Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

If you have not yet tackled the question of ethics in procurement, now is a great time to start. It does not matter whether you are a procurement professional, internal customer, external customer, senior executive, or supplier. Procurement is what sets entire supply chains and their organisations in motion.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2023

Infor is one example of a supplier that offers both advanced visibility and supply chain planning. A multi-enterprise supply chain network provides visibility to upstream and downstream events that can affect a company’s supply chain. Visibility to Events. There is a vintage television commercial for Reese’s Peanut Butter cups.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 2, 2018

Those are some of the questions I discussed with Tim Dalton, Director of Professional Services at BluJay Solutions in a recent episode of Talking Logistics. As the dust has settled in Q1 of this year, many shippers have now gone out to bid through procurement processes. Procurement’s Not the Only Answer. percent. “If

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

For example, they might browse products online, but visit a brick-and-mortar store to finalize their selection. Navigating an Increasingly Challenging Logistics Landscape. It’s challenging for logistics providers to keep up, even in perfect supply chain conditions. due to the higher costs associated with online selling.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 5, 2021

After experiencing an incredibly challenging two years in the global logistics industry, I think we can let go of any expectation that the supply chain landscape will ever return to “normal.” As I write this in the fourth quarter of 2021, there’s just no telling what the new year will bring in terms of emerging logistics challenges.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 8, 2022

Emerge has an interesting new platform to deal with the problems shippers are having procuring truck capacity. It has spot procurement functionality that you would see in a transportation management system (TMS), and the request for proposal (RFP) functionality you would see in contract planning or procurement solutions.

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Transporeon

JANUARY 25, 2018

In the case of an Amway multivitamin, for example, the company controls the process “from seed to supplement,” transporting raw materials to manufacturing sites in the U.S., The company began searching for a better way to procure freight and manage bids. We needed very little support,” says Clark. “We

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Buying organizations use this technology to monitor and analyze supplier risk events in real-time. These are big data platforms that monitor news sources and assorted databases from governments, financial institutions, ESG NGOs, and other sources to detect when a negative event has occurred or may be about to occur.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

in turn, is a boutique procurement consultancy. Professionals from procurement, compliance, logistics, sustainability, information-security and several other internal stakeholder all use the solution for different reasons. This intermediate step is more related to Procurement and supply chain transparency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Risk events that happen in one part of the supply chain can cause a disruptive effect that is amplified multi-fold given the complex connectivity of labor, raw materials, and capacity. The bullwhip effect is one example of this disruptive effect, when small changes in demand cause huge demand spikes downstream.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In a recent survey by Procurement Leaders , 54% of the CPOs reported that they have regular touchpoints with the CEO and are considered a key stakeholder. In conjunction with the new product launches, phasing out existing products and components is another area where supply chain and procurement need to work together.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

To ensure that more truck drivers are back home in the evening, for example, the forwarding association Elvis wants to set up a meeting network for full truck loads. The best of the best also differentiate their recruitment strategy – for example, according to generations or potential groups such as newcomers or foreign workers.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Editor's Note: Today's blog is the second part of Chuck Intrieri's series on how procurement and suppliers can avoid issues with their contracts. Procurement and suppliers often assume that small print is highly complicated legal jargon that is both boring and largely irrelevant.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

And agility is about reacting quickly and hopefully effectively to the actual disruptive event. But the event might not be disruptive at all if you had planned for it. But procurement says, ‘well, we’re not going to tell the supplier that because we have this volume-based discount. Very simple situation.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 26, 2018

I was having lunch with a friend of mine who had recently conducted a transportation sourcing event. At first, he didn’t like my honest response: “Jim, you’re using a commodity-oriented procurement process for selecting your carriers and third-party providers. Third, many procurement processes suffer from confirmation bias.

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CLX Logistics

JULY 26, 2021

Here are the main features of modern supply chain analytics solutions and services that help shippers optimize freight procurement, bidding, and benchmarking. Next-generation supply chain management tools like CLX LaneLogix are a perfect example of the type of system. Procurement Event Strategies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The surging Delta virus, devastating floods in China and Germany and cyber attacks on South African ports are amongst the latest in a series of events that continue to send shock waves throughout the system. In light of all of this, I’d posit we can no longer look at the events of the last year as an aberration. The impact?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. It includes all of its elements: customers, sales channels, products, warehouses, logistics network, and the interactions between them. Maintaining all past and future promotional events in a database.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 7, 2020

Lessons can come from extrapolating what we witness every day; from events that capture tangible and intangible aspects of sustaining normal life. The impact of this turbulence on essentially fragile national logistics, commerce and industry capability is starkly evident and has forced the nation to consider its national resilience.

