Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Is it about optimization? KPIs should provide a feel of effectiveness in inventory management but actions needing to improve the performance lies where the challenges are. . It is a package of methodologies and statistical models developed to perform inventory rationalization and improve service within the logistics industry.

Inventory Reduction 96

Inventory Reduction Inventory Logistics Network Optimization Software Cost Reduction 96

GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 29, 2015

KPIs or Key Performance Indicators are a core practice of measuring the effectiveness and for continuous improvement in any business outsourcing model. The 4PL built a new routing tool specifically for Whirlpool that offered overall cost optimization and mode selection. KPIs for Cost Reduction and Continuous Improvement was created.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2016

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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Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Design Inventory Reduction Cost Reduction 99

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 19, 2022

Many businesses in the US, and elsewhere, were sourcing their componentry from China. It will be all about strategic supplies, strategic procurement, supply agreements and keeping buffer stocks in country so that all the requirements are met to keep business going while long-term plans are formulated and implemented.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2015

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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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. They expand into an analysis of revenue-accruing & cost-optimizing functions, and result in the identification of capabilities that the organization aspires to develop or enhance.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

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 it’s 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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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. Alternatively, you can procure access to a digital freight benchmarking platform.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

You’ll find no better way to gain that knowledge than with an energy audit to highlight where you can benefit from improvements. Of course, switching to more efficient lighting requires significant investment, especially if you choose induction lights, which are particularly expensive to procure.

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Cost Reduction Purchasing Skills Waste Reduction Material Savings 98

Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Product slotting is a warehouse term that involves placing products in optimal locations within a warehouse to enhance operational efficiency. The main benefits we see are: Improved order picking efficiency. To do a proper analysis though, we need to go a bit more in-depth. What is slotting? Reduce product damage.

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3PL Links

JUNE 19, 2024

Image source: Needpix.com | Top 10 Best Logistics Practices to Ensure the Success of Your E-commerce Business Logistics is a vital component of any e-commerce, covering every aspect of product delivery and storage. This improves delivery process transparency and consumer confidence.

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UL EHS- Sustainability

OCTOBER 31, 2019

But when organizations are unsure of the root cause of an operational issue, assigning employee training can offer dramatic insight and measurable data leading to enhanced performance, improved production and even internal cost savings. The real cause typically reveals itself quickly when you go directly to the source.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

The company was replenishing dealers’ inventory weekly, using direct shipment and cross-docking operations from source warehouses located near Deere & Company’s manufacturing facilities. Further improvement initiatives included: Cutting the chip assembly test window from a five-day schedule, to a bi-weekly, 2-day-long process.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 11, 2025

Firstly, it recommended conducting realistic wargames and exercises to reflect threats and the capability of the logistics enterprise to respond. One nation might overcome force projection challenges by building an island where there was none before, while another will procure air mobility platforms or ships for afloat support.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2017

The variety of functions involved – product design, procurement, warehousing, production, transport, distribution, sales, for instance – encourages demand for new employees and multiplies possibilities for moving around inside too. Workflow optimization. Transportation (transportation manager, fleet manager). Financial planning.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2017

If your business is currently falling victim to any of the following supply chain mistakes, corrective action will undoubtedly deliver improvements in cost, revenue, customer service and numerous other business performance factors. Do you supply certain products to certain customers at a loss? Missing Customer Service Clarity.

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Logistics in War

JULY 8, 2023

Fuel and ammunition feed into the discussion of force posture, and the importance of exercises to build ‘preparedness including minimum viable improvements in key areas’ is also clear (pp 78-80). We can infer from this statement that the authors of the DSR did not think that ‘national resilience’ was where it should be.

