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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. They learn from every transaction, movement, delay, and trend, continuously improving as the warehouse operates. What are intelligent warehouse systems?

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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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Capability gaps and the absence of assessment – Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – Part Four

Logistics in War

Capability gaps were so obvious in post-operational analysis that a strong narrative about mis-investment in Defence emerged in the wake of Operation Warden and the corresponding INTERFET mission. When it comes to ADF operations in East Timor in 1999, the poor state of the ADF’s logistics capabilities and capacities is well known.

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The Effects of Cultural Differences on Transportation and Logistics

MTS Logistics

In essence, the influence of cultural differences on transportation encompasses communication and language differences, cultural protocols and business habits, customs and export procedures, the dynamic political and legal environment, logistics infrastructure and transportation networks, as well as cultural needs and consumer behavior trends.

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Capability gaps and the absence of assessment – Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – Part Four

Logistics in War

Capability gaps were so obvious in post-operational analysis, a strong narrative about mis-investment in Defence emerged in the wake of Operation Warden and the INTERFET mission it corresponded to. When it comes to ADF operations in East Timor in 1999, the poor state of the ADF’s logistics capabilities and capacities is well known.

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

Logistics Bureau

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. Naturally, the first part of this task will be to research and clarify those key trends.

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Where Does Supply Chain Design End and Planning Begin? (Takeaways from LLamasoft’s SummerCon 2017 Conference)

Talking Logistics

The first one arrived a few years ago when a growing number of companies started treating supply chain design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise. It was a strategic/tactical analysis, disconnected from day-to-day operations, and the software tools were difficult to learn and use.