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What is Logistics?

Logistics Bureau

Logistics is a confusing term that many people new to the industry have trouble with, not being entirely sure what it covers and what it doesn’t. So what is logistics? Well, as Logistics Bureau has decades of experience in the industry, we’re in a pretty good position to give you a definition of what logistics really is.

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A Guide to Supply Chain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Logistics Bureau

Many people get confused about KPIs or Key Performance Indicators in Logistics and Supply Chain operations. Still, in this article, I will help you evaluate the need for supply chain and logistics KPIs in your organisation, and identify which types of measurement might be most appropriate. Which ones to use?…

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Cost of Warehouse Management System Software

The Logistics of Logistics

You are Making Significant Logistics Strategy Changes : When you realize that your current WMS cannot support new processes effectively or at all. For example, a WMS vendor without its own label printing tools is unlikely to bring that topic to the table on their own, so make sure you know what questions to ask.

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Tariffs: A Brief History and the Debate of Whether They are Good or Bad

MTS Logistics

The port industry in Portugal definitely benefitted from, at first, no trade between the two powers, and then they kept benefiting when heavy tariffs resumed between Britain and France. For example, when colored TVs first hit the market, the prices for Australians were virtually unaffordable.

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Self-reliance and the sustainment of the force – logistics as the bedrock or quicksand of operations in a crisis

Logistics in War

The topic of logistics might seem to be matter for military commanders, being typically defined as the art and science of maintaining and moving forces or variations thereof. Logistics is the connective tissue between the military and the national economy, and is a verb as much as it is a noun.

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3PL Industry Trends and a Forthcoming Identity Crisis

Logistics Bureau

Marketing myopia may have been defined more than 50 years ago, but it still ails many a logistics organisation. 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. In addition, companies may also have to contend with a new form of marketing myopia.

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Breaking Down Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Trinity Logistics

Definitely no to the last one!) Common Forms of AI Computer Vision Face recognition is one example of Computer Vision. Machine Learning (ML) Predictive analytics is one example of Machine Learning. Deep Learning Playing a game of chess online with the computer program is an example of Deep Learning. When did it start?