Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

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. 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

JANUARY 2, 2025

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? Let’s take a brief look at some of them.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Of course, there is no quick and easy way to curb increases in the cost of energy and labour, but now is an excellent time to start thinking about practical ways to reduce energy usage and increase labour productivity and efficiency. There are several possible ways to eliminate this form of energy wastage.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

As product flows rapidly shifted and hard baked assumptions about lead times and sourcing locations were put to test, users across many organizations bypassed their planning systems and turned to excel sheets, internal data science teams or non-traditional supply chain vendors who could deliver AI based solutions at a faster turn.

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Now, That's Logistics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

By putting data into the hands of the companies, business partners, and customers that want it, supply chain visibility helps all stakeholders track products from the point of manufacture to the final destination—and all points in between. 5 Good Supply Chain Visibility Strategies. Break down your data silos.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

The first one arrived a few years ago when a growing number of companies started treating supply chain design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise. Would LLamasoft start competing more directly with other best-of-breed supply chain planning vendors?

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

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. How Can Your Business Benefit from Freight Benchmarking? Freight Benchmarking: How to Do it Right.

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GoShip Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

How to Create an Effective Inbound Freight Management Strategy To ensure that your inbound freight systems are seamless and efficient, you will have to pour time and energy into implementing the new processes into your business. Exercise patience when asking freight providers to take on new lanes. Communicate in a timely manner.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2018

TMS Strategy & Building the Business Case. It begins with a strategy project that documents the current state process, information, and data flows. It requires gathering data, driving towards answering the question “Where is the money?” So, for simplicity sake, let’s just focus on TMS.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2018

A plan is necessary, possibly based on one of the following strategies. Reverse Logistics Strategy 1: Don’t do it! IT vendor Dell, for example, handles requests for returns via its support organisation. Reverse Logistics Strategy 2: Make it Painless. Reverse Logistics Strategy 3: Make it Profitable.

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Sabinext

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

They need skilled and ongoing maintenance, and as the data above shows, the stakes are too high for them to fail to support their millions of inhabitants and thousands of businesses, as well as their country’s economic health. Data-driven approach. Anticipatory shipping is also becoming reality, enabled by a data-driven approach.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2024

In particular, fleet managers must start with an inventory of their devices, identifying the cellular technologies in use, the cellular module vendor name and part number, their physical location and a priority rating. Then, an evaluation of the alternative connectivity options is advised.

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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. For example, companies often make the mistake of ramping up performance evaluation only when one of their vendors begins to let them down. Why is this a mistake?

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2017

Data and processes are fundamental to supply chain work. Understanding data and being able to draw actionable conclusions from it, using IT or other tools made available, is a capability of growing importance. Inventory (inventory specialist, vendor-managed inventory/replenishment specialist). No person is an island.

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Blog on Log

AUGUST 19, 2006

However, in reality most strategic planning exercises neither embed foresight, nor create responsive networks. This will help reduce safety stocks and hence costs, improve customer service and make the Logistics network more adaptive. The periodicity may range from six months to five years.

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The Logistics Academy

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Another trend is learning how to deal with the avalanche of data that supply chain managers have at their fingertips. Data from barcodes, RFID tags, GPS systems, and the Internet of Things (IoT) mean that managers not only have to be good analysts, but they also have to be good at understanding the supply chain system instinctually.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 18, 2017

These responsibilities extend across functions and when properly exercised, comprise supply, demand, distribution, production, purchasing and capacity planning. If your company is serious about making inventory-planning improvements, provision should be made for appropriate data-processing capabilities.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Supporting Next- Gen Asset Management through data portability and smart Infrastructure Equipment''s are getting smarter, even our ever smart Maintenance folks are now equipped with smart devices which helps them to perform their not so easy day to day EAM functions in an effective manner.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 20, 2012

Cloud & Big Data. Many large product/equipment vendors make more money through warranties and repair, especially when these happen onsite, so there could be some resistance there. This helped in reducing the failure rates, maintenance cost and loss in production time. Instance Consolidation Strategy. Customer Service.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Today we will go into detail on using the available data created in the processing of shipments within transportation management and other related logistics management for continuous improvement. . 6 Benefits of Using the Right Data in Logistics & Transportation Management for Continuous Improvement. Order Processing Capabilities.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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. With more easily accessible data and bookings, alternatives to, yes, historically alternative routes suddenly become far more viable.

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FLS Transport

JANUARY 4, 2021

And while retailers were able to modestly re-stock going into peak, data now shows that they lack adequate inventory. One data point shows inventories declined 9% year-over-year while sales increased 9%. Per the FMCSA calculations, this represented a very deep cut of 4.4% Inventory replenishment will continue well into 2021.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

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 In 2014, a survey by Tompkins Consortium delivered a shocking revelation.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

From a purely automotive perspective, the US vehicle handling ports exported 4m vehicles last year and imported twice that number, according to data from analyst PwC. According to GE Transportation, the system integrates data from across the port to better align people and resources and more efficiently move cargo through it.

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