GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

We continue our series on strategic shipping by going into detail of the 10 main areas that shippers can turn to in order to have a strategic logistics and transportation management mindset. 6 Benefits of Using the Right Data in Logistics & Transportation Management for Continuous Improvement. Order Processing Capabilities.

Data 91

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Material Handling and Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Learn how to organize your data operations in alignment with supply chain strategy. Today’s supply chains are increasingly complex, driving logistics operations to invest billions in systems to manage all the moving parts. Mistrust of data and analytics tools is not just a supply chain and logistics issue.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

How to Improve Lighting Control It’s common for warehouse spaces to sit under artificial lighting even when or where it’s not strictly necessary. For example, could some areas of your warehouse be adapted via racking optimisation to store higher inventory volumes?

Cost Reduction 107

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GoShip Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

Materials, machinery, and other physical goods are all delivered through freight services, whether it is in-house or through third-party logistics. Exercise patience when asking freight providers to take on new lanes. Exercise patience when asking freight providers to take on new lanes. Communicate in a timely manner.

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ShipLilly

AUGUST 5, 2021

Examples include port fires, inclement weather, and labor disputes. How to reduce or avoid port congestion surcharges? The first thing is to consider the discretion exercised by the shipping companies when calculating the congestion surcharge. They claim that there are so many unforeseen circumstances that they must consider.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Within this discipline, one of the toughest challenges is how to get visibility to problems arising across the extended supply network. The company had access to huge amounts of trade data, for example. But the further up the supply chain BD went, the less incentive suppliers had to participate in these exercises.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

The demand planner must engage sales, marketing, finance, and logistics colleagues to gather the required data. So it’s easy to see how vital it is for the demand planner to communicate and collaborate effectively with the functional stakeholders who own the necessary data. The Supply Chain Head. The Executive Sponsor.

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FourKites

JANUARY 7, 2021

Emphasizing agile and lean logistics management will allow you to outperform slower competitors through the ability to make informed decisions on the fly, rather than relying on gut instinct or incomplete information. Logistics managers today must contend with a growing number of unforeseen factors and disruptions.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

So how can you be sure you’re getting the best freight rates possible? 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.

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The Logistics Academy

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Faculty members from some of the leading logistics education programs share their thoughts on how higher education is preparing tomorrow’s professionals for the challenges ahead. Q: What are the latest trends in logistics education, and how does your program address them?

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 15, 2020

As restrictions on movement are lifted in the UK, stakeholders need to be ever more vigilant, exercising due diligence to ensure that they maintain security, in what is predicted to be a very active period of cargo theft. The post TT Club Supports UK Crime Agency Targeting Cargo Theft appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 15, 2019

In the automotive logistics sector, a number of vehicle-makers and logistics service providers have been prompted to investigate the potential of technology such as glasses or goggles that can overlay a heads-up display onto a normal view of the world.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

As you’ll know, if you follow our blog regularly, Logistics Bureau does a great deal of work related to supply chain strategy development and alignment. For example, you don’t want to assume that a single logistics strategy and service approach will meet all your customers’ needs. It may do, but how do you know?

Inventory Reduction 106

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The Logistics Academy

AUGUST 21, 2016

For example, they are dealing with slowing store sales and are closing stores. It is not fulfillment exercise of shipping quickly from distribution centers. It is about the supply chain and how to move products through it—not just ship from warehouses. The change is expanding from mass merchandising to tailored direct selling.

Supply Chains 40

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you follow our blog, you’ll know that we often post articles about logistics outsourcing. In this article, we will revisit the logistics outsourcing topic by looking at the various reasons companies fall back on to justify a decision to outsource logistics or keep it in-house.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2019

Outbound Logistics: Keeping Customers Satisfied. For example, if speedy delivery is a part of your service strategy (which is often the case in today’s on-demand environment), you will either need to locate your warehouses close to customers, or close to the facilities of your preferred carriers. How reliable are your suppliers?

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Excessive costs can hide anywhere in your company’s service provision or supply chain functions, including manufacturing, logistics, distribution, and customer service. If you haven’t done a segmentation exercise, that would be a positive first step towards understanding customer profitability. In short, you can’t.

