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. We’ll begin with a look at pricing strategy. Do You Lack Confidence in Your Pricing Strategies? It’s unlikely, however, that the effects of your pricing strategies are quite that simple.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 20, 2025

As youll know, if you follow our blog regularly, Logistics Bureau does a great deal of work related to supply chain strategy development and alignment. As a result, weve discovered that many companies lack a defined and documented supply chain strategy. A company without a supply chain strategy is at a competitive disadvantage.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Of course, as this is an ultimate guide to product slotting, it would only be fitting to leave you with a statement about the cost benefits if it includes an explanation of how they come about. Therefore, any slotting strategy should focus on minimising such travel. Or a similarly sized reduction in warehouse labour costs ?

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Logistics in War

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

The risks accepted in not beginning are, of course, high and err towards a professional negligence that ultimately costs time, resources and people at the time of a future war. Firstly, it recommended conducting realistic wargames and exercises to reflect threats and the capability of the ‘logistics enterprise’ to respond.

Military 100

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Logistics in War

AUGUST 18, 2019

Of course additional funding and attention can improve the capability and capacity of any military force to sustain itself in peace and on operations. All militaries enjoy large-scale exercises, simulations and desk-top analyses but very rarely do they focus upon the logistics process.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Of course, it is helpful to have some statistics on hand to validate the statement above. Supply chain strategy is critical to business success, but companies often underestimate its importance and hence pay it less leadership attention than other areas of operation. Supply Chain Strategy. What’s wrong with this picture?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 19, 2022

To assist with the short-term solution, the answer is an extensive data-gathering exercise. Align your business and supply chain strategies. In the long term, manufacturers need a robust business strategy that drives their supply chain strategy. Use data to improve operations. The benefits of ERP.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2019

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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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Through the course of 2017, and because of my academic research, I have been extremely fortunate to interview a range of senior military officers and public servants. Strategy is a concept of relating means to end; it is complex and subtle and is about thinking, vision, learning as opposed to planning. By David Beaumont.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 22, 2023

Contrary to popular opinion the Standard is anything but a box-ticking exercise, especially in its 2015 reiteration. Of course, any reputable company has processes and procedures designed to assure quality performance. We believe this is a major step forward for our business, and for our customers and indeed for our suppliers.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 30, 2015

A huge part of effective strategy in any business function is planning. Twelve months can seem like a long time when you consider everything that happened over the course of the last 365 days. Our firm works with companies to identify and execute strategies for growth and value creation. where has the time gone!).

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Supply chain strategy is critical to business success, but is often underestimated in its importance and hence receives less strategic attention than other areas of operation. Supply Chain Strategy. In other words, the majority did not recognise the need for close alignment between supply chain and general business strategies.

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Golden Rule #1: Meaningful KPIs Require a Meaningful Strategy. I’ve written many posts on this blog about the importance of having a supply chain strategy that’s aligned with the overall business plan, and why it is a mistake to have misaligned strategies. I’ve also described some of the issues that can arise from such an error.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Of course, you can set that goal, or rather, that set of goals (because being the best in your business normally means you must beat the competition in a number of disciplines) yourself, but if it’s to exceed that of the very best today, you must know how well the very best is performing. Click To Tweet. Know Your Distance to Target.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 15, 2016

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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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 2, 2021

Of course, the consequences, and their seriousness, will depend on the criticality of the product, but availability challenges are never desirable. One way to get a handle on this is to measure their track record of product availability.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 30, 2020

Once this exercise is completed, your company can then assess the risk from tier-two suppliers onwards. The companies most likely to emerge strongly from the Coronavirus crisis are those that had diversified their operations and implemented multi-sourcing strategies. 2) Diversify Your Operations.

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UL EHS- Sustainability

OCTOBER 31, 2019

But the most successful learning and development teams also understand how to measure the success of each training course and react accordingly. The best training strategy in the world can’t fix operational issues. Certainly, employee development plays a pivotal role in every successful enterprise today. Thank you, big data.)

