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What are Reverse Logistics?

Logistics Bureau

Products come back in dribs and drabs, not in nearly packaged batches. Hidden Opportunities for Supply Chain Cost Reductions Of course hidden costs, if you can find them, mean hidden opportunities. Much depends upon the nature of your supply chain operation of course. Tempting, but wrong. Almost everything can change.

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The History of Fleet Route Optimisation in Logistics

Logistics Bureau

So thats the route were taking in this article (no pun intended), we’ll be exploring the evolution of fleet route optimisation from a time-consuming pen-and-paper exercise to a high-tech process that, in some cases, can be completed in minutes. But first, what is route optimisation?

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Building Brand Loyalty with Last-Mile Logistics

Morai Logistics

Over the course of the past several months, Morai Logistics has highlighted a significant rise in e-commerce shopping. This figure has significantly increased over the course of the last few years. Delivering to E-commerce Markets. Statistically, this global market will continue to generate sales that reach an impressive $4.5

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To Slot or not to Slot? That is the question

Logistics Bureau

Of course some warehouses may skip some of these steps but for those that need to pick products and dispatch products to meet customer requirements, the location of products within the warehouse significantly affects the efficient warehouse operations. All of these symptoms potentially are a sign that a slotting exercise is overdue.

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Key Factors to Consider When Planning and Designing Warehouses

Logistics Bureau

Of course, it would be possible to write an entire book on this particular subject, so for the sake of keeping this article relatively brief, I’ll stick to a short explanation of crucial factors to consider when planning a warehouse network (even if it is a network of one). It can go further than this, of course.

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Cost to Serve Analysis—And the Costs of Neglecting It

Logistics Bureau

And, of course, I will also share how knowing your cost-to-serve will help you to solve those all-too-familiar performance gremlins. Of course, it’s always possible to factor estimates of those costs into your product or service pricing, but then you can find yourself overpricing them. Are Your Profit Margins Declining?

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No Supply Chain Strategy? Here’s How to Develop One

Logistics Bureau

Your fact-finding efforts should seek to determine what your customers want in the following aspects of supply chain service: Packaging and labelling requirements. Ideally, though, evaluating your position against competitors should not solely be a KPI benchmarking exercise. What do You Need to Know? Delivery service levels.