Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

As a result, and as we’ve mentioned in several previously published articles, we’ve discovered that many companies lack a defined and documented supply chain strategy. Step 2: Gap Analysis – Customer Requirements and Supply Chain Trends. After all, even extensive articles dedicated to the topic can barely scratch the surface.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Too much leads to resources being monopolised on gathering tons of data and a subsequent risk of “paralysis by analysis” Cost to Serve (CTS) is an approach that helps you avoid both extremes. Besides optimising the present or fixing the past, CTS reporting and analysis opens the door to what-if scenarios and projections.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 2, 2021

For example, you might use simple observation to identify visible defects at goods-in, or you could make your analysis a bit deeper by testing a percentage of items received from the supplier. In procurement, cost analysis is not just about the price of your company’s purchases. Cost per Purchase Order and Cost per Invoice.

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Logistics in War

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Logistics In War has been exploring preparedness and logistics in a series of articles over the last three months. I encourage you to read the article to see the important trend driving the sustainment of militaries at play. Fourthly, the logistics organisation must be exercised and be the subject of experiments which qualify risks.

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Logistics in War

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The ADF’s preparedness prior to this operation has been scrutinised through reports and analysis, at levels range from tactical to committees of Government. This article will describe the impact of strategic resourcing and logistics problems on operations. It’s always a good time to reflect upon messages from the past. Conclusion.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

If you browse through the Logistics Bureau blog, you’ll find at least two or three articles—and about the same number of videos—that cover warehouse product slotting. It also stands to reason that when you undertake a slotting exercise, you should think about it from the perspective of these activities. SKU and Slot Dimensions.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 6, 2020

Moreover, the attitude of commanders and leaders, logisticians and staff planners to comprehensively and critically assess the Defence organisation – a ‘blue force analysis’ – also influences the logistics system to function as intended. I described the interplay between logistics and readiness.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

In this article, I will redress the balance by exploring outsourcing from a more holistic perspective, focusing on ways to consider outsourcing partnerships for improvement throughout the supply chain. However, I can’t recall writing a general guide about exploiting outsourcing opportunities to improve your supply chain.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

In this article, we’ll explain why that should be and how your company can avoid S&OP problems by investing correctly in the people and their interrelationships , without which it’s simply impossible to tie the moving parts of S&OP together. At the beginning of this article, we looked at who’s who in the S&OP process.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

We hope the tips and ideas in this article will help you make inroads into warehouse energy and labour cost reduction. However, in this article, we’ll focus exclusively on the cost factor, drawing your attention to some questions you might ask yourself (and your team) about your facility’s energy usage.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Where to Start with a Product Slotting Analysis To start with, find out which products are picked the most and place them as close as possible to what we call the centre of gravity of the warehouse, where dispatch is situated. To do a proper analysis though, we need to go a bit more in-depth.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

Here is an overview of the most valuable benefits: More informed freight spending: Because freight benchmarking involves the analysis of carriers and the rates paid by companies using them, it gives you an evolving picture of clarity about your freight spending. What Are Your Freight Benchmarking Options?

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 17, 2017

However shocked you may be by the results of a cost-to-serve analysis, avoid the knee-jerk reaction and instead, use your new-found knowledge to turn unprofitable customers and products into profitable ones.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 23, 2018

Rather than using intuition to inform decisions, people often retreat behind analysis to avoid choosing between difficult options. Even if analysis is used to inform judgements, decisions at the highest level will tend to be intuitive and influenced by a range of factors. This article was originally posted in November 2017. [1]

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Logistics in War

MARCH 3, 2018

Exercises undertaken to simulate high-intensity war such as US Pacific Command’s Exercise Pacific Sentry 17-03 highlighted significant force posture challenges that might constrain air (and other) operations against a peer adversary. The best both can do is be adaptable. [i] 2, Routledge, USA, 2006.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2017

Strange as it may seem, many business leaders don’t have the answers to these questions , because they’ve never conducted an exercise to understand the costs involved with supplying their customers. As supply chain mistakes go, neglecting network design analysis is possibly one of the costliest.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 20, 2025

Step 2: Gap Analysis Customer Requirements and Supply Chain Trends Now you know what your customers genuinely expect from your outbound and reverse supply chain, so its time to undertake a gap analysis. Ideally, though, evaluating your position against competitors should not solely be a KPI benchmarking exercise.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 7, 2018

to the complex exercise of pricing. The analysis ripples through the many stages of a supply chain, each of which can have a major impact on the final price of a product. Comment on this article. That, at least, is how Geoff Webb, vice president of product marketing with PROS , sees the application of A.I.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JULY 26, 2013

We conducted a thorough analysis of these concerns & compared results in different geographies. Analysis showed that around 70-80% of issues faced in support could be classified or could be attributed to incorrect Master Data Maintenance & triggered a thought process of "Importance of Proactive Master Data Maintenance".

