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Sales Saboteur with Ann Holm

The Logistics of Logistics

Have been working with Joe Lynch helping transportation and logistics companies grow their sales. [02:56] The strategies there to help us meet the three basic needs of independence, acceptance, and security by asserting, earning, or avoiding. [06:19] How does that hold me back when it comes to sales? Saboteur assessment: [link].

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Sales and Operations Planning: The Interpersonal Element

Logistics Bureau

Has your company ever suffered problems with, implemented, or even considered implementing a sales and operations (S&OP) planning process? More to the point, though, for S&OP to be effective, it matters not whether a company uses Excel spreadsheets or the latest best-of-breed sales and operations planning software.

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Sustaining National Defence – logistics investment in the National Defence Strategy

Logistics in War

In fact, Defence’s logistics capability was in a long-term ‘secular’ decline which followed four decades of sales of infrastructure, commercialisation and outsourcing, and successive force structure programs and plans which harvested the ‘tail’ to, it was thought, the ‘teeth’. Before this time, the situation was grim.

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Omnichannel Retail and the Cost to Serve Online Customers

Logistics Bureau

Let’s begin with a look at why, in general, retailers with multiple sales channels are more likely to experience difficulties in reducing cost-to-serve. If it were simply the fact that online sales typically involve home delivery, then omnichannel sellers would have no more cost-to-serve challenges than their pure-play online competitors.

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Mars Wrigley’s Highly Successful Supply Chain Digital Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

Demand sensing involves the use of the external data sources – particularly the latest sales and market data – to improve short-term forecasting and then be able to use that improved understanding of consumer behavior to improve their supply planning. These codes were put into SAP after an order cut had occurred.

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Leverage freight data for confident demand planning

FreightWaves SONAR

Short-term planning is much easier: Internal sales numbers and weekly survey or scan data tell us what immediate demand is doing, and it can be a relatively simple task to adjust freight flows up or down in response to those demand signals. Will ports experiencing congestion remain clogged or will they clear up before peak season?

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High Ocean Freight Rates Might Spoil Holiday Season Shopping This Year

Turvo

In such tricky times, exercising forward-thinking and planning shipments in advance can help businesses take advantage of the holiday season. The terminal, a critical operating point of the world’s third busiest container port, was shut for about two weeks since August 11 after a dock worker was tested positive for Covid-19.

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