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Cost to Serve Analysis—And the Costs of Neglecting It

Logistics Bureau

Have you conducted a cost-to-serve (CTS) analysis for your enterprise? And that is the sole purpose of cost-to-serve analysis. If you were going to say, “What is a cost-to-serve analysis?” Only a complete cost-to-serve analysis will expose these underlying issues unless they happen to be discovered incidentally.

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Global Logistics Market Analysis: 2022 Summer Edition

MTS Logistics

Of course, we may still experience more factories in Asia not operating at 100 percent capacity, further trucking shortages, port issues, etc. The post Global Logistics Market Analysis: 2022 Summer Edition appeared first on More Than Shipping. Let’s not forget U.S. West Coast ports and dockworkers are negotiating a new labor contract.

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Analysis: Why the Biden Administration is Not Being Honest About Supply Chain Issues

MTS Logistics

In politics, it can of course be necessary at times to portray events as relatively simple in order to reach a wider audience. The post Analysis: Why the Biden Administration is Not Being Honest About Supply Chain Issues appeared first on More Than Shipping. President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address last week.

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3PL Contracts – The Options

Logistics Bureau

Where the existing in-house operation is very inefficient, inappropriately resourced or could gain significantly from being incorporated into a larger operation, then of course savings may be possible. This is best achieved by open discussion and analysis of the activities and product volumes involved.

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6 Critical Success Factors in Distribution Network Design

Logistics Bureau

Quality and Detail of Data and its Analysis In some of our earlier posts, weve stressed the importance of simplicity in distribution network design , and we will return to that topic later in this article. It’s not a short list, so we’ll set it down here as a summary to help you with plans for analysis.

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Toyota Kata: What If There Is No Takt Time?

The Lean Thinker

At KataCon 2020, Steve Medland posed a problem that comes up fairly often: The default Toyota Kata process analysis (“grasp the current condition”) involves determining takt times and cycle times for the process, and a lot of processes don’t have an obvious repeating cadence. ” And that is what takt time gives us.

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Demand Forecasting in an Inflationary, Supply-Constrained, Semi-Post-Pandemic Environment

Logistics Viewpoints

I tend to use time series analysis as an anchor to my forecast, as I suspect many of you do. In the first half of 2020, my European colleagues Florian Güldner and David Humphrey conducted a thorough scenario analysis to estimate the potential impact of the corona virus on automation markets and supply chains. Final Word.