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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

We’ll begin with a look at pricing strategy. Do You Lack Confidence in Your Pricing Strategies? If not, your pricing strategies could inadvertently limit your profit margins , either by throttling revenue or gifting sales to your competitors. Are You Missing Opportunities in Pricing Strategy?

Negotiating Skills 98

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2019

For example, if speedy delivery is a part of your service strategy (which is often the case in today’s on-demand environment), you will either need to locate your warehouses close to customers, or close to the facilities of your preferred carriers. Your distribution strategy too, will have a bearing on network optimisation.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

Improve Inventory Management Will your logistics outsourcing strategy include contract warehousing? Let’s take ecommerce as an example. Outsource for Supply Chain Improvement—When it Makes Sense To summarise, outsourcing some, or even all, of your supply chain activities, can be an effective improvement strategy.

Outsourcing 98

Outsourcing Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Software Cost Reduction 98

ShipLilly

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

When the pandemic led to social distancing and lockdowns, the age of eCommerce received a great boost. Historical data, as well as informed projections, can be useful in this exercise. This is a risky strategy for perishable goods as the future is not always predicted accurately.

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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! Reverse Logistics Strategy 2: Make it Painless. Reverse Logistics Strategy 3: Make it Profitable. Clearly, successful reverse logistics cannot be left to luck. A plan is necessary.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2022

A big part of what companies need to do when building a future strategy is to look out into the future and say, “These are the things that we think we want to do and be five years from now”. Historically, this product ‘footprinting’ exercise was both tedious and expensive. What does that look like? What criteria is key?

Supply Chain Planning Software 55

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 21, 2016

That’s not to say that the following signs and symptoms are harbingers of disaster, but they should certainly prompt a distribution network design review, along with a modeling exercise to check if your outbound supply chain is maintaining that all-important balance between cost and service. Network Inflexibility.

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Skip the Stages and Move Straight to Omnichannel It seems there’s little benefit to simply adding eCommerce as a new channel to complement a real-world fashion retail presence. Obviously this requires intelligent use of information technology, process management, and resources.

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