Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2023

But, how can you drive efficiency, and accuracy whilst saving time in your supply chain with on-time in full strategies? How can you ensure that you’re succeeding in this area? It all comes down to your on-time in full strategies. On this page, we’ll take a close look at OTIF, its benefits, and how you can improve yours.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In an increasingly unpredictable world environment, practices for planning and forecasting inventory levels that worked in the past need to be reviewed. In the 1990s, APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) arose as a solution for making better decisions about inventory. Inventory optimization.

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Locus

JUNE 23, 2023

So, knowing more about order fulfillment, its importance, process, and strategies is critical. With an efficient order fulfillment process, businesses can reduce their shipping costs and improve their turnaround times which helps them increase their sales and revenue. How many orders am I currently shipping? Let’s fill in!

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EazyStock

MARCH 4, 2021

How to Increase Inventory Turnover with Inventory Optimization. The concept of inventory optimization helps many businesses improve their inventory turnover – without damaging stock availability. This post will explain how, but first, let’s deal with a few simple definitions. Prioritize your inventory.

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FourKites

DECEMBER 11, 2020

What is inventory carrying cost? Inventory carrying cost, or more simply referred to as “carrying cost,” is the sum of all the costs associated with holding inventory or stock in storage or warehouse. Inventory carrying costs are something that anyone who sells a physical product has to deal with. Inventory Service Cost.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In an increasingly unpredictable world environment, practices for planning and forecasting inventory levels that worked in the past need to be reviewed. In the 1990s, APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) arose as a solution for making better decisions about inventory. Inventory optimization.

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3PL Links

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Unlocking Customer Satisfaction: Is Your Fulfilment Strategy Aligned with Expectations? Labor, inventory accuracy, and split shipping are a few examples. Let’s start with inventory deployment and demand forecasts. Sending orders to a few drop shipping companies and distribution facilities was no longer sufficient.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 6, 2022

In today’s business world, the success of a firm depends not only on its sales but also on the ability to manage its supply network and ensure it has the inventory it needs to deliver customer orders. Since 2000, businesses have implemented programs such as just-in-time (JIT) inventory and lean operations to improve profitability.

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EazyStock

MARCH 3, 2022

In the early 1980s, just in time supply chain management emerged as a way for businesses to reduce stock levels and only hold items that were needed to fulfill known orders. In this post, we explain how you can implement a just-in-case stock management strategy without the risk of tying up too much capital in unnecessary inventory items.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 30, 2022

In this post, we explain what those pillars are, why they matter, and how to align them in a way that supports supply chain management excellence. Our three pillars (or fundamentals) of great supply chain management excellence are strategy, service, and cost. For example: Alignment of strategy and cost leads to happy shareholders.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Three rules are really important in inventory management. Excess inventory. 3) Draft an Inventory Policy. If you don’t have an inventory policy: 1) You won’t get consensus. Three rules are really important in inventory management. Let’s look at an example. Reduce the Inventory, Make Significant Savings.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2021

Among the universal challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed upon the supply chain management profession is the question of inventory, specifically, “how much is enough?”. It wasn’t long ago that businesses were asking, “By how much can I reduce my levels of inventory?”. Let’s Start with Safety Stock.

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Ship Monk

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Back then you didn’t need to know about holding costs because Mom and Dad let you store your inventory for free. What is Inventory Holding Cost? Holding cost (or carrying cost) by definition, is the cost of holding inventory in a warehouse until it is sold or removed. carrying costs, and needed to learn what those are.

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EazyStock

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Inventory Control Techniques that use Stock Optimization Best Practices. There are hundreds of inventory control blog posts on how to organize warehouses, track goods and pick and pack efficiently. Firstly, let’s get a few definitions: What is inventory control? 6 Inventory Control Techniques to Optimize Stock Levels.

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Blue Grace Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

How to decide if you should invest in a drop trailer program. Need to reduce loading and unloading time : Many shippers pay a heavy cost for detention due to wait time and excessive loading and unloading time. For example, perishable goods cannot be shipped using drop trailers due to limited shelf life.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

How much are you spending on manufacturing, shipping, marketing, customer support, logistics services, and order fulfillment services? You never want to cut corners on these, or any, crucial areas of your ecommerce brand. For example, ShipMonk customizes logistics services and associated fees to the unique needs of every client.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This is the second part of my series on various ways to reduce overall costs as it relates to logistics and warehouse cost reductions. In the first part I put forth 6 areas of focus in order to reduce logistics costs. Today, I will now address how a focus on inventory will allow for warehouse cost reductions as well.

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EazyStock

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Better Inventory Management for eCommerce. trillion by 2023 , indicating a need for more robust online sales strategies. trillion by 2023 , indicating a need for more robust online sales strategies. For businesses to succeed in eCommerce they must ensure they have an effective eCommerce supply chain strategy.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Forced to implement protective measures through the pandemic, some companies increased overhead by stock piling inventory which negatively affects both cash flow and profits. Manufacturers can use forecasting to support inventory optimization. Managing Inventory. labor, materials and warehousing, to IT, freight and safety.