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Logistics in War

APRIL 4, 2018

Two thousand years later the same concept applies; it is the capacity of the mighty US military to project itself on a global scale that deters potential adversaries, and it is why Cold War exercises such as REFORGER and the contemporary alternatives such as Operation Atlantic Resolve are vital at a time of increasing competition.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Transportation spending is a perennial target of budget-cutting exercises, and a large, multi-faceted cost center for many companies; some may spend three to six percent of their materials costs on transportation. These functions must integrate easily into current logistics, invoicing , and procurement processes.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 27, 2016

However based on observations made in the course of our consulting work, many organisations perceive it as a purely remedial or punitive exercise. 4) Most suppliers tend to focus on performance improvement when they are monitored and evaluated. Perhaps it may seem obvious that supplier performance evaluation is an ongoing process.

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In an attempt to help you keep your supply chain organisation from analysis paralysis, metric manipulation, or measurement misnomers, I decided to use this post to share nine important guidelines, or golden rules, for benchmarking your business and monitoring performance using meaningful supply chain KPIs.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 7, 2018

to the complex exercise of pricing. that improves an automated system’s skills over time and experience, is a key part of the puzzle. 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. Webb sums up the role of A.I. At the same time, an A.I.-driven

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Having a platform where suppliers can see the demand and can update their commits will reduce surprises and improve service levels. For example, brand manufacturers and retailers—are beginning to perform life cycle analysis of their products to ascertain the environmental impacts of the products they sell.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 21, 2016

That’s not to say that the following signs and symptoms are harbingers of disaster, but they should certainly prompt a distribution network design review, along with a modeling exercise to check if your outbound supply chain is maintaining that all-important balance between cost and service.

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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.

Inventory Reduction 40

Inventory Reduction Resource Reduction Vendor Strategies Cost Reduction 40

Logistics Bureau

JULY 21, 2017

At the next Logistics Bureau Free Executive Breakfast (which will take place in August), I’ll be discussing the alignment of supply chain and business strategy along with eight other important levers for supply chain performance improvement. How Kmart Could Have Improved Supply Chain Strategy. The Failing Kmart Business Strategy.

Cost Reduction 68

Cost Reduction Inventory Reduction Price Reduction Vendor Strategies 68

Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis. For example, the Disaster Recovery Journal indicates the main sources of business interruption. Making the business impact analysis is the next step. Other senior managers to enlist include the directors of supply chain, production, logistics and procurement, and the CIO.

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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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World Food Programme Logistics

MARCH 1, 2019

Photo: WFP Photo Library Cost-benefit analysis studies carried out by WFP and partners have shown that every dollar invested in school feeding programmes can yield up to 10 dollars in improved health, education and productivity. Locally sourced produce provides nutritional value for school children.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

The need for any S&OP process to have an executive sponsor who actively participates in the process, albeit only by exercising final approval over plans and, of course, making any decisions that call for executive authority, cannot be overstated. The Executive Sponsor. Other Stakeholders.

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Logistics in War

OCTOBER 22, 2017

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] However, they are legitimate concerns that should be echoed in strategic and industry policy calculus.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In an attempt to help you keep your supply chain organisation from analysis paralysis, metric manipulation, or measurement misnomers, I decided to use this post to share nine important guidelines, or golden rules, for benchmarking your business and monitoring performance using meaningful supply chain KPIs.

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FLS Transport

JANUARY 4, 2021

High demand for food and beverage items, electronics, furniture, retail consumables, and home improvement goods made it hard to keep these items on the shelves. It will be all-hands-on-deck as the greater economy, industrial, manufacturing, and housing businesses all fire back up and that pent-up demand and idle cap-ex are exercised. (2)

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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] However, they are legitimate concerns that should be echoed in strategic and industry policy calculus.

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The Logistics Academy

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Prokop: While we can’t know for sure what jobs will look like in the decades ahead because technology progresses so rapidly, some constants will always be a source of value to any employer. More companies can afford to globalize operations such as sourcing or market expansion. What can be measured can be managed.

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Conger

JULY 20, 2020

This portion of training must consist of “demonstrations performed by the trainer and practical exercises performed by the trainee” [OSHA standard 1910.178(l)(2)(ii) ]. Then, when you start, you’ll watch videos, do some reading, and complete interactive exercises to help you learn and retain the information. Fuel sources.

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