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How to Operate Your Distribution Truck Fleet at Less Cost

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If your company operates a distribution fleet, you’ll know that the costs of running trucks for customer deliveries are continually increasing. But, of course, the overall costs and other outsourcing pros and cons require careful consideration before making such a move. It’s a fair question.

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5 Tips For Improving Your Warehouse And Distribution Process

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Improving your warehouse and distribution process isn’t necessarily as easy as it might sound since any course of action needs to take into account variables such as your products, staffing levels, scheduling and third-party vendors. What follows are 5 tips for improving your warehouse and distribution process. Automation.

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3PL Industry Trends and a Forthcoming Identity Crisis

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As a general definition, a 3PL helps a company to get its offering, conceived in place A, into the hands of its customers in place B. The solution is to back up, figuratively speaking, to the general definition of the need and see how overall trends and developments in the world could make this need map onto other, different solutions.

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A Guide to Supply Chain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

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Of course, the big challenge in this type of external benchmarking is obtaining the necessary data, since many companies are wary of sharing performance data with potential competitors. Of course, its also possible to add further tiers for even more granularity, but again, the more levels you have, the more complex your KPI solution.

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Michigan Never Forgets – Bob Seger

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But, of course, Seger did not stop there. But of course, they hit the resell sites soon after. If you are lucky enough to have tickets to the show, he will definitely be “something to see.”. The post Michigan Never Forgets – Bob Seger appeared first on Evans Distribution Systems. The Farewell Tour. This is it!

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Companies Improve their Supply Chains with Artificial Intelligence

Logistics Viewpoints

In the course of updating our annual research on the supply chain planning market , I talked to executives across the industry. Let’s start with a definition: any device that can perceive its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal is engaged in some form of artificial intelligence (AI).

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6 Key Supply Chain and Logistics Trends to Watch in 2017

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Automation is already well-established in many distribution centres around the world, but for most, it is limited to workflow automation managed by increasingly advanced warehouse management systems. Key Logistics Trend #3: The Blurred Line Between Logistics and Technology Services. Key Logistics Trend #5: The Race for the Last Mile.