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. So here it is—your ultimate guide to warehouse product slotting. What is Product Slotting. As this is an “ultimate” guide, we’ll start with the basics.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

So everything in the retailer’s Supply Chain strategy needs to be focused on the customer, and of course the shareholders, that goes without saying. By optimising supply chain processes retailers can offer more products, more product availability and shorter lead times. Quality is of course a given.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 22, 2024

A KPI is a practical and objective measurement of progress, either: Towards a predetermined goal, or Against a required standard of performance It might help to think of a KPI as something like an instrument on a car dashboarda speedometer, for example. Why Are KPIs Important?

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The Lean Thinker

MARCH 23, 2023

During the war there was huge growth and turnover within the industrial base as production shifted from civilian products (locomotives, for example) to wartime production (tanks). The challenge, of course, is that nobody owns this material. Therefore, leaders intercede when something threatens production.

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The Lean Thinker

JULY 11, 2024

No matter which of those courses of action I chose, they are not things I can assign to someone else to do for me. If production fell behind, they extended lead times in the system (which is the worst thing you can do in this case). The expansion, examples and explanations are my interpretation. I have to do the work myself.

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The Lean Thinker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The fundamentals are based on the “Rules-in-Use” from Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System , a landmark HBR article by Steve Spear and H. The path for every product is simple and direct. The path a product follows deviates from the route specified. It is the direction that matters, not the reminders.

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Ship Monk

AUGUST 12, 2020

While it might seem like an afterthought in the grand scheme of things, an eye-catching product page is one of the major keys to Amazon success. Put yourself in your customers’ shoes — would you be more drawn to a clear, visually appealing product page or to a messy, disorganized one? For example, let’s say you sell phone cases.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2025

Product attributes: Product sizes, weights, and other relevant characteristics. Demand variability: The patterns of demand for each product. Labour productivity: Efficiency and productivity of picking, packing, and shipping activities. Customer order history: Historical customer order volumes and frequencies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2022

For example, the rapid increase in the price of oil to over $100 a barrel for WTI is sure to result in additional inflation in our current inflationary environment. Of course, fuel shortages can cause factory production delays that can subsequently hinder downstream production processes. Beyond Fossil Fuels.

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The Lean Thinker

MAY 27, 2020

For example – In sessions I facilitate, I routinely ask people if they can recall a time when they arrived home after work but realized they didn’t remember driving the route. How many opportunities to they have to make a mistake every day… every hour… in the course of their work?

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The Lean Thinker

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Compounding this was that, in his example, the training was TWI Job Instruction – how to train. Tyson took a quick show-of-hands poll and informally confirmed his hypothesis that most people who take the TWI Job Instruction 10 hour course are already engaged in training and teaching.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In the supply chain arena, the need to make course corrections is exploding. Warehouse management systems rely on RF scans of locations and products. The platform has thresholds that say, for example, “If the dollar value of orders changes a little, that doesn’t matter. Business cycles are compressing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the course of updating our annual research on the supply chain planning market , I talked to executives across the industry. Alex Pradhan, Product Strategy Leader John Galt Solutions, told me that “all planning vendors have bold marketing around AI.” Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 11, 2024

We spend a lot of time researching products before we buy, but in the end we may still feel uncertain. And when we feel uncertain, humans tend to look for examples of what others in our situation have done. We’ll give you some examples of social proof, and we’ll even rank them in terms of trustworthiness. What is Social Proof?

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Log-hub

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the fast-paced and consumer-driven market, logistics is more than just delivering products. At its core, reverse logistics deals with the flow of products moving backwards in the supply chain. This can include product returns, recycling, refurbishment, and warranty recovery. To recover value or ensure proper disposal.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 19, 2024

The circular economy is a model that involves sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing, and recycling existing materials and products as long as possible. In this way, the life cycle of products is extended. The apparel industry is a prime example. Businesses, of course, seek to maximize profits.

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Now, That's Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2021

When sales forecasts are accurate, companies know they’ll have enough product supply to meet customer demand for those goods. And even if there’s an imbalance, good forecasts allow organizations to course-correct before a real problem emerges. Planning is obviously key,” says Chrapko.

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The Lean Thinker

JANUARY 25, 2024

They were competing with one another for a place in the production queue. He was an hourly associate whose nominal job was to pull the paperwork, match it up with raw material, and stage the work package into the production queue. In this working example, asking the shop floor workforce to fix this problem would be futile.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2024

Georgia-Pacific and its subsidiaries manufacture and distribute a wide range of consumer products, including bath tissue, paper towels, napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, and building products. Orders come in, and customers expect their product to be delivered when they want it.

