SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In 2018 a Forbes magazine published an article entitled “Every company is a data company” in which the authors urged all companies to use data as a core asset. That is now becoming a reality as businesses come to realize that data is the most significant asset they possess. Growth of IIoT. Quality control.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

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. It also stands to reason that when you undertake a slotting exercise, you should think about it from the perspective of these activities.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

Often, in our experience, the problem is a human one… It’s not the data, not the process, not the technology, or the strategy, but the people. Pundits typically emphasize data and digital technology when proselytising for the S&OP concept. But what makes it so challenging to implement S&OP successfully? The Demand Planner.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Within this discipline, one of the toughest challenges is how to get visibility to problems arising across the extended supply network. In a conversation with Everstream’s chief data officer, the executive told this writer that the company was using artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data to solve this n-tier problem.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Whether that is the case or not, a brief study of the origins and progression of fleet route optimisation, covering the last three decades or so and looking forward to the near future, highlights in a spectacular way how technology, in particular, has revolutionised the business of logistics. Let’s take a brief look at some of them.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

With that question answered, I’m giving the rest of this article over to highlighting several business and supply chain issues, which, if you are experiencing them in your enterprise, are potent indications that CTS analysis should be on your agenda —for execution at the soonest. Of course, it’s not a panacea.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

We hope the tips and ideas in this article will help you make inroads into warehouse energy and labour cost reduction. However, in this article, we’ll focus exclusively on the cost factor, drawing your attention to some questions you might ask yourself (and your team) about your facility’s energy usage.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you follow our blog, you’ll know that we often post articles about logistics outsourcing. In this article, we will revisit the logistics outsourcing topic by looking at the various reasons companies fall back on to justify a decision to outsource logistics or keep it in-house.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

At Logistics Bureau, we capture, analyse, and exploit freight benchmarking data to help us when we provide freight contract negotiation services for our clients. How Can Your Business Benefit from Freight Benchmarking? Freight Benchmarking: How to Do it Right. 2: Take Care in Identifying the KPIs to Use.

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Women in Trucking

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Physically, the long hours sitting behind the wheel, lack of exercise (or for many OTR drivers little physical movement at all) and easy access to unhealthy food and drinks all take their toll on driver health. The severity of those mental health conditions is obvious in data like this: 13.6%

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 14, 2021

What’s covered in this article: Identified Problems in Driver Safety. Safety Concerns – The Countable Accidents Caused By Trucks And How To Help It. They must exercise caution while driving in poor weather conditions. Installing IoT sensors in trucks, which are integral in working with traffic data, can prevent accidents.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2019

As reported by Reuters, “Amazon could build a stake of almost a third in warehouse robotics firm Balyo in the next seven years…Under the terms of the deal, Amazon will receive free stock warrants representing up to 29 percent of Balyo’s capital which it can exercise depending on orders of the company’s products.

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Conger

MAY 28, 2021

By the end of this article, you’ll learn: Why forklift operator safety training is important. How to develop your own in-house forklift training program. How to Start Developing Your Own Forklift Safety Training Program. Lucky for you, this article is here to help! How to calculate forklift capacities.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Too much leads to resources being monopolised on gathering tons of data and a subsequent risk of “paralysis by analysis” Cost to Serve (CTS) is an approach that helps you avoid both extremes. If profits start to decline afterwards, your CTS data can offer valuable information about what changed and how to get back on track.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2019

Since I first published this article back in 2009, warehouse design principles haven’t altered that much, but as we received many comments, including requests for more information, I figured it might be a good idea to expand on the original piece. Outbound Logistics: Keeping Customers Satisfied. S is for Space.

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Conger

JANUARY 7, 2022

This article is all about forklift weight capacity. In it, you'll learn: How forklifts work. How to calculate your forklift's actual capacity. How a Forklift Works: A Balancing Act. How Much Weight Can a Forklift Lift? Forklift Capacity Plate: What It Is and How to Read It. OSHA’s rules on forklift capacity.

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Logistics Marketing Advisors

JUNE 20, 2018

Those letters are short for General Data Protection Regulation – a law created by the European Union (EU) to give its citizens the ability to protect their personal data and online privacy. To help determine your legitimate interests in contacting individuals, see this assessment from the Data Protection Network (UK).

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 30, 2020

But with the vulnerability of such ultra-dependence on China now exposed, business managers should be planning how to increase the resilience of their supply chains. Once this exercise is completed, your company can then assess the risk from tier-two suppliers onwards.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 23, 2018

Strategic failures emerge when ‘thinkers’ are separated from ‘doers’, ‘strategists’ from ‘planners’ and ‘soft data’ from ‘hard data’. The control of logistics resources, especially in capability development, is influenced significantly by the desire to attain and exercise power within the institution. Strategic failure.

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Conger

JULY 28, 2022

In this article, you’ll: Learn the top safety guidelines for warehouses. How to Measure Warehouse Safety. We’ll talk more about specific risks later in the article, but briefly, warehouse workers commonly face hazards associated with: Forklifts and other material handling equipment. How to Measure Warehouse Safety.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

From a purely automotive perspective, the US vehicle handling ports exported 4m vehicles last year and imported twice that number, according to data from analyst PwC. According to GE Transportation, the system integrates data from across the port to better align people and resources and more efficiently move cargo through it.

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