Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

For senior leaders, understanding and integrating the three pillars of sustainability—environmental, social, and economic—into supply chain strategies is essential. Meanwhile, advances in AI-driven route optimization reduce unnecessary mileage, cutting emissions and costs. Reducing carbon emissions is a cornerstone of this effort.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2025

Therefore, it would be more prudent to explore how effectively (or not) a company is implementing recruitment strategies that encourage candidates with the right mix of ops and tech expertise. Since digital transformation is a principal feature in all business functions today, competition for hybrid talent is stiff.

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3PL Links

JANUARY 1, 2025

By maintaining specific temperature conditions, the cold chain ensures that everything from perishable foods to beverages remains in optimal condition until they reach the hands of consumers. To illustrate this better, imagine the following example: a perishable food supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 13, 2024

Through the story of a plant manager, it offers insights on how to improve efficiency, which also includes optimizing the production process as a whole, instead of focusing on individual parts. In our picking example, you would begin by analyzing the entire warehouse to identify where the bottleneck or constraint occurs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Optimization and simulation are the two main branches of SCND. Optimization accounts for over 90% of all work that is being done by SCND teams. This article describes how to incorporate simulation techniques into optimization, build a stochastic optimization model, and end up with a more resilient supply chain model.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 25, 2021

A TMS offers optimization capabilities across multiple modes to improve service levels and reduce freight spend. A TES is generally mode specific and lack optimization capabilities, but for shippers with simpler transportation requirements, that is often all they need. Look to the Cloud. Demonstrate a Higher Degree of Competence.

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Here are seven proven strategies every supply chain manager should explore to streamline operations, boost efficiency, and drive profitability. Optimize Inventory Management Inventory often represents one of the largest expenses in a supply chain. Cost Saving Tips for Every Supply Chain Manager 1.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Insights from Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020. Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020 offers some guidance. In the report, you will find capabilities across five categories: technologies, competencies, frameworks, operating model strategies, and organizational models.

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Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 31, 2024

This eBook provides customer examples, actionable strategies and highlights real-world benefits such as improved inventory turnover and reduced production costs. Explore this exclusive resource and gather ideas on transforming your supply chain into a model of sustainability and innovation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Companies including Amazon and Wing are developing drone delivery systems to optimize logistical processes within restricted urban spaces. Overcoming Challenges for Scalable Deployment Strategies are available to address these challenges and enable broader integration of autonomous technologies in logistics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

In this article, we will delve into strategic ways for warehouse managers to eliminate waste, with a focus on not only optimizing the use of cartons and packing, but labor resources and warehouse space as well. One effective method to optimize packing is the standardization of carton sizes. Product slotting is a complex problem.

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WorkWave

MARCH 4, 2025

By ranking prospects and customers into ten groups, from least likely to buy to most likely, green industry businesses can pinpoint high-value clients, optimize marketing campaigns and allocate resources more efficiently. For example , let’s consider a dataset of 100 lawn measurements in a given town. Heres another example.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

For stakeholders navigating this environment, understanding key industry drivers, challenges, and future trends is critical for crafting effective strategies. As supply chains transition to a more circular and sustainable model, M&A activity in this domain is expected to intensify.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The onus is on ecommerce retailers to control the controllables, and focusing on eliminating uncertainty from the consumer fulfillment process and optimizing the last mile is a smart approach. By mapping customer delivery personas to the delivery choices they offer, retailers can improve fulfillment certainty to protect margins.

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3PL Links

DECEMBER 24, 2024

For this reason, it is increasingly common to see companies investing in specific storage models, aligned with their product portfolio and the profile of their target audience. For example: we have the traditional warehouse and the cold storage warehouse. The traditional warehouse model is more conventional and widely used.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2025

In this post, we’re revisiting the topic with a more holistic approach, focusing on six factors that can make the difference between an optimal and suboptimal distribution network design. Indeed, careful attention to data in the preparation stage is indispensable for delivering a simple yet optimal design.

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EazyStock

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Inventory Control Techniques that use Stock Optimization Best Practices. So we thought we’d focus on the lesser known topic of ‘stock optimization’ – this is an inventory control technique that’s becoming more popular with inventory managers to improve the efficiency of their supply chain. What is stock optimization?

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Essential Steps to Using Warehouse Modeling Software for Design 1) Understand the Design Objectives and Constraints The first step in your review should be to determine and prioritise the objectives for your warehouse facility and operation. For example, is an SKU typically ordered by the pallet, carton, split carton, or individual unit?

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It is a model that is still very common in small companies, which only need support in the transactional phase. While in the previous strategy, the functions are focused on a more practical, day-to-day aspect, focused on the transaction, in a 4PL approach the partner already takes care of integration and optimization tasks.

