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Study: mixed consumer sentiment on home deliveries

Logistics Business Magazine

Descartes Systems Group , a global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, has released the results of a consumer sentiment study of ecommerce home delivery. To learn more, read the full study: Descartes Research Report: Ecommerce—Is Retailer Fulfilment and Delivery Performance Keeping Up with Sales Growth?

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What is a “Socio-Technical System?”

The Lean Thinker

Lately the term “socio-technical system has been starting to show up more and I thought this would be an opportunity to weigh in on what I think it means. People who try to describe the meaning tend to describe a system “that integrates the social and technical aspects” or words like that. The Long Wall Method.

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This Indonesian Food Giant Reached 95% On-Time Delivery with Locus

Locus

For over four decades, FKS Group has carved out a robust presence in South-East Asia’s business landscape. With integrations with intelligent fleet tracking, FKS Group’s dispatchers are now able to monitor the status and estimated arrival time for each vehicle in real-time. The result?

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Supply chain challenges in the luxury goods market

Logistics Business Magazine

This is one of the conclusions from the recent study “Personal luxury: Supply Chain challenges & how to prepare for the future”, developed by Arvato Supply Chain Solutions in cooperation with the international strategy consultancy Roland Berger. Turning challenges into opportunities.

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How E-commerce Warehouse Operations can be Optimized with Dispatch Management Software

Locus

An end-to-end dispatch management system plays a critical role in streamlining the dispatch process, making it more efficient, and reducing the risk of human error, leading to overall improvement in on-time delivery rates. Many DMP systems lack the capability to manage driver information, including driver schedules, delivery routes, and more.

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TWI: Is it Time to Rethink Job Relations?

The Lean Thinker

Transactional Relationships within a work group This model embeds some tacit assumptions including: If everyone does their job, we get the result we want. Their goal, their objective, is to head off threats to the status-quo or to restore the status quo. We have two groups that are identical. Consider this hypothetical.

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Savvy Supply Chain Leaders Aren’t Letting a Good Downturn Go to Waste

Logistics Viewpoints

A famous 2010 HBR article, “Roaring Out of Recession,” studied how 4,700 public companies fared during the recessions of 1980, 1990, and 2000. With real-time data on the status of orders, shipment tracking, and delivery confirmation you can optimize your order fulfillment process to reduce lead times and delays in collecting payments.