Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Reduction in asset capital.Warehouses and vehicles are expensive to purchase or lease and can tieupmillions of dollars that could otherwise be invested in the core business of the firm. It must be a joint exercise. When these signs are evident, firms often choose to outsource rather than waste time developing their own remedies.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Let me share with you some very simple tips this week on how to fit more into your warehouse so that you can either avoid or delay having to move to a larger facility. I was going to say poor but inappropriate purchasing policies. They’re trying to sort of retrofit or redesign existing warehouses to fit more in.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 18, 2022

Today’s article comes from Emerge, and looks at how to create full truckload budgets in a volatile market. From this point forward, we’ll highlight what those factors are and then offer remedies for how to mitigate them. The Underlying Reasons Behind FTL Budget Inaccuracies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Within this discipline, one of the toughest challenges is how to get visibility to problems arising across the extended supply network. But the further up the supply chain BD went, the less incentive suppliers had to participate in these exercises. Supply Chain Chaos is the New Norm.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Potential Factors in Declining Margins To get to the root of the problem, understanding the costs of production or purchasing will be a necessary starting point, but typically, more information will be needed. Some customers are very good at finding loopholes to reduce their purchasing costs.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

How to Improve Lighting Control It’s common for warehouse spaces to sit under artificial lighting even when or where it’s not strictly necessary. A warehouse benchmarking exercise is an excellent way to start the quest for improvement opportunities. There are several possible ways to eliminate this form of energy wastage.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

We’re going to look at reasons why companies outsource, how to choose a third party logistics organization (3PLO), who the main players are, and how to be successful in working with a 3PLO. How to Select a 3PLO for Business Process Outsourcing? It must be a joint exercise. This is a mistake.

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