Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

ARC Advisory Group, the company that I work for, releases a number of market studies on a number of technologies. These studies utilize a comprehensive bottom-up process for evaluating markets. ARC’s definition of omni-channel fulfillment is end-delivery centric.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

As a general definition, a 3PL helps a company to get its offering, conceived in place A, into the hands of its customers in place B. The solution is to back up, figuratively speaking, to the general definition of the need and see how overall trends and developments in the world could make this need map onto other, different solutions.

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The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

These teams were distributed through the mine, and because the distance and working conditions really precluded a lot of supervision, the teams largely oversaw their own work. The work also met every definition of “difficult, dirty and dangerous.” The study I am citing here was commissioned to determine why.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Let’s start with a definition: any device that can perceive its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal is engaged in some form of artificial intelligence (AI). It is also worth pointing out, that based on this definition, not all forms of machine learning are particularly complicated.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Now let’s get a little more granular in this study of supply chain KPIs, and look at some examples like the perfect order rate, as well as other KPIs you can use to measure supply chain performance. With KPIs, less is definitely more. Can you imagine if you had to try and keep an eye on 20 different instruments?

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 1, 2025

Action Message: An alert generated by a materials requirement planning (MRP) or distribution requirements planning (DRP) system. Typical components of an APS solution include demand planning, production planning and scheduling, transportation planning, and distribution planning. See National Distribution Centre.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

References and case studies abound to show how organisations use logistics outsourcing to become more efficient and more profitable. Actions speak louder than words or titles, however; not to mention the fact that industry definitions of what exactly an LLP or a 4LP does tend to vary. Risk-reward incentives address motivation.

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