Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

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. Supplier management, materials planning and transportation coordination all come under the procurement umbrella. What is Logistics?

Manufacturing Procurement 75

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 22, 2024

A KPI is a practical and objective measurement of progress, either: Towards a predetermined goal, or Against a required standard of performance It might help to think of a KPI as something like an instrument on a car dashboarda speedometer, for example. Why Are KPIs Important?

Supply Chains 74

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Third party logistics providers that consider their activity to be rooted in traditional transport and the physical carriage of goods may go the way of the American railroads, which failed to see how aircraft and the private motor car would so drastically affect their transportation market and rob them of so much of their market share.

3PL 74

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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.

Supply Chain Planning Software 140

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The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A work crew typically consisted of three to half a dozen men (and they were all men) who were task organized to strip the coal off the seam face, shovel it into mining carts, and move those carts to the transport system. The work also met every definition of “difficult, dirty and dangerous.”

Modeling Software 259

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 7, 2024

As freight transportation costs continue to rise year-on-year, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and any other organisations that are part of a supply chain must think smarter about pushing down the cost of moving goods from A to B. Many companies use air freight more for reliability than speed.

Cost Reduction 97

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

The supply chain design solution, for example, continues to grow in depth and usability. And a new solution, that applies machine learning to making better ongoing transportation routing and mode decisions, is particularly interesting. Coupa meets this definition.

Supply Chain Design Software 104

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