Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 27, 2023

Transitioning from legacy systems presents hurdles that add to the true cost. Analyze potential gains – WMS spending makes sense when you consider that an implementation can save your organization between 15% and 25% in inventory, provide almost 100% inventory accuracy, and reduce labor costs between 20% and 30%.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 31, 2017

That’s probably one of the first differences you’d notice between a warehouse of today and that of 25-plus years ago—and of course it’s down to technology. In the process they have made many warehouse activities faster for people to perform and generated efficiencies to reduce labour-intensiveness.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Transportation costs: Freight rates, fuel and labour costs, and other transportation expenses. Competitor intelligence: Distribution strategies and network designs of your competitors. Inventory turnover: Inventory turns for each SKU. Transportation options: Costs and lead times for each available transportation mode.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The answer, of course, is yes. 3PLs can quickly assess client-level profitability via accurate cost-to-serve metrics and analytics on demand while creating a verifiable audit trail of events and charges that reduce potential credit settlements and contribute to customer satisfaction. But can technology do more?

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GlobalTranz

MAY 21, 2015

Many manufacturers & retailers have found that they can use state of the art supply chain management to reduce inventory & warehousing costs while speeding up delivery to the end customer. Managers should ensure that a firm’s transportation strategy supports its competitive strategy.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Single people mark the occasion by spoiling and treating themselves to gifts and presents, but it wasn’t until Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba chose the date to offer heavily discounted merchandise on its platform for 24 hours, starting at midnight on the 11th November, 2009, that Singles’ Day became a major commercial event.

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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. At present, they aren’t. It’s a question that hits at the heart of strategic policy, if not national military strategy. 1] See Eccles, H.,

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WorkWave

MARCH 27, 2025

But before you can overcome the challenges borders present in last-mile delivery, its crucial that they better understand what youre up against. 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.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Unlike traditional, in-classroom education settings, vocational programs blend on-the-job learning opportunities with course credits and education. Vocational training is also substantially less expensive than obtaining a degree traditionally in an educational institution.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 23, 2016

This is nothing new of course. Equipment and technology intensive: The fresh supply chain operator must utilise specialised—and expensive— equipment and technology to prolong the freshness of produce and present it to consumers in the best possible condition. Things You Need For Fresh Supply Chain Success.

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Freightera

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Electric vehicles (EVs) are quickly becoming a central part of the push to reduce emissions and combat climate change. There are several key issues with scaling the production of electric freight trucks: High Production Costs: Electric trucks are currently more expensive to manufacture, primarily due to battery production costs.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

These include increased CO2 taxes, expensive emission certificates and a complete ban on internal combustion engines, which will make electric drives mandatory for all vehicles by 2030 at the latest. The post STILL presents energy system webinar appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine. Suitability criteria. Fuel cell systems.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 13, 2015

There are, of course, tactical metrics for accounting functions like viewing open and paid invoices or the ability to identify when shipments are due, but also must include strategic metrics and reports for more in-depth analysis. Every aspect of your shipping will be displayed for you to develop new strategies from.

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FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Of course, there’s another advantage. The answer lies in how shippers present the information to carriers – indicating how carriers can benefit from tapping backhaul opportunities in in-demand markets. Email and fax don’t cut it. That includes seeing which lanes have the highest activity and will incur additional costs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

a large capital expense that typically requires five years of operation to achieve a full return on investment. Capacity can be easily ramped up or down due to product seasonality, holidays and of course global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Implement successful omnichannel strategies and business models.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

But, of course, with so many cases in such a vastly populated nation, the risk of a new variant emerging to start the whole cycle over again cannot be underestimated. For companies wishing to decouple their supply chains from China but struggling to do so, the current situation presents an unsettling start to 2023.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The strategy involves leveraging a competitive bidding process or reverse auction for the most expensive type of freight movement – spot market/expedited freight. Thankfully, we don’t have to rely on hypotheticals to prove the concept because there is actual hard data revealing just how well these tools and strategies perform.

