Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

Dynamic Slotting involves the use of software and algorithms to perform velocity and affinity analysis, in a real-time, ever adapting fashion, through the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning. By conducting a velocity analysis, the software can categorize products based on their demand and importance.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

When the new distribution centre is up and running, the ramp-up was successful, and the first items are picked onto pallets or roll containers with the help of highly dynamic COM machines, then the ‘Grand Opening’ is celebrated, everyone involved congratulates each other, and there is a festive atmosphere.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 3, 2020

To provide maximum trading flexibility they are usually geared and modern examples are fitted for the carriage of containers and grains. Each individual shipment is handled a number of times from the time it is picked up from the customer until it reaches its final delivery location. Transportation Service #5 – Truckload.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

The pace and scope of supply chain disruption are beyond human cognition, manual analysis, and consumer-grade spreadsheet tools. A team of interactive, AI-enabled optimization engines, or agents, are trained in specific logistics tasks like order prioritization, warehouse picking or load-building.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Black Friday only works as a great opportunity to offload discounted stock, for example, if the fulfilment process is super-efficient. Any problems, from inaccurate picking to product damage or delivery errors, will rapidly wipe out any margin on a discounted item.

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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. Picking and packing. Too little detail won’t give you the information you need to take action. Marketing costs.

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EazyStock

JUNE 18, 2019

If you’re wondering what is the best way to manage inventory with hundreds or even thousands of SKUs, you’ve found your answer: ABC analysis (otherwise known as ABC classification ). In this post, we’re going to discuss how you can classify your inventory into three ABC categories and introduce the concept of XYZ analysis.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 17, 2024

G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottler markets, sells, produces, warehouses, vends, picks, and delivers orders in partnership with Pepsi-Cola. Some of the key measurements that are important to the company include MTBF (mean time between failures/stops), average uptime, MTTR (mean time to repair), and other real-time data and analysis information.

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Conger

JANUARY 27, 2023

Examples of automation range from a household thermostat to a large industrial control system, self-driven vehicles, and warehousing robots. Examples are industrial robots and multipurpose CNC machines. For example, full warehouse automation to support event-driven, mission-critical system delivery.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This can typically be on a weekly, daily or even hourly basis if you want a more in-depth analysis. This includes things like the rate at which your items are received and unloaded, put away into storage locations, picked for orders and then packed and shipped out. An example of Warehouse Throughput (& why it’s important!)

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 22, 2021

Let’s start with an uncomplicated example: Company A is in the business of distributing whiteboard markers. If they are going to understand their cost to serve, they need to know the cost of shipping, for example, the green one to a customer. How does the product go through the warehouse: receiving, storage, picking, and dispatch?

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 31, 2018

For example, using smartphones and tablets instead of barcode scanners can make it easier to train your employees and for them to get work done. The collection, access, analysis and utilization of data must be a primary consideration, not an afterthought. They’ll feel more accomplished and less stressed.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 31, 2021

Naturally, overall cost-to-serve will be higher for online than in-store sales due to the added expense involved in picking, packing, and delivering customers’ purchases. For example: Compared to selling a product in-store, the cost to deliver that same item as a small parcel can be several times higher. Equipment use.

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EazyStock

JANUARY 31, 2022

Inventory Management KPIs for Effective Inventory Analysis. Lots of activities, processes and people are involved in ordering, receiving, storing, picking and shipping items with the ultimate aim of keeping customers happy with the correct orders that are on time. Order pick, pack and dispatch accuracy. Inventory turnover ratio.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Slotting a warehouse product is the same, for example, as placing your umbrella close to your front door at home, so it’s easy to pick it up and run when it’s raining, and you’re late for work. Still, without a doubt, picking is the operational regimen that will see the most significant impact.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 16, 2017

Modern supply chains are evolving beyond anyone’s expectations due to increased use of cloud-computing technologies, wearables and advanced data analysis. Data Analysis Grew Exponentially, Providing More End-to-End Visibility and Continuous Improvement. Data analysis is the companion of cloud-computing technologies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By tracking and managing picking, packing, and shipping processes minute-by-minute, a WES dramatically increases accuracy and efficiency, enabling companies to support much higher order volumes with the same resources. Let’s look at the example of an order that needs to go out by 5:00 pm, when FedEx or UPS is making a pickup.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 18, 2022

I was able to pick up the language easily. In the market, most people will see this as an end-to-end solution from where you pick up your asset, which could be in your warehouse. I will give you an example of predictive. What matters is the output that comes out of our analysis. At the end of the day, this is my view.