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Log-hub

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By leveraging these technologies, businesses can optimize operations, reduce costs, and make smarter, data-driven decisions. The Future of Matrix-Based Optimization The Future of Matrix-Based Optimization AI and machine learning (ML) take matrix-based analysis to new heights.

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Log-hub

MARCH 7, 2025

From remanufactured electronics to reverse logistics strategies that give products a second life, leading companies are proving that sustainability isnt just good for the planet its also good for business. H&Ms Garment Collecting Program is a perfect example of reverse logistics in action. from 2023 to 2030.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Before we look at the barriers to optimal inventory and the possible ways to eliminate or overcome them, let’s be clear on what inventory optimisation means—because misconceptions do abound. For example, you can optimise for cost, profit, or service, but not for all of them. Service as a Barrier to Optimal Inventory.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 1, 2024

Top Challenges Faced by Companies: Customer Preferences: Example: An online fashion retailer faces the challenge of constantly changing customer preferences. They design their supply chain on a continuous basis and focus on ecommerce retailing strategies that segment their customer base according to buying behavior.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

It is also my go-to example when I try to explain supply chain and logistics to my kids. “Do Take one of the questions above, for example: Can a single truck deliver multiple types of food products together or do they get delivered via separate trucks? Do you ever wonder how all of these foods and products got here,” I ask them.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 20, 2025

The system can detect a deviation from a forecast, for example, and yet understand if the deviation is in an allowable range and that an alert does not have to be generated. For example, a large customer may place a large, unforeseen order that becomes visible at 9:00 a.m. However, unexpected events do happen.

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EazyStock

DECEMBER 13, 2020

In a perfect world, supply chain managers would be able to foresee every possible risk and threat to their supply chain and have a strategy prepared to successfully address any challenges when the moment came. Optimize Inventory. For example, did you take out a loan through the Paycheck Protection Program ?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2021

Many companies are achieving this transformation by adopting modular, elastic DC technologies – including AI and robotics – that provide continuous warehouse optimization without replacing their current monolithic and static warehouse systems. Those systems and processes were designed to serve the current business model for 10 years or more.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

As you’ll know, if you follow our blog regularly, Logistics Bureau does a great deal of work related to supply chain strategy development and alignment. As a result, and as we’ve mentioned in several previously published articles, we’ve discovered that many companies lack a defined and documented supply chain strategy.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 16, 2021

Therefore, it would be more prudent to explore how effectively (or not) a company is implementing recruitment strategies that encourage candidates with the right mix of ops and tech expertise. Since digital transformation is a principal feature in all business functions today, competition for hybrid talent is stiff.

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Log-hub

AUGUST 14, 2024

3 min read Supply chain optimization is crucial for businesses to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction. By leveraging technology, data analytics, and innovative strategies, companies can streamline their supply chains and achieve significant improvements.

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TransAudit

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Companies that rely on reactive strategies risk falling behind, while those that prioritize resilience are better equipped to thrive. Reactive strategies focus on addressing issues as they arise, but these approaches: Lack foresight to predict disruptions. Inventory Forecasting: Use predictive models to anticipate demand spikes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

If you have been through this process at least once, you already have a good idea of what supply chain design is about: optimization. When most people hear the word “optimization,” they immediately think about minimizing costs. But optimization is much more than that! Let’s continue with this analogy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2022

This practice is typically owned by the sales and/or marketing organization, which is why it is so important for transportation and logistics departments to have input into customer service strategies. For example, do all customers need to be serviced equally regardless of size? This is where finance can help.

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EazyStock

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Inventory Replenishment Strategies to Boost Profitability. To overcome all these inventory management risks, you need a toolbox of effective inventory replenishment strategies. 5 Inventory Replenishment Strategies to Increase Profits. Any business that carries inventory needs to avoid stockouts and back orders.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Alex Pradhan, Product Strategy Leader John Galt Solutions, told me that “all planning vendors have bold marketing around AI.” Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. In process industries the supply chain models used for optimization are much more complex than those used in other industries.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

In a VMI model, part of the equation is the inbound & outbound flow of the inventory. Distributors will inbound to a manufacturer the inventory needed and transportation management, especially inbound freight management, efficiency is paramount to an effective vendor managed inventory model. It was a “win-win” partnership.

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CLX Logistics

MAY 3, 2024

A resilient and agile supply chain strategy is not just a prudent choice—it’s a necessity, especially within the context of chemical supply chains. Challenges in Supply Chain Strategy Planning Designing a resilient and agile supply chain organization is not without its challenges.

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