Distribution Exercises Ordering Transportation 
Logistics Viewpoints
JUNE 26, 2023
The second goal was to work with a fourth party logistics (4PL) partner that had invested in cutting-edge transportation management and visibility solutions. A 4PL is a company that plans and executes transportation on behalf of their customers. The company chose 4Flow to do transportation planning and execution in Europe.
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 22, 2023
Moreover, this exercise might need to be repeated several times depending on how the war proceeds. Let’s replace “people” with “customer orders”, “family members” with “SKUs” and “housing” with “distribution locations” and you have the components of a common supply chain design problem.
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Logistics Business Magazine
MARCH 20, 2023
In a great many retail businesses Costs-To-Serve are treated as though they are a fixed overhead and allocated evenly across orders, when in reality they vary by the individual characteristics of each order – channel, geography, the nature of the goods, the behaviour of the customer, and so on.
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 26, 2022
The pursuit of ever higher efficiency and speed have dominated transformation initiatives for more than forty years, driven in large part by the assumption that raw materials, commodities, warehouse space, transportation capacity and labor will be plentiful and immediately available at stable and often declining cost.
Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 5, 2021
They roast all their coffee in a roast-to-order production process. In DSD, instead of shipping truckload quantities of goods directly to a retailer’s regional distribution center every few weeks, a manufacturer has their own account representatives that sell to and service individual stores.
Locus
JANUARY 10, 2024
Read Also: What Is Economic Order Quantity and What Are Its Challenges? Exercising Cost Control: Lastly, shelf replenishment is all about managing costs efficiently. If these stores require separate stocks to fulfill online, offline, or omnichannel orders , the complexity escalates significantly. What is Shelf Replenishment?
Airfreight Logistics
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
Volga-Dnepr Group together with its strategic partners has gained a comprehensive competence in vaccine transportations to increase confidence among the customers in the air freight services.” ” The post Volga-Dnepr’s Cargo Supermarket Offering Delivers Insulin from Milan to Chicago appeared first on Airfreight Logistics.
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