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Editor’s Choice: Creating Full Truckload Budgets in a Volatile Market

Logistics Viewpoints

Today’s article comes from Emerge, and looks at how to create full truckload budgets in a volatile market. Although it’s important to acknowledge that shippers bring varying levels of sophistication to the FTL budgeting process, for many companies it comes down to a bare bone, two-part exercise.

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Know Your Supply Chain KPIs – Procurement

Logistics Bureau

Emergency Purchase Rate. Emergency purchases are bad news for your business costs, continuity, and planning, and they also increase supply chain risk. For that reason, the emergency purchase rate KPI is one you should certainly be keeping an eye on. Purchase Order Cycle Time. Cost per Purchase Order and Cost per Invoice.

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Outsourcing transport and warehousing: How to be Successful

Logistics Bureau

In this article I will outline, firstly, the reasons why organisations outsource logistics activities, and secondly, what the key drivers are for outsourcing success. It must be a joint exercise. In my next article I will be covering the different types of outsourcing relationships and issues to be aware of when entering contracts.

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Being Adaptive Drives Resiliency and Margins in Collaborative Supply Chain Networks (CSCN)

Logistics Viewpoints

This article explores how adaptive supply chains can help businesses thrive. They underwent a thorough Network Optimization exercise to identify the roadmap of transitioning to a hybrid offshore/nearshore model. Traditional, linear supply chains struggle to adapt.

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S&OP in Agribusiness: How to Harvest the Benefits with Advanced Analytics

AIMMS

In a recent article published in Mundo Logística , Tereos’ Logistics and S&OP Executive Manager, André Margoto , shares valuable insights on how agribusiness companies can use optimization models in (near) real-time to inform planning decisions and bolster their S&OP process.

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Omnichannel Retail and the Cost to Serve Online Customers

Logistics Bureau

If yours is one of those businesses shifting from traditional to online retail, you’ve probably faced some of the logistical challenges arising from the need to deliver your customers’ purchases to them. To answer that question, I would remind you of the research findings I mentioned earlier in this article. Equipment use.

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Warehouse Capacity – How to Increase It and Avoid Moving

Logistics Bureau

I was going to say poor but inappropriate purchasing policies. You know, you’ve got to try and balance that purchase quantity versus purchase frequency and look at the total cost of ownership of inventory, not just the purchase price. Well, a lot of it is related to inventory management. It could be inappropriate.