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The Lean Thinker

MARCH 30, 2018

Of course, had we done this correctly we would have gone back in time to the previous KataCon, gotten the profiles from the attendees lists, interviewed people, and put together profiles for “typical” people who attend. For example, for an ideal retail experience, a mom with two kids in tow would be a different customer than a single guy.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Successful procurement leaders are operating smarter by leveraging analytics and technology such as integrated suites to generate clean data (at least if they have a unified data mode) and master data management solutions for addressing issues in back end systems, cleaning and normalizing suppliers’ records, for example. How do you do that?

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WorkWave

MARCH 27, 2025

Of course, those working in last-mile delivery already know that its impossible to talk about delivery days without also touching on an intrinsically linked topic: customer satisfaction. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a strong example, issuing regulations on data privacy for those in the EU.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 2, 2025

While the primary distribution operation was relatively simple, mainly involving line haul transportation from production plants to various regional distribution centres, the secondary operation comprised multi-drop routes comprising up to 30 deliveries per vehicle per day. KPI dashboards and reporting: This is linked to tip #3 above.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

However, Amazon North America is primarily retail sales of consumer products, but includes subscription services as well. Of course, Amazon is investing heavily in its infrastructure and working toward market share gains, likely in detriment to earnings. So I consider it a reasonable point of reference. percent profit margin.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Whereas online courses and programmes were previously managed as a separate entity, they are now an integral part of most academic systems. Most of the market share comes from content-related online learning products. The study showed that upwards of 30 percent of American students enrolled in at least one online course in 2018.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 17, 2022

Of course, we subsequently share interesting insights in Logistics Viewpoints articles. The most promising technologies enter the productization phase. There are currently more than 1500 go-lives of technologies that passed through the productization phase into commercialization and industrialization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This new metal 3D printing technology could revolutionize the way large industrial products like planes and cars are made, reducing the cost and improving the resilience of US supply chains. With production this slow, 3D printing cannot be used in high scale manufacturing. But many products are personalized.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

For example, while not unique to any one country, issues such as heat and high humidity must be allowed for in many aspects supply chain operation in a hot country (like Thailand, for example) warehouse design included. Why Warehouse Ventilation is Key Warehouse ventilation is key to a safe, healthy and productive working environment.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Prescriptive analytics “describes a set of analytical capabilities that finds a course of action to meet a predefined objective, such as maximizing revenue or minimizing costs.” This is a great example of how machine learning can improve productivity and free up resources from time-consuming tasks. . Prescriptive Analytics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In warehouses, for example, one solution is labor management. Labor management systems break the work down into very granular activities, set targets for doing those tasks in an allotted period of time, and measure how workers do against the time standards over the course of the day.

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WorkWave

JANUARY 20, 2025

Lets explore how AI and BI empower these industries, using specific examples to illustrate their transformative potential. This proactive approach results in a significant reduction in operational downtime over the course of a year. The Importance of Focused Data Not all data is created equal.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 6, 2022

Transportation is, of course, a major source of green house emissions. But the product roadmap has them adding this functionality for other transportation modes in the future. Derek Gittoes, a vice president of supply chain management product strategy at Oracle, said “this is very much an estimate.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

And of course, Oracle with their investments in Cloud computing, Internet of Things technology, and artificial intelligence can be used to minimize inputs while increasing productivity. For example, an air conditioning manufacturer might sell not just the air conditioner but a yearly service agreement. Uber has an ecosystem.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

For almost 40 years, more and more high-speed doors from Efaflex have been reliably doing their job in the production of Wernsing Feinkost GmbH in Addrup-Essen/Oldenburg, Germany. The production halls of Wernsing Feinkost GmbH are as dynamic as the relationship between the two business partners.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For example, you can optimise for cost, profit, or service, but not for all of them. Indeed, the higher the level of service your company aspires to, particularly regarding product availability, the more inventory you will likely hold. That’s why, for most companies with products to sell, high service levels are a critical goal.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 14, 2022

Of course, the pandemic then hit global shores, not to mention the ripple effects of global trade wars. Recent lockdowns in mainland China left global manufacturers reeling even further due to deteriorating factory production. Low labour productivity. In 2019, China accounted for 28.7 Challenges to growth with supply chain.

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The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Of course that implies that we (our community) is still largely stuck in the same groove we were a decade ago. It took four 11×17 (A3 size) sheets taped together to depict what happened as raw steel came in one end of the building and was cut, bent, welded, painted, and assembled with purchased components into the final product.

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