Exercises Expense Reduction Study 
Logistics Bureau
JANUARY 16, 2025
Just as your body needs multiple defense mechanisms to fight off illness, your supply chain needs various strategies to handle disruptions, whether they’re local supplier issues or global crises. Let’s look at five proven strategies that can help you create a more resilient supply chain.
The Lean Thinker
JULY 2, 2024
With the justification aside, they next had us go through exercises calculating net present value and ROI for a hypothetical capital investment in tooling – as though a shop floor supervisor would do this at any point in the course of their job. These study missions were quite eye-opening for the participants. Customer-driven.
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Logistics Bureau
MAY 24, 2019
If you were to tell me that your company had never looked at its supply chain costs and sought to deliver reductions, I would be mightily surprised. On the other hand, if you told me your company hasn’t been able to sustain any progress in supply chain cost reduction, I wouldn’t be surprised at all.
Logistics Bureau
MAY 31, 2021
Let’s begin with a look at why, in general, retailers with multiple sales channels are more likely to experience difficulties in reducing cost-to-serve. Naturally, overall cost-to-serve will be higher for online than in-store sales due to the added expense involved in picking, packing, and delivering customers’ purchases.
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.
Logistics Bureau
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Recent studies have shown that among the challenges frustrating warehouse and distribution centre managers this year, rising energy and labour costs are two of the most often cited. We hope the tips and ideas in this article will help you make inroads into warehouse energy and labour cost reduction.
Logistics in War
AUGUST 18, 2019
In the meantime, we should study its strengths and weaknesses, and the how and why of its present design. The act of staying in a state of heightened readiness is not only expensive, but it can result in ‘evanescence and self-destruction.’ Time will tell how effective this organisation will be. Militaries ‘limp’ to war.
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