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The Power of Outsourcing for Supply Chain Improvement

Logistics Bureau

So, for example, outsourcing sales activity is not typically a good idea if yours is a retail sales company. Read on to learn how you can make your supply chain function with less cost, greater efficiency, and improved customer service —or perhaps all three—by handing off some relevant activities to an external contractor.

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Using Data to Improve Supply Chain Operations

Material Handling and Logistics

Learn how to organize your data operations in alignment with supply chain strategy. Complex supply chains generate more data, which companies can use to drive greater efficiency or engage in innovation that disrupts an entire industry—think Amazon. It arrives from an array of sources, and it is presented in a variety of formats.

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Supply Chain Design Crosses the Chasm

Logistics Viewpoints

Pop up warehouses, micro fulfillment centers, and warehousing-on-demand are all examples of how the nodes are becoming increasingly dynamic. However, with the new generation technologies, it now is practical to keep the data feeds fresh to make the modeling exercises a continuous, ongoing discipline.

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The Counter to Constant Supply Chain Volatility Is Pervasive Visibility and Industry Collaboration

Logistics Viewpoints

There is now a robust and growing market for real time transportation visibility solutions, which help shippers, carriers and the entire ecosystem run more cost-effective and efficient logistics operations. Until we have this kind of pervasive visibility, inventory management will continue to be largely an exercise in futility.

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Reimagining Logistics: Focusing on What’s Ahead, Not What Happened

Logistics Viewpoints

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.

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Energy and Labour Costs: 2 Top Warehousing Challenges in 2023

Logistics Bureau

Of course, there is no quick and easy way to curb increases in the cost of energy and labour, but now is an excellent time to start thinking about practical ways to reduce energy usage and increase labour productivity and efficiency. Is Our Warehouse Lighting Energy Efficient?

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5 Recommendations towards a Resilient S&OP

Logistics Viewpoints

As product flows rapidly shifted and hard baked assumptions about lead times and sourcing locations were put to test, users across many organizations bypassed their planning systems and turned to excel sheets, internal data science teams or non-traditional supply chain vendors who could deliver AI based solutions at a faster turn.