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What is Logistics?

Logistics Bureau

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. What is Logistics? Logistics is the management of the flow of resources between the point of origin and the point of destination.

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The Ultimate Guide to Outsourced Warehousing for Business Growth

3PL Links

Warehouse outsourcing can be the answer if logistics operations at your organization are prone to frequent breakdowns. With staff dedicated to logistics management, outsourced businesses have fewer failures and make better use of their resources. As a result, it promotes market competitiveness and customer happiness.

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Logistics Technologies: 4 Benefits of RFID, AIDC, and IoT Based Technologies to Shippers

GlobalTranz

The supply chain is playing host to emerging logistics technologies and modern marvels of an industrialized society. For example, RFID logistics technologies are being used to ensure proper asset tracking, asserts Motorola. In the global economy, the risk becomes even greater.

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Disaster recovery: Prepared for the worst?

Automotive Logistics

Renesas Electronics, for example, the world’s largest manufacturer of automotive microcontrollers, was forced to cut production by 70%, shifting from its badly damaged Naka wafer fabrication factory in the Japanese coastal city of Hitachinaka to a number of other sites around the company. .” Emergency response: Weathering the storms.

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Emergency response: Weathering the storms

Automotive Logistics

At Ford, for example, Bong points to the use of a sophisticated forecasting, monitoring and action tool that the company started using several years ago, which maps and monitors every node in the supply chain. “The The problem is that, whilst logistics chains have evolved, the insurance risk assessments sometimes lag behind.”.

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Aptiv takes a global approach to mobility

Automotive Logistics

Aptiv is taking a highly centralised approach to the logistics operation supporting the new division and has made Jeffrey Richards its global director of logistics and supply chain operations, responsible for the sourcing, network design, continuous improvement and emergency logistics for all operating units.

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Testing times

Automotive Logistics

What has been an even more immediate challenge from a logistics point of view is the stress on production and distribution, including longer lead times resulting from the introduction of the new tests, and the need to find additional storage space for vehicles awaiting certification.