Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 31, 2024

A 3PL (Third-Party Logistics provider) is a company that takes care of your logistics operations – everything from warehousing your products to getting them where they need to go. Think of a 3PL as your logistics department without actually having to build one from scratch. That’s exactly where 3PLs shine.

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Material Handling and Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Forward-thinking supply chain professionals are looking to advanced technologies to streamline processes, improve accuracy, accelerate delivery and reduce costs. Today’s supply chains are increasingly complex, driving logistics operations to invest billions in systems to manage all the moving parts.

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Locus

APRIL 26, 2024

More and more companies are looking to digitalization of their end-to-end logistics operations for high efficiencies at optimal costs. However, with a wide variety of dispatch management, transportation management (TMS), or logistics software providers, this makes the selection process quite challenging.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

At Logistics Bureau, we want to help you with that, so we’re publishing this brief guide to help you if you haven’t already included freight benchmarking in your management strategies or want to benchmark more effectively than you are now. For that reason, freight benchmarking services are seeing increased uptake by shippers.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 20, 2023

“Such actions could range from changing the locations of fulfilment centres, to varying the customer offer, to in some cases limiting service offerings or even withdrawing from some lines of business.” The post Cost-To-Serve Analysis Should be Core Planning Tool appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Most people in my division work in capability development or centers of excellence designed to help operations centers improve their performance in logistics, customer service or production. It was taxing to report above the country level with this tool. This drove us to adopt a better strategic decision-support tool.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

There are different tools, goals, and market dynamics. Transportation procurement needs to support both customer service and a company’s internal supply chain goals. Depending on the product, their customers are consumer goods companies, retailers, food service distributors and restaurant chains. The freight market is mercurial.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Any warehouse design exercise that doesn’t include a rigorous approach to designing the processes and equipment layout for Order Picking, is suspect. Split Case Order Picking is a complex process and the level of customer service a company delivers is dependant on it being error free and timely.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2024

Situation Companies are increasingly confronted with complex planning scenarios due to predictable events such as mergers and acquisitions, category expansions, supplier changes, and distribution evolution, as well as disruptive events including demand volatility, material shortages, capacity constraints, and logistical surprises.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 1, 2021

Watchdog platforms, 3PL companies, and technology can be important allies in the war against rising cargo crime numbers. Specialized data analysis firms such as Cargonet have found that cargo theft is peaking and the losses being suffered by manufacturers, shippers, and logistics service providers have reached historic highs.

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Kane is Able

JUNE 27, 2019

Warehouse optimization modeling exercises examine the upside of being closer to customers versus the downside of carrying more inventory in more locations. Distribution network optimization has become a white-hot topic these days as “the Amazon effect” leads businesses to evaluate how quickly they can get products to customers.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

The first one arrived a few years ago when a growing number of companies started treating supply chain design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise. It was a strategic/tactical analysis, disconnected from day-to-day operations, and the software tools were difficult to learn and use.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Fleet operators who want to switch to electric vehicles can use a new web-based automated AI tool- the Teletrac EV Readiness tool. Teletrac’s EV Readiness Tool integrates with their fleet management and tracking platforms. The tool can analyse the feasibility of switching.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 29, 2015

We conclude our ongoing series in talking about effective KPI management by giving you a real live Logistics KPIs management case study from Whirlpool's engagement with a logistics service level provider. The Reiterated Importance of Understanding and Managing KPIs in Business and Logistics Management.

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Now, That's Logistics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

a question best answered using advanced technology platforms focused on providing high levels of supply chain visibility. Once you’ve come up with a few ideas, meet with internal departments, Tier I vendors, logistics providers, and other stakeholders to discuss these problem areas. Leverage the power of a logistics provider.

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20Cube Logistics

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The technology revolution in supply chain logistics is experiencing a transformational wave of new innovations and challenges. What is IoT in supply chain logistics? IoT enables supply chain logistics to connect vehicles, equipment and devices to obtain approximate real-time status updates of a shipment.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We often get asked what kind of return on investment you should expect to see when using our network design technology. While businesses differ in complexity and size, for this exercise we extrapolated based on these $7.5Bn baselines. Eventually, the business overheats its assets and can’t service all customers.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 22, 2022

The shift from oversupply to the current worldwide shortage has impacted raw materials, inbound logistics, the factory floor, and the outbound warehouse. Within your ERP system product configurator tools can be used to maximize customer service and operational efficiency. Solution: Custom capabilities.

