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How to Choose the Right Port for Your Freight: A Practical Guide for Shippers

ECW

A strategically chosen port can: Shorten transit times Lower total landed costs Improve inventory reliability Reduce drayage distances Strengthen your carbon reduction strategy But choosing the wrong one? Example: If your distribution center is in Pennsylvania, the Port of New York/New Jersey might seem like the logical choice.

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Best practices for working with 3PLs

DC Velocity

The 3PL can then help the customer drill down further to determine the size and type of facility required and analyze the impact of a potential move on transportation costs, for example. Whatever the case, understanding each other’s needs and capabilities is vital to building and maintaining a good partnership.

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Schneider Electric’s Supply Chain Design Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, at one point, they modeled Brazil and factored tariffs and tax considerations into the total landed costs analysis. They only promise at most 50% of the savings shown by the analysis. Botham pointed out that not all projects generate results. Supply chain design can be a valuable tool for driving sustainability.

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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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10 Supply Chain Improvement Essentials for Your Company

Logistics Bureau

An efficient supply chain strategy is one that takes every aspect of your supply chain into account, from inventory management and warehouse design to freight tendering and transport optimisation. Inventory Management The key starting point is implementing proper ABC analysis, and you need to look at it from multiple angles.

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Intelligent Systems in the Modern Dynamic Warehouse

Logistics Viewpoints

From improving slotting decisions to optimizing picking batches, these tools are unlocking efficiency gains that would be impossible with human analysis alone. Smart slotting drives better inventory placement for better performance One of the most impactful uses of machine learning in a warehouse is intelligent slotting.

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A Guide to Supply Chain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Logistics Bureau

A KPI is a practical and objective measurement of progress, either: Towards a predetermined goal, or Against a required standard of performance It might help to think of a KPI as something like an instrument on a car dashboarda speedometer, for example. Why Are KPIs Important?