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

The Path to Cost Reduction: Following a SCOR supply chain benchmarking exercise, AGCO decided to approach its cost reduction and efficiency goals by blending new technology—in the form of a globally integrated transport management system (TMS)—with a commitment to form a partnership with a suitably capable 3PL provider. Procurement analysis.

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Blog on Log

AUGUST 19, 2006

This article does not profess to address all components of creating ‘Intelligent Logistics’. However, in reality most strategic planning exercises neither embed foresight, nor create responsive networks. Last month’s feature article talked about ‘Information Factory’. The periodicity may range from six months to five years.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

If your supply chain network design has not been under the microscope, and you care about business success, it’s probably time to consider the benefits of a design review and optimisation exercise. The use of a methodology known as “cost to serve analysis” often reveals shocking realities about supply chain costs. . .

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2017

As in other domains, data analysis and business intelligence requirements and opportunities are now on the rise. International business practices. Knowledge of laws and regulations. Mechanical skills. Watch out for new positions and skills arriving in supply chain as well.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2018

This article was first published in the July / August 2018 issue of MHD Supply Chain Solutions. Network analysis will be crucial for finding the best configuration of return centres, given factors like retail locations and transport facilities with backhaul possibilities. Tempting, but wrong. Almost everything can change.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 21, 2017

While a number of factors are doubtless contributing to the Kmart demise, only a minor amount of analysis is required to identify supply chain misalignment as being one of the primary issues, which the company has never managed to correct. The Failing Kmart Business Strategy. The first Kmart store opened way back in 1962.

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Logistics in War

JUNE 17, 2018

As part of the ‘Centre of Gravity’ series of papers, the purpose of its analysis of the idea of ‘sovereign defence industry capabilities’ is to provide strategic policy recommendations, of which there are three. [1] This article was originally posted in 2017. 1] These paraphrased points are summarised at Fruhling, S.,

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

In this article, we look at why you might want to collaborate in your logistics, where opportunities lie, what makes collaboration work, and conversely, what makes it fail. Any company that thinks collaboration can work as a “throw it over the wall” exercise is likely to be disappointed. No properly supportive management.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

In this article, outsourcing will refer specifically to transport and warehousing functions. To assist your analysis, examples of industries are plotted on the matrix. It must be a joint exercise. The new supply chain remedy born during the 1970s and 80s and refined over the years as globalization has materialized.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

In this article, we look at why you might want to collaborate in your logistics, where opportunities lie, what makes collaboration work, and conversely, what makes it fail. Any company that thinks collaboration can work as a “throw it over the wall” exercise is likely to be disappointed. No properly supportive management.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 11, 2025

The following text is of a presentation given at a 2019 Wiliams Foundation conference, ‘Sustaining self-reliance’ As the original article cannot be found on other sites, it is provided here with some slight adjustments. It examined the threat to US interests from Russia and China as they applied to its capacity to project power.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you follow our blog, you’ll know that we often post articles about logistics outsourcing. In this article, we will revisit the logistics outsourcing topic by looking at the various reasons companies fall back on to justify a decision to outsource logistics or keep it in-house.

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Logistics in War

AUGUST 28, 2018

This article follows-up last week’s post on logistics in deterrence. . This article examines military power from the position of a theorist who saw geography and logistics as central to his vision of national power. This article was originally published at LIW in early 2018. By David Beaumont. 2] Louth, J., 3] Boulding, K.,

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Overused and misunderstood in blog posts and informative articles, “big data” describes the use of data to improve your operation, which includes shipping, warehousing, and supply chain processes. However, you must exercise caution to make sure you do not damage your vendor-shipper relationship. Metrics and KPIs.

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FLS Transport

AUGUST 6, 2020

And analysis shows the odds of a significant dip are unlikely. And as carriers have options… they are exercising them in search of margins. Read the article here. Now well above March’s panic buying numbers, freight volume is sitting at a 29% increase year over year. Get the details here. It’s more bad news for shippers.

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Logistics in War

MAY 16, 2018

This article is part two of a series of posts examining logistics and strategic competition. This article examines military power from the position of a theorist who saw geography and logistics as central to his vision of national power. By David Beaumont. Strategists and logisticians alike need to be innovative at this time.

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Conger

JULY 28, 2022

In this article, you’ll: Learn the top safety guidelines for warehouses. We’ll talk more about specific risks later in the article, but briefly, warehouse workers commonly face hazards associated with: Forklifts and other material handling equipment. This is your ultimate guide to warehouse safety. Let’s dive in! Table of Contents.

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FLS Transport

JANUARY 4, 2021

While this is nothing to cheer about, industrial output combined with the other items noted in this article will continue to increase the demand for trucks during the normal lull. If you’re looking for some deeper analysis on rate increases for 2021, we recommend both the FreightWaves 2021 Outlook and the DAT Market Update.

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