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Locus

JANUARY 28, 2022

Compare this to 2022, when home services are no longer about just hiring domestic help and cooks. And so everything, from personal grooming to financial services to pet services, are made available to us at our doorstep. Owing to their sheer convenience, home services are nothing short of a necessity in the post-pandemic era.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

This situation is only likely to solidify as technology increasingly becomes the mainstay of supply chain management. However, running a supply chain still depends largely on manual skills, aided by mechanical handling equipment and business technology, particularly that of a mobile nature. Robert Jacobs et al. Monczka, Robert B.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 24, 2018

Few people realise how much software runs today’s cars, observes Les Hatton, emeritus professor of forensic software engineering at Kingston University, UK. “We We sit at home and can’t work out why the printer isn’t working, and then we’ll get in a car where there’s probably more software underneath,” he says.

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WorkWave

MAY 31, 2019

Here at WorkWave we’ve been creating pest control software for over 30 years, and in that time we’ve gained a deep understanding of how tough it is in pest control sales , especially when selling recurring service contracts and/or cross-sell services. Tap Into Your Software. Transportation & Logistics.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Whether that is the case or not, a brief study of the origins and progression of fleet route optimisation, covering the last three decades or so and looking forward to the near future, highlights in a spectacular way how technology, in particular, has revolutionised the business of logistics. “I would begin my shift at 2 p.m.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 25, 2023

But I’d like AI more to a magic trick, so allow me to direct your attention to the technology behind the curtain to highlight both its risks and its rewards and to share the essential leadership skills AI cannot provide. Second, generative AI can arm bad actors more easily with even more powerful tools for malfeasance.

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Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The rise in e-commerce has sparked new service solutions from LTL carriers particularly as “supply chains become shorter, turn times are quicker and there’s a drive for small, but more frequent shipments”, according to Mr. Ross. Technology. and just recently announced plans to expand their last-mile hubs to 85 within a few years.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

JUNE 29, 2020

With the right packaging, strategy, and tools, you can cut shipping costs by as much as 60%. But you can exercise more control over shipping and cargo damage than you might be aware as long as you have the right tools at your disposal. But if you can reduce cargo and shipping damage , you can cut shipping costs.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And when I’m done exercising, it automatically uploads the details to Strava. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (November 15, 2019). The post Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (November 15, 2019) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 31, 2021

If yours is one of those businesses shifting from traditional to online retail, you’ve probably faced some of the logistical challenges arising from the need to deliver your customers’ purchases to them. You may have added new products to your range, engaged new suppliers, or begun working with third-party logistics providers.

Cost Reduction 98

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 19, 2018

Unfortunately, this means small and mid-sized shippers, which are already struggling to maintain profitability in logistics and shipping , will face additional struggle in attempting to procure full truckload capacity. Conducting annual procurement exercises. Benchmarking progress and use of all transportation modes.

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Logistics in War

APRIL 9, 2020

If the operational commander endorses the requirement, the enabling organisations will make sure that the material/service (and some) is made available as a priority. The key is effective data analysis, trusted modelling tools and a systematic approach that provides total visibility across the entire supply network.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

To date, most of our content has covered topics related either to logistics or manufacturing outsourcing. Read on to learn how you can make your supply chain function with less cost, greater efficiency, and improved customer service —or perhaps all three—by handing off some relevant activities to an external contractor.

Outsourcing 98

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AIMMS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Most people in my division work in capability development or centers of excellence designed to help operations centers improve their performance in logistics, customer service or production. It was taxing to report above the country level with this tool. This drove us to adopt a better strategic decision-support tool.

Modeling Software 62

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 26, 2019

When the retail and consumer goods industries, who have the most complicated supply chains, are envisaging intelligent automation as the future of the supply chain, then can logistics – the core of supply chain be left behind? How Intelligent Automation Will Benefit Logistics. Definitely not.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 27, 2020

While there is still some question as to whether blockchain technology can live up to the hype it has generated, it is making inroads into the supply chain environment. The days of blockchain technology being considered exclusively synonymous with BitCoin and other cryptocurrencies have long been behind us. Berkshire Hathaway.

Supply Chain Planning Software 69

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Logistics in War

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Logistics In War has been exploring preparedness and logistics in a series of articles over the last three months. The role of logistics in preparedness is self-evident. However, while we know that this is the case, it has been difficult to rationally or accurately state why it is or ‘how much logistics is truly enough?’.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 30, 2018

Editor’s Note: Jon Slangerup is the CEO of American Global Logistics. Reaping the benefits of a technology-based supply chain used to be a luxury reserved only for the biggest enterprises. Spending on supply chain management software hit an estimated $13 billion in 2017, up 11 percent year-over-year, according to Gartner.

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20Cube Logistics

MARCH 6, 2022

Many times it has been seen that clothes become a tool through which a person expresses himself/herself. This agility of airfreight is also conducive to the fashion industry when it comes to catering to the e-commerce platforms. The post Walking Ramp in Air appeared first on 20Cube Logistics.

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