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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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Continuing Education For Licensed Customs Brokers

MTS Logistics

In addition, this education can increase the quality of service for individual brokers’ clients and importers in compliance with customs laws and maintain a high standard of professionalism in the customs broker community. It would create and maintain a measure of consistency across all customs brokers.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

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. The combat force becomes a ‘one-shot wonder’ with little in reserve or in the training pipeline.

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Supply Chain Optimization: Leveraging Integrated Scenario Planning as a Margin Multiplier

Logistics Viewpoints

Ensuring seamless data flow between these systems for various scenarios can be difficult, compounded by the need to maintain data integrity across different systems and scenarios, requiring continuous data validation, cleansing, and synchronization.

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Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions

GlobalTranz

Below I will outline how a vendor managed inventory model, in conjunction with reverse marketing, value analysis, and collaboration will achieve supply chain cost reductions. A means of optimizing Supply Chain performance in which the manufacturer is responsible for maintaining the distributor’s inventory levels.

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To Slot or not to Slot? That is the question

Logistics Bureau

So those faster moving products using this principle we can categorise as A, and so on, through B and to C the slower the sales rate is, we call this ABC analysis. All of these symptoms potentially are a sign that a slotting exercise is overdue. 20%) make up a greater percentage of what we sell (80%). Product Travel Requirements.

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6 Benefits of Applying Useable Data in Logistics For Continuous Improvement

GlobalTranz

Performance management is basically how an organization manages potential problems and maintains standards within the workforce. For example, drivers are expected to arrive on time, maintain docking schedules, and avoid dead time. However, you must exercise caution to make sure you do not damage your vendor-shipper relationship.

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