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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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

5000 developers are working on product enhancements and extensions to the SAP spend management suite. With that level of investment, one would expect an aggressive product buildout. At SAP Spend Connect Live, held October 14-16 in Las Vegas, SAP did make several significant product announcements.

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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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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

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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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 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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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 3, 2018

But there’s an equally big story that’s just beginning: dealing with all the product returns. However, for e-commerce, that share ranges from 15 percent to 30 percent, depending on the product category.”. Of course, one company’s problem is another’s opportunity. How big of a problem is this?

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

To provide its customers worldwide with quick and easy access to service and sales, NORD Drivesystems equips its products with QR codes. “Almost all NORD production plants now pair our drive components with a QR code,” says Jörg Niermann, Marketing Manager. The paper-free alternative saves time and resources.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 1, 2024

Omnichannel refers to the ability of a consumer to get products fulfilled to them in various ways. A customer can of course buy goods in a store. Or they can order online and pick up the product at the store. There are several other fulfillment and product return options as well. Rules were used to make these decisions.

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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 Viewpoints

JANUARY 22, 2024

But electronics; industrial and manufactured; and apparel, footwear, and textiles make up the bulk of products detained. several countries have enacted legislation to ban products made with forced labor. Omnichannel refers to the ability of a consumer to get products fulfilled to them in various ways. Outside of the U.S.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Of course, this was an exaggeration, but it illustrated his point well. “ Of course, fiber optic land lines offer greater bandwidth. Most examples of warehouse robotics adoption in China are at operations in support of domestic consumption and these examples are predominantly consumer goods retail fulfillment operations.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

We have moved from product-level forecasts at a regional level to stock-keeping unit forecasts made at the store level. Using the right product classification allows companies to pay the correct tariffs. Paying the right tariffs is necessary to avoid government fines and calculate the true landed cost of products.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Doing the research for an Unit Load analysis for products in supermarkets for the logistics course, I came over a really interested, related topic: the product placement in supermarkets. At this level the top sellers are placed, meaning the products that usually are selling themselves very good and are more expensive.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 4, 2024

This can go both in both directions – a retail company may expand into becoming their own supplier, or a manufacturer may move into selling their products direct to consumers. In the modern day, there are plenty of other examples of vertical integration giving companies greater control over their output and ultimately more market power.

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Forto

APRIL 25, 2020

The supply chain, the heart of logistics, suffers from production and transport failures. Of course, this applies not only to the internal distribution of tasks. The post FreightHub stays on course – our crew successfully steers our customers digitally through the corona crisis appeared first on Forto.

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Forto

APRIL 9, 2020

The supply chain, the heart of logistics, suffers from production and transport failures. Of course, this applies not only to the internal distribution of tasks. The post FreightHub stays on course – our crew successfully steers our customers digitally through the corona crisis appeared first on FreightHub.

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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 Viewpoints

APRIL 19, 2023

Second, what is autonomous planning in supply chain, and what are some practical examples? In order to achieve this, demand planning, inventory planning, supply planning via procurement and/or production planning, along with fulfilment/allocation and even transportation planning need to be integrated.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As explained by Zvi Schreiber via Supply Chain Brief, decreasing profit margins and the demand for scalable technology will result in more carriers using digital channels to sell product directly to shippers. For example, Tesla plans to build a fleet of 500 autonomous trucks, says Kirsten Korosec of Fortune.

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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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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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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 Business Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2020

An example is automotive manufacturing, where automated vehicles move parts from station to station. This approach requires the scan to be high quality (no deformation for example) in order to match correctly. The longer it takes to make the vehicle operation work, of course, the higher also the installation costs.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 5, 2017

Markets change, consumers decide to purchase different products and economies fail. Enter: Product Manufacturing Ideation. . Enter: Product Manufacturing Ideation. . Product Manufacturing Ideation: Powered by Social Media & Crowdfunding. Of course, it provides another benefit as well.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2024

Some try delving into deep learning or a crash course in generative AI (GenAI), but I don’t recommend starting there. Workers from picking and packing to planning and procurement are in short supply, stimulating interest in increasing productivity of the existing workforce. What about generative AI? It doesn’t understand.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 31, 2023

Of course, moving forward also sets the tone for discussions about how Manhattan Associates customers are moving their businesses forward and how Manhattan is moving forward with its product roadmap. A number of unification examples and their benefits were provided.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

As the holiday shopping season reaches its peak, ecommerce business owners everywhere are crossing their fingers, hoping they have enough product in stock and that they didn’t order too much. In truth, demand forecasting, or estimating how much product you’ll sell in the future, is one of the toughest challenges for any ecommerce business.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Pay attention as we move through the building, because while a lot of things are different to the warehouse of today, many of them appear subtle to the eye, but have huge meaning in terms of warehouse efficiency and productivity. Perhaps the first thing you’ll notice is just how many people there are.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2022

OTM is a very mature application, for example. But the industry functionality is also being added in terms of new industry specific applications and an understanding of what functionality needs to be added across their suite of products to better support that industry’s unique processes. From a Product Company to a Services Company.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 26, 2018

Of course, it’s not really simple at all. A single product can have 100 different costs based on size, color and targeted markets. 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. Still, the coming of A.I.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Employee scarcity and high worker turnover are of critical impact to the efficiency and productivity of the nation’s warehouses, particularly when factoring in the costs of continually replacing and training new employees –which can equate to almost 25% of a worker’s average annual salary.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

And, of course, I will also share how knowing your cost-to-serve will help you to solve those all-too-familiar performance gremlins. Potential Factors in Declining Margins To get to the root of the problem, understanding the costs of production or purchasing will be a necessary starting point, but typically, more information will be needed.

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