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 5, 2020

With current events in mind, managing future supply chain disruptions will be an integral component of corporate strategy. Creating supply chain resilience is a holistic exercise that involves more than just a few savvy logistics people. How then to build a strategy? Unpredictable is not a reason to be unprepared.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Of course, the economic viability of these types of shipments is limited to specific commodities. While COVID did see some modal shifts of everything from wheat to Peloton exercise bikes, there are certainly products that are less likely candidates for shifts. He’s proven go-to-market and growth leadership across industries.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

Often, in our experience, the problem is a human one… It’s not the data, not the process, not the technology, or the strategy, but the people. S&OP is ostensibly a numbers game, of course. Of course, the goal(s) might change over time, such as when existing ones are achieved, but that is fine. The Executive Sponsor.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

In more than 25 years of private practice and consulting with businesses of all sizes, I’ve learned that one of the most beneficial exercises is asking the right questions. He welcomes inquiries from individual drivers, fleets and logistics companies for tax preparation and tax-cutting strategies. 2: Is there an emergency plan?

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

But, of course, what those circumstances are is for you to decide. Improve Inventory Management Will your logistics outsourcing strategy include contract warehousing? Without further ado, then, let’s move on so I can fulfil the promise above.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 31, 2021

Unless your company has already invested in the processes and technology to support the addition of online retail logistics to your channel strategy, attaining a single view of your inventory and customers could prove difficult. You will probably find, from your initial analysis, that your cost-to-serve follows the 80/20 rule.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 6, 2020

Of course additional funding and attention can improve the capability and capacity of any military force to sustain itself in peace and on operations. All militaries enjoy large-scale exercises, simulations and desk-top analyses but very rarely do they focus upon the logistics process.

Military 59

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Logistics in War

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I have been extremely fortunate to interview a range of senior military officers and public servants through the course of academic research in 2017. Strategy is a concept of relating means to end; it is complex and subtle and is about thinking, vision, learning as opposed to planning. Strategic failure.

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Logistics in War

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

The truth, of course, lies somewhere in between. Fourthly, the logistics organisation must be exercised and be the subject of experiments which qualify risks. Alternatively, it is also tempting to answer ‘just enough’. Yet giving this answer also requires a tremendous ability for insight as to future requirements.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Golden Rule #1: Meaningful KPIs Require a Meaningful Strategy. I’ve written many posts on this blog about the importance of having a supply chain strategy aligned with the overall business plan, and why it is a mistake to have misaligned strategies. Of course, some “standard” KPIs might fit flawlessly.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Whatever your competitive strategy, though, your supply chain goals should support it. Of course, you can have as many other metrics as you like, but the KPIs are the ones that should form a catalyst for action. If your KPIs are common ones, it shouldn’t be a problem, of course. That’s what makes them KEY performance indicators.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

The answer is to benchmark your freight, of course. At Logistics Bureau, we want to help you with that, so we’re publishing this brief guide to help you if you haven’t already included freight benchmarking in your management strategies or want to benchmark more effectively than you are now.

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Uniqlo combines the use of sophisticated forecasting technology to predict demand trends, with a just-in-time supply chain strategy straight from the Toyota playbook. The result is not hyper-accurate forecasting, but a supply chain that can react so fast to changing circumstances that forecasting inaccuracies are rarely damaging.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

The Path to Cost Reduction: Intel decided to try what was considered an unlikely supply chain strategy for the semiconductor industry: make to order. The company grew substantially over the course of two decades, achieving a considerable portion of that growth by way of acquisitions. Procurement analysis. Supplier communication.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Of course, many of your hires may come to you with a ready-made supply chain education, but perhaps not all of them and besides, there is so much that can only be learned and made sense of outside the confines of academia. Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case Studies, by David Simchi-Levi et al.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MAY 20, 2020

Kamal’s two rooftop activities: reading and exercise. I’m doing some light exercise every morning and trying to get the family to join me. Opportunities because I get to focus and work with myself when I am writing a strategy or documents. and a printer of course. I’m missing my small and dedicated team in Pugnido.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Horizontal integration has become the go-to value chain strategy over the last two or three decades, to the point where companies that insisted upon remaining vertical became the outliers in a global field of distributed organisations. For Starbucks, vertical integration is a risk mitigation strategy. Ferrero: They Must be Nuts.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2017

Strange as it may seem, many business leaders don’t have the answers to these questions , because they’ve never conducted an exercise to understand the costs involved with supplying their customers. Development of profitable strategies for customer or product segmentation. High CTS/high revenue yield – love to hate.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 27, 2016

However based on observations made in the course of our consulting work, many organisations perceive it as a purely remedial or punitive exercise. None of the aforementioned supplier performance evaluation benefits can be gained through sporadic or one-off exercises. Is your company on a lean supply chain journey, for example?

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