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Ship Monk

JUNE 9, 2023

Is distribution logistics the same thing as fulfillment logistics? When we’re distributing inventory across multiple warehouses, we’re dabbling in distribution logistics. But first and foremost, we’re fulfillment logistics experts. What is Logistics? Is a distribution center the same thing as a fulfillment center?

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Freightos

JANUARY 25, 2024

Aimee Loshinsky January 25, 2024 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo In Freightos Q4 2023 KPI press release , we announced that the company surpassed one million bookings across the platform in 2023. The industry is taking digitalization seriously.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

As demand for last mile logistics intensifies, warehouses become the prime candidates for automation. American Supply Chain Resilience Act and the German Supply Chain Act are just two examples of this. This is creating the need to shrink the time between identification of a sourcing need and executing on a sourcing event.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For example, some carriers shared with us their APIs for contract rates, others for spot rates, some for rates but not ebooking, others share APIs via third parties who charge an exorbitant price for accessing the API. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and has authored various articles, papers, and patents.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 3, 2023

Whilst they are classed as indirect purchases, this procurement category plays an essential role in day-to-day operations. So, when geopolitical events and the pandemic struck, things that you were expecting to happen, didn’t happen. The post SDI and the MRO Supply Chain appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Let us take the example of direct materials, i.e., materials that are used as components in making a finished product, such as a hard drive or RAM in a personal computer. In our experience, by embracing digitalization of sourcing operations, organizations are able to uncover double digit percentage savings from sourcing events.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2021

Third-party data – One example of the advantage of this category concerns third-party forecast data. Network analytics – A good example of this occurs with public cloud transportation management systems (TMS). Because it is not a new market at all, it involves a rebranding of markets that already exist.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Supply Chain and Logistics Knowledge. However, in the wake of the pandemic, with ecommerce demand ballooning as it is, an injection of supply chain and logistics knowledge can generate a much-needed marketplace advantage. There are, of course, several ways to achieve a logistics knowledge infusion. Product Availability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Workers from picking and packing to planning and procurement are in short supply, stimulating interest in increasing productivity of the existing workforce. Consider a planner in Brazil working with the previous lead time prediction example, who has forgotten how to update the parameters.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JULY 24, 2023

As the industry struggles to recover from the unprecedented global events of 2020, recognizing budget limitations is essential for industry growth and success. The costs of logistics as a ratio of total expenses are too significant to ignore. In most industries, supply chain logistics account for 5% to 50% of a product’s total cost.”

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 26, 2021

For example, the United States Government’s imposition of tariffs speaks for itself, even if former President Trump hadn’t repeatedly told companies to bring manufacturing home. On the other, it’s unwise to underestimate the costs of switching procurement from one country to another. Germany’s Pullback From China.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. The processing units in an oil refinery, for example, operate at high temperature and high pressure. One example of the value of machine learning in demand planning comes from Mahindra & Mahindra. These constraints need to be understood.

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Now, That's Logistics

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The supply chain has been choked by so many events,” it continues, “such as the Suez Canal blockage, and market dynamics like labor shortages and the spike in transportation costs that it feels like there’s been one ‘black swan’ event after another.”. Re-starting has been much more difficult,” Bloomberg points out.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 20, 2019

This article delves into the changes that new commercial business models, customer expectations, and technology are bringing about in the logistics environment, focusing particularly on how those changes are impacting the planning, procurement, design, layout, and operation of distribution centres.

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Freightos

APRIL 27, 2023

In this article, Eytan Buchman, Freightos’ CMO, discusses the importance of data and context in global freight and logistics. But let’s get back to global freight data Global logistics has always had a dual relationship with data. Legibility, followed by analysis and the ability to take action can literally change industries.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Rob O’Byrne makes an early start with his round-up of supply chain and logistics trends that might make industry headlines in the coming year. His observations include trends in first and last-mile logistics, and the increase in SMEs entering global markets. 2020 Supply Chain and Logistics Trends: What’s Around the Corner?

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

At Logistics Bureau, we want to help you with that, so we’re publishing this brief guide to help you if you haven’t already included freight benchmarking in your management strategies or want to benchmark more effectively than you are now. Alternatively, you can procure access to a digital freight benchmarking platform.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It’s a random approach in which, for example, a consignment of electric blenders might find a home in a storage location between bottles of shampoo on one side, and dog collars on the other. As you can deduce from Amazon’s example, there is no standard for an optimal warehouse layout. What Next for Toyota IM?

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