SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 19, 2022

For example, one of the main problems with Asian-US trade is that all container ship deliveries are now routed to the West Coast, even though the bulk of America’s manufacturers are based on the East Coast. To assist with the short-term solution, the answer is an extensive data-gathering exercise. Use data to improve operations.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Because you can find plenty of other articles on this blog and the Logistics Bureau blog if you’d like to peruse such lists. So, for example, if your business competes strongly on price, you might go heavy on the cost-reduction side of supply chain management, setting objectives centered on savings.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

Across our many blog posts, videos, webinars, eBooks, and other shared content, you’ll find a wealth of information about various aspects of outsourcing in the supply chain. However, I can’t recall writing a general guide about exploiting outsourcing opportunities to improve your supply chain. Let’s take ecommerce as an example.

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10xLogistics

JANUARY 7, 2018

On July 18, 2015 I wrote a blog post entitled: DOJ Investigates Airlines - Are the Trucking Companies Next? For example, does the statement "disciplined capacity control" state a good business practice to the investors or does it state to the competition "If you don't add capacity I won't add capacity".

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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. 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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GlobalTranz

JUNE 6, 2016

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog from our friend Daniel Waldron from Armagard. It’s time to exercise that authority. Developments in computer enclosure technology is just one example of a product that’s evolved to help protect a new breed of AI applications powered by computerized control systems.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, many supply chain resiliency plans may have considered a health crisis in which organizations and key partners face lower-than-normal staffing levels. For example, hand sanitizer sales spiked 313% during one week in February 2020, according to reports from Nielsen. Embracing technology is part of that solution.

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

I’ve written many posts on this blog about the importance of having a supply chain strategy that’s aligned with the overall business plan, and why it is a mistake to have misaligned strategies. Don’t get me wrong here; off-the-shelf KPIs can serve a useful purpose, for example, when used for external benchmarking exercises.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Transportation spending is a perennial target of budget-cutting exercises, and a large, multi-faceted cost center for many companies; some may spend three to six percent of their materials costs on transportation. We recommend you download that white paper by visiting that blog post here.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 5, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll walk through some of the obstacles to medium-term demand planning, consider how high-frequency supply chain data can help fill the informational gaps that companies are grappling with, and then look at a real-world example of how the data in FreightWaves SONAR can give insight into the goods economy.

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GoShip Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Some examples of CPGs are personal hygiene products, food, beverages, and cosmetics. Conditions such as the freight container’s temperatures and the care exercised during loading and unloading are carefully considered when transporting specialty goods. One such example is a Rolls Royce. What is Consumer Packaging?

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 1, 2015

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

For example, could some areas of your warehouse be adapted via racking optimisation to store higher inventory volumes? A warehouse benchmarking exercise is an excellent way to start the quest for improvement opportunities. For example, you could reduce human labour by deploying robotic equipment or other forms of direct automation.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MAY 14, 2024

From a shipper’s perspective, transportation is a cost center, and the exercise of sourcing trucking capacity is not much different than that of procuring raw materials for production. In the above snippet, the example lane is very unbalanced in terms of capacity flow.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Bundling/Upselling Opportunities For example, some of your products and/or services might have price structures that complement one another, creating opportunities for bundling or upselling. If you haven’t done a segmentation exercise, that would be a positive first step towards understanding customer profitability.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2017

Supply chain mistakes like the five common examples I’m about to reveal , all have the potential to handicap business performance—which is why your company should avoid them (or address them if it’s too late for avoidance). For example: Customers don’t know what to expect. Can you see the dilemma here?

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Guest Post By Bob Ferrari, Executive Editor, Supply Chain Matters blog. Business Assurance: Supply Chain Blogs. Procurement Blog. Islamic Banking. Mobile Banking.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 21, 2017

The Kmart Australia story would make a good blog topic to illustrate the benefits of aligning supply chain and business strategies , but in this post I want to share the story of the original Kmart chain, which today shares nothing in common with Kmart Australia save for the brand name and logo.

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Envase Technologies

JULY 21, 2022

Obviously it also makes a big difference to manage other parts of the business well – avoiding dry runs, for example, and minimizing idling time. That being said, it’s not sustainable for a business long-term, so we urge small trucking companies to accelerate their cash flow so they can exercise the option of not factoring.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I’ve written many posts on this blog about the importance of having a supply chain strategy aligned with the overall business plan, and why it is a mistake to have misaligned strategies. A prime example of this kind of manipulation (and really, it is manipulation), is when performance issues arise which result in shipment delays.

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Ship Monk

AUGUST 2, 2023

A product category like apparel, for example, has too many subcategories to be considered a niche. If you’re already knee deep in design iterations and fulfillment provider RFPs, we hope you’ve already gone through this exercise. Follow our blog for more ecommerce business tips, and feel free to contact us with questions.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Let us take an initiative such as Inventory Optimization as an example. Enterprise transformations are a multi-year exercise in the making. Procurement Blog.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JULY 3, 2012

View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. In this blog, with the example of Asset Management for personal health, they emphasize on identifying avenues for adding more Asset definitions to the EAM purview.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 20, 2025

As youll know, if you follow our blog regularly, Logistics Bureau does a great deal of work related to supply chain strategy development and alignment. Another thing we talk about quite often on our blog is how companies often misjudge the needs and preferences of their customers. Step 1: What do Your Customers Want?

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GoShip Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

Exercise patience when asking freight providers to take on new lanes. Raw materials are the most crucial part of creating your product. Without them, you would not be able to meet customer demands. They will need time to adjust and plan how to accommodate your needs. Communicate in a timely manner.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 26, 2018

For most of human history, the success of that exercise has rested on the appointed seer’s years of experience, coupled with some indefinable grasp of probability. So a workable automated system will have the capability to weed out those parameters that don’t make sense — for example, a material that is prohibited in key markets.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 20, 2012

View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Gopi Krishnan - As regards operator driven maintenance, I see examples of the self-service concept here. Business Assurance: Supply Chain Blogs. Procurement Blog.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2019

blog by Tom Viggers, Global Account Director, pymetrics. Companies like Einride, for example, provide fully-autonomous electric vehicles which are already starting to be installed and commercially operational. According to DHL, “Supply chain managers across the globe are struggling with a critical supply-and-demand imbalance.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Through this blog, I would like to discuss few of these changes which I think has reinforced this digital trajectory in Asset Management. I believe that this is not just another technological phenomenon but has something to do with the inherent changes the Asset Management function by itself that it has been going through lately.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 26, 2018

For example, because of time constraints, most transactionally-driven procurement events rarely—if ever—require prospective suppliers to stress test the systems they are considering. It’s important to press for in-depth answers and examples. After you’ve narrowed down your list to a few finalists, test them and see how they perform.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

It’s not unusual for example, for companies to measure their supply chain performance only on the basis of financial metrics like supply chain cost per order. The checklist which accompanies this blog post includes 70 points for addressing and improving the supply chain basics.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 31, 2016

It’s not unusual for example, for companies to measure their supply chain performance only on the basis of financial metrics like supply chain cost per order. The checklist which accompanies this blog post includes 70 points for addressing and improving the supply chain basics.

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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. For example, it either makes sense to outsource logistics activity to a 3PL, or it makes more sense to keep it in-house. However, as that’s a bit of a mouthful, we’ll try to articulate it a little more clearly.

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Stord

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This is the first blog post in a series on the tactics and benefits of deploying a comprehensive kitting solution. Now that we have identified how we can tactically assemble kits, in future blog posts we will explore the best practices brands are deploying to make their kits truly memorable and effective.

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