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Key challenges and solutions for the fabricated metals industry

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The fabricated metals industry operates with a low margin in a highly competitive market and material availability, production schedules and workforce skills must align to meet customer expectations. Challenge: Meeting unique customer requirements.

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No Supply Chain Strategy? Here’s How to Develop One

Logistics Bureau

For example, you don’t want to assume that a single logistics strategy and service approach will meet all your customers’ needs. Now you know what your customers genuinely expect from your outbound and reverse supply chain, so it’s time to undertake a gap analysis. It may do, but how do you know?

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Key Factors to Consider When Planning and Designing Warehouses

Logistics Bureau

In this post, I’d like to talk about the key factors that will impact on the optimum facility network and design required to meet your warehousing or storage requirements. Outbound Logistics: Keeping Customers Satisfied. High availability of accurate throughput data will be of great aid to the outcome of the design or layout exercise.

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8 Reasons Why Your Business’ Success Depends Upon Your Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

Along with the design of supply chain strategy, the design of the supply chain itself, especially the part dealing with outbound distribution from plants or warehouses, is instrumental in the success or failure of businesses. . The cost of meeting demand is one of the most telling ways in which the supply chain matters to business success.

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Outsourcing transport and warehousing: How to be Successful

Logistics Bureau

Many enterprises have taken heed and determined that inbound and outbound transport and warehousing are consequential processes of their business rather than fundamental or core processes. It must be a joint exercise. This has fuelled growth of the third-party outsourcing industry and expansion of scores of logistics service providers.

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7 Reasons Why the Supply Chain Matters to Business Success

Logistics Bureau

Along with the design of supply chain strategy, the design of the supply chain itself, especially the part dealing with outbound distribution from plants or warehouses, is instrumental in the success or failure of businesses. The cost of meeting demand is one of the most telling ways in which the supply chain matters to business success.

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Leverage freight data for confident demand planning

FreightWaves SONAR

The Outbound Tender Reject Index, or the percentage of loads rejected by carriers. The chart above displays the Outbound Tender Reject Index, the average percentage of truckload shipments tendered by shippers which were then rejected by their contracted carriers. Chart: FreightWaves SONAR.