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EazyStock

JUNE 18, 2019

If you’re wondering what is the best way to manage inventory with hundreds or even thousands of SKUs, you’ve found your answer: ABC analysis (otherwise known as ABC classification ). In this post, we’re going to discuss how you can classify your inventory into three ABC categories and introduce the concept of XYZ analysis.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 14, 2015

Take a look at how the IoT supply chain is changing the landscape in terms of equipment functionality, shipping processes, invoicing and payments, and analysis of trends. For example, a subtle change in hydraulic pressure may still permit the machine to operate. Analysis of Trends and Recommendations.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Essentially, it’s about organising products so that frequently picked items are easily accessible, reducing the travel time for pickers. It’s the same reason you place your umbrella close to your front door at home, so it’s easy to pick it up and run when it’s raining and you’re late for work. Reduce product damage.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 6, 2015

For example, retirement benefits, paid-time-off, overtime pay, adherence to daily work schedules, and other aspects of typical workers is completely eliminated when robotics are employed in supply chain processes. Robotics also impact the efficiency and analysis of supply chain processes. This impacts how items may be manufactured.

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CH Robinson Logistics

AUGUST 17, 2021

Carriers have been tasked with picking up more screening activities than usual because some shippers may not be partnering with the right forwarder who can take care of the screening for them. For example, for one C.H. In addition, changes in export screening standards in the U.S.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

I’ve worked with many suppliers over the years to do an analysis of what that true cost is for the supplier to deliver direct to store versus going maybe in bulk to the retailers DC so that they can sit down with the facts to have those negotiations with their retail customers. So maybe you’re going to be picking up the products.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2021

That means that people actually pick something up and put it down seven to eight times, either manually or using MHE. One-way flow is a really good principle to apply during the design process because it allows you to plan your picking path through the warehouse as well as your replenishment paths. 2) One-Way Flow. 8) Know Your Data.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 15, 2016

Whilst there are variations to the operations of a warehouse; if we consider the direct labour component only, then products need to generally go through the following processes of receiving, put-away, storage, replenishment, picking, staging and dispatch of products to customers. Product Travel Requirements.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Picking up trash, learning the importance of recycling, and teaching participants what are their carbon footprint is are all good habits for children to learn through the activities held during the Clean Oceans Project. Ozger also mentioned her own project where she is working to create artificial reefs by recycling mussel shells.

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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. Supplier Defect Rate.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 23, 2019

A great example of this change is the way Americans shop for furniture. Or they could pick up the sofa from the store with their own vehicle, one borrowed from a friend, or rented for the occasion. Let’s take another look at the treadmill example. But not anymore. Changing proximity. An end-to-end approach.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The analysis, based on rates of economic expansion, turnover during the three-year period 2015-2018 and the respective CAGR, has identified Eurofork as the 170th Champion of Growth selecting it from research sources that review a total of 7.8 million Italian companies.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Accurate data forecasting requires accurate data, robust data analysis tools, and people who understand how to use them. For example, if you’re introducing a new product and there are no similar products to draw historical data from, qualitative research is a must to reduce risk.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Omnichannel, where a consumer, for example, might buy online, collect in store and pick up another item there, then return something by mail. For example, cancellations of orders fall if long term lead time information is more detailed. Data then analysis then decisions. Own the total.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 11, 2023

This can reduce the time and effort required for picking and packing, ultimately leading to improved productivity. For example, they can test the effect of increasing or decreasing safety stock levels or changing the replenishment frequency of certain products. come with any of them.

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MTS Logistics

MARCH 30, 2022

So to help shed some light on the misconceived ideas for those just getting into project logistics, I reached out to industry colleagues and compiled a paraphrased shortlist of examples and explanations experienced over the last years. Picking up the phone and relaying that in the moment goes a long way.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 20, 2015

TMS integrated to ERP which talks to the Robotics picking items and the WMS and the YMS and so forth and so on. For example, highly powerful tools developed for clickstream analysis, fraud detection, cyber security, and genome sequencing are now coming to process industries. Who has time and money for human INPUT error?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

A simple example of this would entail considering inventory and stock on hand (internal data) along with changes in weather patterns due to climate change (external data), and how both factors affect a factory’s ability to deliver on its orders. For the past several decades, ERP systems have been monolithic applications, but that is changing.

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EazyStock

JUNE 24, 2020

Organizations are introducing software to drive efficiency right across their operations – from financial analysis to marketing automation. For example, highlighting unusual dips in demand or longer than expected lead times. The era of using spreadsheets to run reports and analyze data is over. Identifying and Managing Critical Stock.

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