Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Process Performance What if the problem isn’t connected to products, customers, or pricing but lies instead with process performance? Supply/Inventory Management Inventory management problems and supplier relationship issues , too, can creep in over time and eat away at your profit margins.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 1, 2021

Maybe that’s not exactly true – there are also issues related to the semiconductor shortage, such as record used vehicle prices, consumers buying early in order to get their desired vehicles, and vows to ditch just-in-time inventory management. Plus, it allows shippers to see how their rates compare to the market.

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3PL Links

MAY 11, 2023

Image source: Pixabay | Maximize Your Efficiency: Top 5 Supply Chain Trends to Adopt in 2023 We can all agree that the supply chain is critical to a business’s operational success, right? In a nutshell, the failures are caused by the fact that suppliers do not always have security management, allowing gaps in the system.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 25, 2022

Thirdly, suppliers and buyers are finding it increasingly difficult to do business due to the need for compliance with the continuing barrage of harsh sanctions. Many Western enterprises unknowingly depend on Russian and perhaps Ukrainian companies as t ier 2 suppliers. Firstly, the war is having a direct impact on ports and routes.

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Transporeon

MARCH 22, 2018

Depending on the mode of transport and the type of product being shipped, the offer matrix can contain individual price components and different quantity structures and units, along with additional information that can make comparisons difficult.

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Locus

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A prime example is how governments in the Middle East have begun to rethink food security targets after the disruptions to their food supply chains. Oil price fluctuations. Fluctuations in oil prices and oil supply disruptions are majorly caused by political events, supply pipeline issues or weather problems.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 9, 2016

Current liabilities are typically accounts payable, meaning money you are due to pay out, for example to suppliers. As a result, if you can get paid by your customers before you have to pay your suppliers and reduce inventory to boot , your current assets can be reduced to below your current liabilities.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 1, 2018

The following are examples. Supplier unreliability. A key example is the expert system. Image processing is an example. Price pressure and the need to make profits have left many supply chain organisations in a tight corner. One example is supplier performance evaluation. Hard to plan for demand.

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247 Customs Broker

JUNE 13, 2018

Titled, “Rough seas ahead for procurement,” the paper notes that traditional business models of many industries are being disrupted by technological innovation, putting a cap on the ability to pass price increases on to consumers. As with ‘frontier markets,’” we advise our clients to develop a measured approach to doing business there.

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The Logistics Academy

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Q: What are the latest trends in logistics education, and how does your program address them? Gerard Burke, Georgia Southern University: A continuing trend is the challenge to attract students to pursue a career often perceived as humdrum. Experiential learning is another trend seen as valuable to both hiring companies and students.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 30, 2018

Better communication is needed in the automotive supply chain, including between OEMs, suppliers, logistics providers and IT experts providing digital supply chain services. Rene Diest, global chief information officer (CIO) at interiors supplier Faurecia, agreed that in a data-driven economy it was all about “the fast beating the slow”.

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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Belarus and Kazakhstan, however, have no such obligations and have negotiated the right to continue supporting assembly plants in their countries with lower duties. Using localised engines or transmissions will score 40 points, for example, while electronic systems or aluminium of Russian origin will score 20 points. .

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Conger

JULY 28, 2022

Plenty of examples of warehousing. Lower freight costs since these warehouses often negotiate favorable rates with freight companies based on their volume of clients and order throughput. Perhaps the most prominent fulfillment center example is Amazon’s fulfillment centers. For example, take Co-op Partners Warehouse in St.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The collection provides analysis of the key trends affecting the overall industry, and is split into five surveys investigating the freight forwarding, motor carrier, express and warehousing sectors as well as the increasingly important topic of “environment and ethics” in global logistics. Technology key to logistics evolution.

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 17, 2018

The same goes for Nafta negotiations.”. The same goes for Nafta negotiations.” We’ve seen growth in auto exports to China and we hope that trend will continue.” Mexico remains confident in the face of uncertainty as negotiations with the US over Nafta continue. Finding room for manoeuvre in Mexico.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I was wrong, for example, about obstructive sleep apnea becoming the new debate in trucking; the debate ended before it really started after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and Federal Railroad Administration withdrew their proposed rule to have rail workers and commercial motor vehicle drivers tested for obstructive sleep apnea.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

NOTE: Ron Giuntini also participated in the roundtable, but his contribution on the servitization trend will appear in a separate article. . For example, the NIST demonstration shows an assembly operation. They also agreed that the currently hot economic growth trend will cool down but not reverse its advance next year.

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