Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 16, 2025

Think of it as your supply chain’s immune system. The resilience of your supply chain is determined by its structure and operations, whether we’re dealing with major immediate events like a pandemic or gradual systemic changes to your business environment over time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

Technology will provide significant assistance in this arena by helping design sustainable networks and having risk indicators for ecological, financial, or judicial factors for the multi-tier supplier network. Following technologies will play a major role. Well designed supply chain finance programs can set companies apart.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2024

These challenges necessitate extensive configuration within Advanced Planning Systems (APS) test environments to assess their impacts. APS are complex, live production environments requiring extensive configuration to accurately model a business’s operational reality.

Scenario Planning 126

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The Lean Thinker

AUGUST 6, 2019

Starry-eyed executives often look only at the financial models, maybe equipment capacity, and skip over the operational aspects of their due diligence. Bottom line: If you are engaged in an ambitious growth plan, then list everything that has to be different for your model to work. Toyota Kata offers a good pattern for this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For the longest time modeling and designing such nodes, modes, and flows has been the realm of Supply Chain Design. Just a handful of optimization and operations research experts ran models of the network and made recommendations. The technology is reaching such an inflection point. This capability will be game changing.

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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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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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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2022

This is not a continuous improvement exercise, but a matter of survival as greater unpredictability prevails in our markets, continually taxing resources, and challenging forecast accuracy on both the demand and supply sides.

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Locus

APRIL 26, 2024

However, with a wide variety of dispatch management, transportation management (TMS), or logistics software providers, this makes the selection process quite challenging. Enter the Request for Proposal (RFP): a strategic tool that goes beyond mere vendor selection. How to resolve this conundrum?

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The Lean Thinker

MARCH 5, 2021

The people who have to manage the daily work, whether they were involved in this exercise or not, have no paradigm for dealing with the myriad of issues that are bound to be surfaced after we pulled all of the buffers out of the material and the time. That’s the whole point, actually, of a model line. They were good people.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2015

Below I will outline how a vendor managed inventory model, in conjunction with reverse marketing, value analysis, and collaboration will achieve supply chain cost reductions. Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions. The distributor is in total control of the timing and size of the order being placed.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Can you tell me about HEINEKEN’s AIMMS-based Brewing Capacity Model? I understand your team took ownership of this model. Yeah, so there was an existing Brewing Capacity Model which lived in a spreadsheet file. It was taxing to report above the country level with this tool. How did the model come together? .

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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. To do this, we built two representative models of a business. While businesses differ in complexity and size, for this exercise we extrapolated based on these $7.5Bn baselines. ” – Tweet this.

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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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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 24, 2022

While many of us are starting the new year resolving to transform ourselves by hitting the gym, eating better, and spending less money, the manufacturing and distribution industry like many others is faced with the challenge of adapting to technology to stay ahead. Solutions to equip you on the journey.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

’ Companies like Sears, Dell, and Zappos are often pointed to as models to follow for reverse logistics. A well-implemented reverse logistics system is essential for managing these backward movements efficiently. Sectors like publishing of software, books, music, and so on, also offer another way to reduce returns.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

More recently the technology has evolved to a point where such processes can be conducted at a faster cadence than a typical monthly cadence that was the norm. Optimization based technologies can maximize the leverage from existing assets before considering expansion. Does this mean at some point in time we move on from S&OP?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Using data has the potential to open up new business models, technologies, and an ecosystem where anything-as-a-service is possible. Exercise trackers like Fitbit or Garmin are part of an IoT network that collects and analyzes data from objects – people. While they are similar they are not the same. What is IoT and IIoT?

Manufacturing Procurement 111

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 19, 2022

The fundamental problem is that many organizations caught up in this situation are using business models which were already out of date before the pandemic. The supply chain of the future will not use the business models which are currently in place. Using technology to ease your way forward. Use data to improve operations.

Manufacturing Procurement 105

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Can you tell me about HEINEKEN’s AIMMS-based Brewing Capacity Model? I understand your team took ownership of this model. Yeah, so there was an existing Brewing Capacity Model which lived in an Excel file. It was taxing to report above the country level with this tool. This was not easy to do with an error-prone tool.

