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BD Achieves End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

The company had access to huge amounts of trade data, for example. In an article, I voiced my skepticism and said that I believed using AI to solve this problem would lead to huge number of false positives. But the further up the supply chain BD went, the less incentive suppliers had to participate in these exercises.

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The Power of Outsourcing for Supply Chain Improvement

Logistics Bureau

In this article, I will redress the balance by exploring outsourcing from a more holistic perspective, focusing on ways to consider outsourcing partnerships for improvement throughout the supply chain. So, for example, outsourcing sales activity is not typically a good idea if yours is a retail sales company.

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Omnichannel Retail and the Cost to Serve Online Customers

Logistics Bureau

The tips in this article will help you know how to identify the customers, products, and processes that might be inflating your cost to serve (CTS) unnecessarily. For example: Compared to selling a product in-store, the cost to deliver that same item as a small parcel can be several times higher. Rework – due to errors.

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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. For example, slotting strategies often involve placing the fastest-moving SKUs close to the warehouse dispatch zones, minimising picking operatives’ travel distances and times.

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4 tips to reduce cargo damage and save money on shipping costs

Shipping and Freight Resource

With the right packaging, strategy, and tools, you can cut shipping costs by as much as 60%. But you can exercise more control over shipping and cargo damage than you might be aware as long as you have the right tools at your disposal. But if you can reduce cargo and shipping damage , you can cut shipping costs.

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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

So that’s the route we’re taking in this article, exploring the evolution of fleet route optimisation from a time-consuming pen-and-paper exercise to a high-tech process that, in some cases, can be completed in minutes. I guess that’s why we called it route planning and not route optimisation.” Book a free consultation.

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Freight Benchmarking: What Is It? Why Do It?

Logistics Bureau

It will also make it easier to determine, for example, if you should opt for contract rates over spot rates or vice versa. Firstly, if you plan to benchmark as a one-off exercise now and again, you might engage a specialist team of consultants to execute a project for you. The Pros and Cons of Procuring a Benchmarking Tool.