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The FreightTech Dilemma with Brad Wheeler

The Logistics of Logistics

Brad serves as the Senior Director of Customer Strategy at Emerge , the leading freight procurement platform. Brad brings it all to the table from characterizing Emerge’s brand and culture, presenting Emerge’s value proposition to the industry, and determining pivotal insights to enhance customer experience.

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What is Order Picking?

Logistics Bureau

Any warehouse design exercise that doesn’t include a rigorous approach to designing the processes and equipment layout for Order Picking, is suspect. Good order picking processes can save labour costs, increase productivity and customer satisfaction and ultimately more revenue and a competitive advantage.

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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

With the justification aside, they next had us go through exercises calculating net present value and ROI for a hypothetical capital investment in tooling – as though a shop floor supervisor would do this at any point in the course of their job. Those costs were out of control. Elimination of waste: Focus on adding value.

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Outsourcing transport and warehousing: How to be Successful

Logistics Bureau

Merely dealing with the complexity of transport networks, contractors, inventories, industrial unions, and cost control is tough enough for many enterprises, so achieving 98% on-time performance is, for some, just a dream.On But what about cost of service? The provider has to add a margin to their costs to beprofitable.

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Cultivate a Stickier Customer Base Using WMS Add-On Technology

Logistics Viewpoints

Instead of manually entering data at set intervals throughout the month – an after-the-fact exercise prone to errors and omissions – an automated solution captures billable activities correctly in real-time, improving overhead utilization, cost control, and revenue leakage at once.

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The History of Fleet Route Optimisation in Logistics

Logistics Bureau

The transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. Automated route planning software is improving in effectiveness and costs are coming down. But first, what is route optimisation?

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Self-reliance and the sustainment of the force – logistics as the bedrock or quicksand of operations in a crisis

Logistics in War

The following text is of a presentation given at a 2019 Wiliams Foundation conference, ‘Sustaining self-reliance’ As the original article cannot be found on other sites, it is provided here with some slight adjustments. Many of these conversations can end with it. As these reports tend to go, its conclusions werent pretty.