Modeling Software 48

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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. Models trained on human data reflect us, both our pride and our prejudice. The first is bias and misinformation.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

The added benefit of working with such a partner is that because they collect performance data from hundreds of companies, they can help you choose the most appropriate key performance indicators to use in your benchmarking exercise. Step 4: Identify Enabling Technology Needs. Start with the Software. Forecasting systems.

Inventory Reduction 98

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 1, 2024

They underwent a thorough Network Optimization exercise to identify the roadmap of transitioning to a hybrid offshore/nearshore model. Over the past 20 years, Nari has held VP and Director of Product Management, Research and Marketing roles at various companies such as E2open, i2 Technologies and Aberdeen Group.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 20, 2023

More than a one-off exercise The report finds that CTS needs continual revisiting in order to inform and respond to higher-level business decisions and is an essential tool for protecting margin and ensuring profitability. The post Cost-To-Serve Analysis Should be Core Planning Tool appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics in War

MAY 11, 2023

Logistics and force posture National Defence requires the ADF to develop a north-Australia network of bases ‘to provide a platform for logistics support, denial and deterrence’ (p19). This is, of course, a normal goal for logistics planners to have.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Mr. Beery was also visiting startups that had interesting technology for which the use case was not immediately apparent. At the same time Mr. Beery was visiting multinationals with advanced supply chain practices, he was also visiting startups that had interesting technologies. One of those companies was Aera Technology.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 31, 2021

Unless your company has already invested in the processes and technology to support the addition of online retail logistics to your channel strategy, attaining a single view of your inventory and customers could prove difficult. Why Modeling Makes Sense.

Cost Reduction 98

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AIMMS

JULY 23, 2019

In a recent article published in Mundo Logística , Tereos’ Logistics and S&OP Executive Manager, André Margoto , shares valuable insights on how agribusiness companies can use optimization models in (near) real-time to inform planning decisions and bolster their S&OP process. Advanced analytics as enabling technology.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2024

By modeling these potential disruptions, it becomes possible to understand the impact and develop the right alternative response plans to mitigate the impact. Throughout his career, Matt has successfully led software implementations utilizing best-in-class supply chain planning systems, execution systems, and merchandising planning systems.

Scenario Planning 124

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

Moving to a vendor-managed inventory model wherever it was possible to do so. It then began managing the remaining partners via a weekly scorecard system, aligned with renewed service level agreements. Introducing a formal S&OP planning process. plants to four. These issues existed against a backdrop of a volatile, seasonal market.

Cost Reduction 77

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Shipping and Freight Resource

MAY 24, 2020

BOLERO ( B ill O f L ading E lectronic R egistry O rganization) was launched in September 1999 as an electronic trade community to provide a common and open system for businesses to exchange trade data and documentation electronically without the involvement of paper. edoxOnline ; WAVE ; and.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Why do transportation management systems (TMS) implementations get off track? First, let’s define TMS – this is the software used to manage purchased transportation. All too often, companies conflate TMS with vehicle routing & scheduling (VRS) and fleet management systems (FMS) with TMS. Systems Selection & Budget.

Supply Chain Design Software 74

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It also stands to reason that when you undertake a slotting exercise, you should think about it from the perspective of these activities. Those calculations, of course, will necessitate using some digital software. But what if your business lacks the digital tools necessary to use the data? Product Slotting Data Requirements.

Production 98

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Logistics in War

APRIL 9, 2020

The key is effective data analysis, trusted modelling tools and a systematic approach that provides total visibility across the entire supply network. This will support an effective demonstration of probable outcomes during the planning phase based on selected COAs, supported by an ability to intervene where required.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

That said, CTS models that include end-to-end supply chain activities can use ABC data in order to calculate the overall profitability of serving a customer with a product. The tools for determining Cost To Serve include standard spreadsheet applications, such as MS Excel, and network design modeling software.

Purchasing Skills 93

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 29, 2015

KPIs or Key Performance Indicators are a core practice of measuring the effectiveness and for continuous improvement in any business outsourcing model. The 4PL built a new routing tool specifically for Whirlpool that offered overall cost optimization and mode selection.

Case Study 93

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 24, 2024

I believe that effecting change in the workplace is so challenging today because the whole world of industry and commerce is itself in transition: from a state where nothing changed for many years, to one where technology in particular, gives rise to better ways of doing things and therefore, engenders change on a frequent basis.

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