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WorkWave

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We’re setting out on a journey to understand how to transform your dream into reality, navigating legal documents, and NEMT software, hiring competent drivers, and crafting an effective marketing strategy. It includes buying vehicles (ADA compliant, of course), office space utility bills and insurance costs. Plan wisely.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

While it may seem counterintuitive that fire is even a risk in spaces designed to maintain cold temperatures, cold storage in fact presents a huge fire hazard for warehouse designers and builders, life safety installation companies and facility owners. So as the demand for refrigerated products grows, so does the need for better fire safety.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In fact, part of Mr. Wakefield’s presentation involved coaching prospective customers on the arguments that can be made to IT. IT folks are uncomfortable implementing and supporting a technology they view as being cutting edge and unproven. Overcoming objections from IT, and implementing a cutting edge solution, may be getting easier.

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3PL Links

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Define your returns management strategy: Analyze how effective returns management could help you lower expenses, enhance customer service, and even boost revenue. Continuously reassess and improve the process: Although this phase is present in every process but is frequently skipped, leaders are nonetheless responsible for it.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Assuming the price for which you sell your products remains consistent, reduced holding costs driven by increasing inventory turns, will bring you greater profits. As you might expect, a reduction in days inventory typically represents a performance improvement. Consequently, it makes sense to know the precise tally of those expenses.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 17, 2023

This has become critically important given how issues such as Brexit, the pandemic, war in Ukraine and the weather have each highlighted the role chilled and frozen warehousing has in creating resilience in our food supply chains; not forgetting of course how Covid revealed the centrality of low temperature storage in medicine and pharmacology.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

But more blatantly than ever, container liners – and especially Maersk – are on a collision course with the tech companies that provide digital infrastructure for selling goods. Maersk has unabashedly championed vertical integration for years, advocating an “end-to-end” strategy. No end to end-to-end. Amazon as a carrier.

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WorkWave

MAY 24, 2024

Of course topics like due diligence, deal structure and valuation matter, but are there other variables you should be factoring into the equation outside of the money? This might include an analysis of revenue, cost of goods sold, operating expenses and non-operating expenses. How do you know your company is ready?

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WorkWave

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We’re setting out on a journey to understand how to transform your dream into reality, navigating legal documents, and NEMT software, hiring competent drivers, and crafting an effective marketing strategy. It includes buying vehicles (ADA compliant, of course), office space utility bills and insurance costs. Plan wisely.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Logistics, much like strategy and tactics, is a process or a way of thinking. Allow me to summarise two or three hundred years of major developments in creating and sustaining deployed forces by telling you that logistics has become increasingly important to the fulfilment of strategy. Logistics is an enormous problem.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Your sales price minus your production cost is your overall profit or margin; at least, before allowing for further expenses. So far, so good… but what about those further expenses? The real value of knowing your Cost to Serve a given customer is to identify opportunities to increase or recover profit, rather than cut losses.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

That in turn can assist with the next topic, that of efficient order picking, which of course has its own pathing and routeing issues. AI will be able to improve the choice and operation of picking strategies – and the optimum may differ according to the type of goods, or even the time of day.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 24, 2023

But cold stores are expensive to build and equip, and although the CCF recently estimated that some 16.7 Fewer battery charges or changes obviously improve productivity, but also reduce the space needed for recharging. This is due to its approach to safeguarding electronics and batteries.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Shipping air inside expensive freight containers has never been a cost-effective approach to transportation. If so, an increase of around 20% capacity utilisation, from 65% to 85 or 90%, will dramatically reduce the number of shipments, returning millions of dollars in saved freight fees. Increasing Container Utilisation: How to Do It.

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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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Conger

MAY 28, 2021

And the results indicate that better training reduces operators’ errors. According to OSHA as well as many other experts, when errors are reduced, accidents are reduced as well. Online courses. In-person courses. Online Courses. Thus, online courses only get operators partially qualified.

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WorkWave

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Using a template also ensures consistency across your estimates, helping you to present a professional, cohesive brand to prospects and customers. Business information, including: Business name Address Website Phone number Customer information, including: Name Address Phone number And, of course, the estimate!

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 16, 2024

But, of course, efficient forklift fleet utilisation is about more than just knowing how often a truck is used: managers need to consider how operators are performing too. Telematics systems, such as Toyota’s I_Site, can help safety conscious companies reduce the potential for accidents in several ways.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 1, 2018

Of course, it can also open new opportunities for tomorrow. Their answer has been to apply cost reduction and lean practices. This frees up their human counterparts for work that AI cannot do, such as creating a new supply chain strategy. Very complex problems or issues that are harder to define have been less present.

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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. In the meantime, we should study its strengths and weaknesses, and the how and why of its present design. Logistics readiness is not just a matter of prioritising Defence resources.

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