Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

If you’d like to feel more confident that your pricing strategies are serving you as they should, a CTS study will help you either gain the assurance you need or highlight how and where you can improve pricing. Imagine if you could stop those losses with a few strategic changes and turn those orders and customers into profit generators.

Negotiating Skills 89

Negotiating Skills Purchasing Skills Cost Reduction Analysis 89

FourKites

JANUARY 7, 2021

To reach this point, organizations need to ensure that their people are not only trained to perform in the job but also equipped with the right tools and processes to bolster their chances of success. They invest in new technologies and data-driven processes that allow them to exercise precise control over the business.

Supply Chain Planning Software 52

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 15, 2019

Jan Cirullies, head of logistics at the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering (ISST) in Germany, says one of the main applications for AR in warehouses is to support operational processes, either as a permanent tool or a temporary aid.

Supply Chain Design Software 54

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Modeling Software Supply Chain Software 54

Conger

MAY 6, 2019

To put it in terms of how Toyota’s Lean Management journey is furthered through the Toyota dealer network: “The objective of the Toyota Lean Management journey with our participating dealers is to enhance the culture and tools made globally famous by the Toyota Production System in our customer facing channels.

Waste Reduction 59

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Conger

JULY 28, 2022

How to Measure Warehouse Safety. How Safe Are Warehouses? How to Measure Warehouse Safety. Otherwise, how will you know if things got better, worse, or stayed the same? Near misses provide insight into the factors that led to the unsafe incident and provide a framework for how to fix them. Let’s dive in!

Tips 52

Tips Material Savings Training Materials Handling 52

Conger

MAY 6, 2019

To put it in terms of how Toyota’s Lean Management journey is furthered through the Toyota dealer network: “The objective of the Toyota Lean Management journey with our participating dealers is to enhance the culture and tools made globally famous by the Toyota Production System in our customer facing channels.

Waste Reduction 40

Waste Reduction Inventory Reduction Material Savings Sourcing Strategies 40

GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

We also included some other tips successful folks do before 8 am and right before bed to stay as optimized as possible, including a few productivity tools. This gives them the chance to focus on how to make their business more efficient while still on the train or having breakfast. Accurate reporting can be on mobile devices.

Optimization Software 54

Optimization Software After-sales Exercises ERP 54

Automotive Logistics

MAY 24, 2018

Making secure software is not simply about tools and technologies, Römmele cautions. “It It depends on people and how they behave,” he observes. Internal guidelines spell out how to address risks and test fixes. Today, bugs crop up in the same scattered fashion, but in shorter order. “If Focusing on binaries.

Supply Chain Design Software 50

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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. “I would begin my shift at 2 p.m.

Presentation 79

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

So, for instance, SKUs commonly ordered together are located close to one another. So, it’s that, along with the visibility improvement from creating a more ordered warehouse interior, which reduces the frequency of picking errors. So let’s move on and look at how to do it. Faster Picking – Fewer Mistakes.

Production 92

Production Inventory Reduction Cost Reduction Resource Reduction 92

The Logistics Academy

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Another trend is learning how to deal with the avalanche of data that supply chain managers have at their fingertips. On the more traditional side, evaluating where and how to position inventory to serve both online and brick-and-mortar retail customers is a big logistics issue. It is also an exercise in trade-offs.

Supply Chain Design Software 40

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The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Rather than being a fairly high-level summary of the research findings (as the original book was), the Practice Guide is what the title suggests: A step-by-step guide of how to practice and what to practice. I’m going to go through the book pretty much in order, with the section and chapter titles as headers. This makes sense.

Material Savings 236

Material Savings Examples Resource Reduction Price Reduction 236

Talking Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2019

req’d) Class 8 orders: December dips, but 2018 sets new record (FleetOwner) Port Truck Drivers Awarded Nearly $6 Million; Drivers’ Manager Held Personally Responsible For Wage Theft Due to Misclassification as Independent Contractors. is using AI-aided mechanical arms to help sort clothing orders.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 60

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The challenge is to measure profitability to the right level of detail in order to see what works and what could be improved. Efficient order terms. Ordering and cash collection. If profits start to decline afterwards, your CTS data can offer valuable information about what changed and how to get back on track.

Purchasing Skills 88

Purchasing Skills Cost Reduction Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software 88

Logistics Bureau

MAY 31, 2021

The tips in this article will help you know how to identify the customers, products, and processes that might be inflating your cost to serve (CTS) unnecessarily. That’s a strong indicator that improvements are there for the taking, but you need to exercise care in how you go about it. Equipment use. Storage of the SKU.

Cost Reduction 117

Cost Reduction Purchasing Skills Expense Reduction Inventory Reduction 117

GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2015

The manufacturer has access to the distributor’s inventory data and is responsible for generating purchase orders. To further define it, let’s look at 2 business models: Under the typical business model : When a distributor needs product, they place an order against a manufacturer. The distributor maintains the inventory plan.

Vendor Strategies 96

Vendor Strategies Inventory Reduction Cost Reduction Waste Reduction 96

GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 29, 2015

We then followed that with the wildly popular " 7 Strategic Performance Business Practices with 3PL KPIs and 4 KPI Problems to Solve " and shared how to use the S.M.A.R.T. The 4PL built a new routing tool specifically for Whirlpool that offered overall cost optimization and mode selection. What core Logistics KPIs would you track?

Case Study 93

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

The port of Long Beach has since adopted it and the tool is available to other ports, according to Nagle. It is an academic exercise to speculate …but there are some big dollars at stake here.”. Do they care that it takes two days to install an accessory that they ordered? Are you nimble where you need to be nimble?

Supply Chain Planning Software 39

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