AIMMS

JULY 23, 2019

The company operates 7 sugar cane processing factories in Brazil, in a cluster located in the northwest region of Sao Paulo state. Decision-making goes from a highly tedious and error-prone exercise to a process that combines computational intelligence with the business knowledge needed to analyze the optimizer’s results.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

I could understand how trade data would allow the solution to detect potential suppliers in the extended supply chain, but not how the solution would know that it was the supplier’s factory in Xian China – as opposed to Tianjin – that was the source for a component that eventually ended up in a product.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 30, 2020

Once this exercise is completed, your company can then assess the risk from tier-two suppliers onwards. The companies most likely to emerge strongly from the Coronavirus crisis are those that had diversified their operations and implemented multi-sourcing strategies. 2) Diversify Your Operations.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2018

However, remember that products or subassemblies that never made it out of the factory may need to travel backwards one or more stages along the supply chain. A plan is necessary, possibly based on one of the following strategies. Reverse Logistics Strategy 1: Don’t do it! Reverse Logistics Strategy 2: Make it Painless.

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Blog on Log

AUGUST 19, 2006

However, in reality most strategic planning exercises neither embed foresight, nor create responsive networks. They will also help execute such best practices as cross—docking, in transit inventory merging, and delayed allocation strategies. Last month’s feature article talked about ‘Information Factory’.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Knowing your CTS per product and per customer also lets you better control different commercial strategies. For example, a CTS analysis may show you that customers ordering directly from you at your factory also generate lower costs in transport and inventory costs. They may confirm things you already suspected were true.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Examples include having your factory located in an area prone to flooding every few decades. Taken to extremes, reckless spending on business continuity might even make your business go bankrupt, which would defeat the point of the exercise. But now suppose a power line breakdown leaves your factory with no electricity.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

This covers security policies, threat awareness, security training, exercises. A popular strategy is a layered defence. Factories and warehouses can be built away from other buildings. Goods origination, third-party security, foreign customs are examples. Security awareness. They include governments and their agencies.

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Automotive Logistics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

A spokesperson for Audi said that every day, 27 of the electrically powered vehicles navigated routes through the factory halls delivering components, such as the front and rear axles, and the electric motor. The battery strategy is about teamwork: major parts of the battery housing come from Györ and Neckarsulm.

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Conger

MAY 6, 2019

When it comes down to applying lean strategies, it’s not so easy. It was difficult to stock and exercise first-in first-out rules. Implementing lean management principles is challenging. To eliminate waste without sacrificing productivity to improve customer value. The insights we received were nothing short of amazing.

Waste Reduction 59

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2022

A big part of what companies need to do when building a future strategy is to look out into the future and say, “These are the things that we think we want to do and be five years from now”. Historically, this product ‘footprinting’ exercise was both tedious and expensive. What does that look like? What criteria is key?

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 15, 2019

According to DB Schenker, the programme is based on a total of six exercises – each of which instructs learners about the various steps involved by encouraging ‘playful’ learning. In addition, we’ve also incorporated VR into our training strategy.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 31, 2018

“We have so many capabilities that many shippers here don’t know much about, although we’re a very dynamic company,” he said. “In Japan, Nippon Express is a household name and that carries with it a high expectation,” said George Hassapis, general counsel and vice president of the Corporate Strategy Division of the U.S. more national.

Material Savings 28

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Conger

MAY 6, 2019

When it comes down to applying lean strategies, it’s not so easy. It was difficult to stock and exercise first-in first-out rules. Implementing lean management principles is challenging. To eliminate waste without sacrificing productivity to improve customer value. The insights we received were nothing short of amazing.

Waste Reduction 40

Waste Reduction Inventory Reduction Material Savings Sourcing Strategies 40

Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Factory Gate Pricing (FGP) and Primary Freight (PF) strategies, as adopted by major grocery retailers, are causing a shudder up the spine of many retail suppliers. What are Factory Gate Pricing and Primary Freight strategies? Otherwise known in shipping terms as FIS (Free Into Store).

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 18, 2022

In 2018 it was reported , for example, than an iPhone is assembled by workers at Foxconn’s factory in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou; and made of raw materials and components sourced from 43 nations. But Maersk, as even Maersk admitted, did not have a robust cyber defense strategy in place.

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