Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Perfect order results can help you assess performance and diagnose issues impacting service, costs, and overall supply chain effectiveness. Accurate documentation: This metric tracks the percentage of sales orders accompanied by accurate documents throughout the process. How to Calculate Inventory Days of Supply.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

One of the challenges of ethical procurement is to know how to make it into a practical reality that people can apply in a consistent way. For example, how would you deal with the following situations in procurement? Your Italian company is negotiating the supply of aerospace products to a government in Asia.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The challenge, of course, is finding the right balance — that is, figuring out how to meet peak demand volumes without building out a network that goes under-utilized the remaining 11 months of the year. Maybe they’ll do better in 2018. And with that, have a happy weekend! Song of the Week: “Two High” by Moon Taxi.

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Conger

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Reliable suppliers with quality supply practices achieve better operational performance in quality, flexibility, reliability, cost, and design. Although there can be a temptation to "chase" the best prices to far-flung places, a local/domestic supplier is a great choice to reduce lead times. Reduce costs.

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GoShip Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping offers a cost-effective approach to transporting packages along your supply chain. Examples include missing freight, delivery delays, damaged products, hidden charges, ambiguous documentation, poor contract terms, and limited carrier networks.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 12, 2022

With direct and indirect materials making up at least 50% of typical manufacturing costs, the procurement function could be re-imagined so companies can be more responsive to customer demands and more agile when dealing with supply chain challenges. They have a contract with a supplier who delivers on time, and who charges acceptable prices.

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Stord

JANUARY 26, 2021

Instead of every company building and managing their IT infrastructure from scratch, cloud computing offers computing power, storage and databases as they’re needed without the cost of owning and operating physical data centers and servers.

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TransAudit

MAY 23, 2022

As a business owner, you must keep costs as low as possible and find savings where they exist. When you partner with Trans Audit for a parcel audit, we will do the heavy lifting by automatically auditing your shipping invoices and other documentation. Carriers may not always apply the rates you’ve negotiated.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

That would enable the printing of manifests and proof-of-delivery documents by shipment, to be issued to the delivery crews the following day, and the picking documents for the warehouse. It’s hard to imagine that many still need to shuffle paper documents around using pigeonholes.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 9, 2016

The are the 8 Rights of Lean Transportation thinking: Right Materials, Right Quantity, Right time, Right Place, Right Source, Right Price, Right Quantity, and. Rather, going beyond customer expectations needs to be fully understood, and transportation strategies then developed to meet those expectations with optimal inventory levels.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

The cost-effective concept allows a single mobile base to tend to one or many carts that can have a variety of onboard items, including packages, materials, or even robot arms. Sellers have a difficult time deciding which SKUs to locate where, and how to dynamically manage them in a changing marketplace where demand is uncertain.

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