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EazyStock

MAY 24, 2022

Often, businesses focus on inventory management from a supply chain perspective – holding enough stock to meet customer demand and hitting fulfillment targets. This post, however, will focus on the financial aspect of inventory: inventory value – taking an accountant’s view of how to manage stock effectively.

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EazyStock

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Inventory Management, Business Growth & Expanding Product Portfolios. At EazyStock we talk to a lot of small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) who are struggling to effectively manage their inventory. In this three-part blog series we’re looking at each of these inventory management problems.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2022

This warehouse runs at a perfect optimum with fixed capital in the form of inventory balanced perfectly with sales and purchasing, and all the items perfectly distributed to the various storage areas of the warehouse. Both predictive and retrospective data analyses are key in making fundamental decisions and defining logistics strategies.

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Ship Monk

AUGUST 22, 2022

SKUs are vital to inventory management and the success of any business—as pivotal to operations as a binding agent is to a meatball (i.e. A SKU is a code (typically 8 – 12 alphanumeric digits long) assigned to the items in your inventory. But how exactly is a SKU created and structured? What is a SKU? Creating a SKU.

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EazyStock

MAY 11, 2021

If you’re wondering what is the best way to manage inventory with hundreds or even thousands of SKUs, you’ve found your answer: ABC classification (otherwise known as ABC analysis ). In this post, we’re going to discuss how you can classify your inventory into three ABC categories and introduce the concept of XYZ analysis.

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WorkWave

JANUARY 18, 2021

It’s important to understand how to handle growth because upgrading your small business can be overwhelming. By monitoring these specific facets of your business, you can find the cause of growth and determine how to adapt it to other aspects of the company or capitalize on it through marketing. Know the Cause of Growth.

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3PL Links

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

How to Innovate Your Supply Chain Management: What You Need to Know | Image Source: Axestrack Organizations must prioritize supply chain management and implement strategies to increase its efficiency if they want to compete in the market. How to innovate? The supply chain is crucial in this regard.

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3PL Links

JANUARY 31, 2023

7 Best Tips for Inventory Management To Avoid Losses | Image source: AR Racking Inventory management is likely the most crucial success component if you sell products through an online store. As a result of only investing in an expensive marketing strategy, you immediately miss the point. In a nutshell, a situation to avoid.

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CH Robinson Logistics

DECEMBER 15, 2021

However, with this year’s volatility, I was also given a front-row seat to a new level of hyper collaboration – including individuals going out of their way to help each other, more strategy sessions between shippers and forwarders, and continually leaning into historical data and current market insights to find smarter solutions.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 14, 2024

What if we told you that the right strategy can not only make global order fulfillment affordable, it can also take most of the stress out of it? What does that strategy entail? How to Get Started Opening your ecommerce business to an international market is no small undertaking. At least it has been up until now.

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EazyStock

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Better Inventory Management for eCommerce. As more and more businesses sell online, they are starting to see the impact that eCommerce has on their inventory management operations. In this post we discuss how eCommerce is affecting inventory management strategies. Let’s take a look at each in more detail.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

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. There are several possible ways to eliminate this form of energy wastage.

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Stord

APRIL 11, 2022

The out-of-stock sticker shock we experienced in the past few years is forcing retailers to take a hard look at how they plan inventory. Why Has Inventory Been so Hard to Come By? Near the start of the pandemic, the inventory-to-sales ratio in the U.S. This approach would have an inventory-to-sales ratio of close to 1.0.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 26, 2022

During my undergraduate studies, I took several subjects related to cost accounting, in which we were taught the different methods of valuing inventories, and I thought it would be interesting to explain them briefly in the blog as I find them useful to learn how to value warehouse stock. LIFO (Last in, First Out).

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 5, 2018

For example, a black swan event may include both the physical damage and ongoing disruption caused by a hurricane and subsequent bottlenecks, so shippers that know how to isolate the causes of poor visibility and areas that are likely to contribute to worsening of black swan events can effectively reduce their chances of coming to fruition.

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Ship Monk

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Others take an educated guess and hope for the best, which isn’t a strong strategy either. This article will explain what reorder points are and show you how to calculate them. Ideally, calculating the reorder point for each SKU will ensure that you always have enough inventory on hand to meet demand, while minimizing inventory costs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Rather than just offering consumers the choice of buying online or buying in the store, a retail omnichannel strategy involves a lot more paths to fulfill an order or to process a return. Omnichannel Order Management Systems are Complex For retailers, implementing a sound omnichannel strategy can be difficult.

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EazyStock

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Chinese New Year (aka Lunar New Year) might seem like a long way off, but smart inventory managers will be starting to plan for this event very soon. In this post we look at the challenges brought about by Chinese New Year and how EazyStock can help. For example, how much extra stock do you order to cover your forecasts?

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