Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Pop up warehouses, micro fulfillment centers, and warehousing-on-demand are all examples of how the nodes are becoming increasingly dynamic. For the longest time modeling and designing such nodes, modes, and flows has been the realm of Supply Chain Design. Sustainability initiatives can benefit through optimizing the carbon footprint.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2024

Supply chain policies and configurations can be evaluated and then optimized across the likely ranges of demand, supply, disruptions, and financial drivers – providing the best plans across strategic and tactical horizons. An example is insight beyond your four walls to understand how tier one, two, three, etc.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

The first one arrived a few years ago when a growing number of companies started treating supply chain design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise. As an example, a heavy equipment manufacturer used SupplyChainPlanning.com to create a collaborative planning app with its dealers.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

To do this, we built two representative models of a business. While businesses differ in complexity and size, for this exercise we extrapolated based on these $7.5Bn baselines. While businesses differ in complexity and size, for this exercise we extrapolated based on these $7.5Bn baselines.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

For example, forecasts are generated using the past three years of history, implicitly assuming history repeats. Traditional inventory optimization implementations often assume fixed network and flows. Key capacity constraints will need to be effectively and optimally managed before pursuing expansion opportunities.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

So, for example, outsourcing sales activity is not typically a good idea if yours is a retail sales company. For example, US-based companies may be quite fortunate if they have access to manufacturers right on their doorstep in Mexico, a country with far lower labour costs than the rest of North America.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2019

It includes some questions to answer in determining the number of warehouses required in a network, and their optimal locations. For example, we need to know if we can get to the required level of packaging unit. High availability of accurate throughput data will be of great aid to the outcome of the design or layout exercise.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

For example, you don’t want to assume that a single logistics strategy and service approach will meet all your customers’ needs. Ideally, though, evaluating your position against competitors should not solely be a KPI benchmarking exercise. Inventory optimization software. Network modeling and optimisation software.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Slotting a warehouse product is the same, for example, as placing your umbrella close to your front door at home, so it’s easy to pick it up and run when it’s raining, and you’re late for work. It also stands to reason that when you undertake a slotting exercise, you should think about it from the perspective of these activities.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2017

One person’s supply chain career might be focused on the specific area of freight forwarding, for example, whereas another person’s might encompass end-to-end operational management from raw materials management to customer invoicing. Workflow optimization. Supply chain is often what people define it to be. Financial planning.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Walmart may be the most famous example of a company that has succeeded primarily because of a well-developed and aligned supply chain strategy. For example, supplier performance issues can cause problems with inventory, order fill, on-time delivery performance, and customer-order lead times. . Mini Case Study: Walmart.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 26, 2018

For most of human history, the success of that exercise has rested on the appointed seer’s years of experience, coupled with some indefinable grasp of probability. So a workable automated system will have the capability to weed out those parameters that don’t make sense — for example, a material that is prohibited in key markets.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Selecting the right 3PL is no simple exercise, yet it’s one that’s all too often subject to shortcuts, a dearth of detail, and overly compressed timelines. Let’s take inventory management as an example. This is simply not enough time for a solution designer to come up with an optimal and accurately priced proposal.

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UL EHS- Sustainability

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Traditional training models address performance issues only when there is a lack of knowledge and skills. It is essential to determine reasons for the poor performance; this valuable exercise is a systematic, methodical evaluation that leads to an actionable strategy to yield improved employee performance outcomes.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2017

Supply chain mistakes like the five common examples I’m about to reveal , all have the potential to handicap business performance—which is why your company should avoid them (or address them if it’s too late for avoidance). For example: Customers don’t know what to expect. Can you see the dilemma here?

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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.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 24, 2019

Sherman was the first supply chain research director at AMR Research (now part of Gartner ), and helped develop the SCOR model and the Supply Chain Council. You have operations here and procurement over there and sales right here, for example. Each has its own mission and is focused on optimizing results in its silo only.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Performance is Sub Optimal Related to the core skill issue, often organizations which have a strategic focus, other than in transport or warehousing, cannot attain the desired performance levels and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) required by their customers. To assist your analysis, examples of industries are plotted on the matrix.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 20, 2025

For example, you dont want to assume that a single logistics strategy and service approach will meet all your customers needs. Ideally, though, evaluating your position against competitors should not solely be a KPI benchmarking exercise. For example: How much automation will you need in your warehouse(s)?

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The deeper the common understanding of the factors and mechanisms involved, the more effective the efforts at optimization. Managers need to become role models through their personal conduct. Bohlmann: By eliminating ineffective communication loops, for example. I found your real-world exercises in past years very enlightening.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

It’s not unusual for example, for companies to measure their supply chain performance only on the basis of financial metrics like supply chain cost per order. Maintaining an optimal network design is a supply chain basic—ignoring its importance could cost your company millions of dollars a year—seriously!

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 31, 2016

It’s not unusual for example, for companies to measure their supply chain performance only on the basis of financial metrics like supply chain cost per order. Maintaining an optimal network design is a supply chain basic—ignoring its importance could cost your company millions of dollars a year—seriously!

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Is it about optimization? Example A: Fashion Retailer – Business Strategy is short life cycle products. Example B: Supermarket Retailer – Business strategy is to have low cost to compete effectively. Example C: Oil & Gas – Products and services are diverse. What is Inventory Management? Or is it about having no stock?

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

To optimize their delivery operations, these companies engage in strategic route design on an infrequent basis or when some big event occurs in the company. New business models and delivery services. For most, re-routes are a painful and time-consuming exercise. Single pass optimization. New delivery asset options.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JULY 3, 2012

In this blog, with the example of Asset Management for personal health, they emphasize on identifying avenues for adding more Asset definitions to the EAM purview. You do regular exercise to ensure frequency of your breakdown can be reduced or you take your kid for scheduled vaccinations - Preventive Maintenance. Rohit Choubey.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Mini Case Study: Walmart Walmart may be the most famous example of a company that has succeeded primarily because of a well-developed and aligned supply chain strategy. For example, supplier performance issues can cause problems with inventory, order fill; on-time delivery performance and customer-order lead times.

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