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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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What are Reverse Logistics?

Logistics Bureau

Products come back in dribs and drabs, not in nearly packaged batches. When marketing sees why products are being returned, it can improve product features like quality, packaging, and usability. It would be tempting to think of reverse logistics as forward logistics done backwards. Tempting, but wrong. Almost everything can change.

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The Effects of Cultural Differences on Transportation and Logistics

MTS Logistics

Customs and Export Procedures Logistics companies need to exercise caution in navigating the varied customs procedures of different countries. Companies must be attentive to cultural nuances in product design, packaging, and overall strategy to avoid economic challenges arising from difficulties in breaking cultural taboos and rules.

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Inventory Management in Service Logistics Industry

Talking Logistics

It is a package of methodologies and statistical models developed to perform inventory rationalization and improve service within the logistics industry. This system uses Multi-Echelon Planning as a base combined with statistical models we developed that are applied at different phases of the exercise.

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How much stuff is enough?

Logistics in War

There was no logic to the unprecedented demand for basic consumer goods that was later replicated in increased demand for selected pharmaceutical goods and packaged alcohol. The key is effective data analysis, trusted modelling tools and a systematic approach that provides total visibility across the entire supply network.

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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. Figure 1, Location of ABC products (Source DC Expert 3 D drawing package).

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No Supply Chain Strategy? Here’s How to Develop One

Logistics Bureau

Your fact-finding efforts should seek to determine what your customers want in the following aspects of supply chain service: Packaging and labelling requirements. Step 2: Gap Analysis – Customer Requirements and Supply Chain Trends. But the only way to find out is to speak with those customers directly. What do You Need to Know?