Negotiating Skills 89

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Sabinext

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

In my last article of 2018, “ Which Trends Will Change the Rules of Logistics in 2019? ”, I talked briefly about urban logistics and megacities. I want to dedicate my first article of the year to take a closer look at the specific consequences of urbanization and how they can be approached. So how can this be solved?

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 26, 2018

For example, because of time constraints, most transactionally-driven procurement events rarely—if ever—require prospective suppliers to stress test the systems they are considering. After you’ve narrowed down your list to a few finalists, test them and see how they perform. It’s important to press for in-depth answers and examples.

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Logistics Marketing Advisors

JUNE 20, 2018

For example, if you regularly share information with your list using a marketing automation tool like HubSpot, you can easily determine who is and isn’t interacting with your content. This means, for example, no pre-selected checkboxes on forms. Now, let’s address the letter versus the spirit of the law using an example.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

If you browse through the Logistics Bureau blog, you’ll find at least two or three articles—and about the same number of videos—that cover warehouse product slotting. For example, slotting strategies often involve placing the fastest-moving SKUs close to the warehouse dispatch zones, minimising picking operatives’ travel distances and times.

Production 92

Production Inventory Reduction Cost Reduction Resource Reduction 92

Talking Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2019

Then how about joining our Logistics Leaders for T1D Cure cycling team and help us raise money for JDRF in our quest to create a world without type 1 diabetes! Did you make any New Year’s Resolutions for 2019? Are you’re still looking for a personal challenge this year? Our goal is to raise at least $80K this year and have 10+ riders.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 60

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247 Customs Broker

JUNE 6, 2018

Because an understanding of the opposing forces of economies and diseconomies of scale is necessary for shippers and carriers to know how to strike the right balance in their transportation planning. The modern assembly line is the best example of this. For example, compare a 3’x 3’x3’ container with a 6’x 6’x 6’ container.

Purchasing Skills 28

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Whether that is the case or not, a brief study of the origins and progression of fleet route optimisation, covering the last three decades or so and looking forward to the near future, highlights in a spectacular way how technology, in particular, has revolutionised the business of logistics.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For example, a big-box retailer that started to build out its pickup services, it delivery services, and so on, so that when the world pivoted, and stores were closed, but people still wanted this retailer’s products, it already had all of that investment there. Consumers are looking for more durable products.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 31, 2021

If yours is one of those businesses shifting from traditional to online retail, you’ve probably faced some of the logistical challenges arising from the need to deliver your customers’ purchases to them. For example: Compared to selling a product in-store, the cost to deliver that same item as a small parcel can be several times higher.

Cost Reduction 117

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 24, 2018

Internal guidelines spell out how to address risks and test fixes. Jarvis doesn’t just tell you the issue, it tells you how to remediate it, where it is and gets everything ready for the supplier,” Boulton adds. If they’ve been riding on the system thinking it’s going to remain a trust exercise forever, that has now changed.”.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Even if you simplify your product range and your upstream suppliers, you still have to deal with the ramifications of diverse customers, their expectations, their location and the logistics needed to meet their requirements. Logistics costs are often a big contributor to overall Cost to Serve. Picking and packing. Returns management.

Purchasing Skills 88

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 5, 2020

Creating supply chain resilience is a holistic exercise that involves more than just a few savvy logistics people. How then to build a strategy? As mentioned, this should not be an exercise limited to supply chain professionals. Unpredictable is not a reason to be unprepared. licenses, documentation, permits, etc.),

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2015

Now that you know how to get a supplier day conference and are collaborating with your suppliers better, it’s time to have a value analysis exercise. Comparing these costs to an item of a similar function, how much should each function and the total cost? This example, the pencil, is already a high value item).

Vendor Strategies 96

Vendor Strategies Inventory Reduction Cost Reduction Waste Reduction 96

Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

One example is the port of Los Angeles, which has worked with GE Transportation and last year introduced a cloud-based port optimiser that provides real-time information on cargo through a single portal that is made available to all the partners involved in the processing of it. Take service parts as an example.

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