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Logistics Simplified: Three Keys to Solving Your Supply Chain Problems

Material Handling and Logistics

It’s true that the major issues in the supply chain—which were confirmed through MH&L ’s workforce survey process and published in an earlier article —are nuanced. The point here is the pick efficiency and speed mean nothing if replenishment can’t keep up. In the supply chain, problems are often overcomplicated.

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A Guide to Supply Chain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Logistics Bureau

Still, in this article, I will help you evaluate the need for supply chain and logistics KPIs in your organisation, and identify which types of measurement might be most appropriate. Of course, its also possible to add further tiers for even more granularity, but again, the more levels you have, the more complex your KPI solution.

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3D Printing’s Next Revolution

Logistics Viewpoints

More SKUs available from local warehouses could also mean quicker replenishment cycles parts that are purchased infrequently. In an article last year, it was reported that the time it takes to print things has decreased. Of course, it is not just speed of printing that matters but cost. This vision has not been realized.

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9 Barriers to Optimal Inventory and How to Break them Down

Logistics Bureau

Those are the precise questions we’ve set out to answer in this article. In that case, please read on, as the rest of this article is dedicated to explaining the nine fundamental factors typically contributing to suboptimal inventory levels. Ignoring the presence of forecast biases which skew replenishment patterns.

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Warehouse Product Slotting: The Ultimate Guide

Logistics Bureau

If you browse through the Logistics Bureau blog, you’ll find at least two or three articles—and about the same number of videos—that cover warehouse product slotting. Slotting Increases Replenishment Efficiency. Productivity improvements in picking, replenishment, and put-away. Pretty good, right? Slotting Benefits: Summary.

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

Logistics Bureau

As a result, and as we’ve mentioned in several previously published articles, we’ve discovered that many companies lack a defined and documented supply chain strategy. Collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR). Vendor-managed inventory or replenishment. Instead, it should always be the other way around.

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To Slot or not to Slot? That is the question

Logistics Bureau

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. This article is the first in a planned series on slotting.