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What is Order Picking?

Logistics Bureau

Any warehouse design exercise that doesn’t include a rigorous approach to designing the processes and equipment layout for Order Picking, is suspect. Conveyor Belts and Sorting Systems: Moves and sorts items around the warehouse. Order Picking is the productive operation in a warehouse operation.

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What Is Your Target Story?

The Lean Thinker

Then develop training experiences and exercises that they believe will allow the learner to pass the test. By stating what we will observe or measure when the target condition is met, we are constructing a “unit test” of sorts. .” In other words, describe the skill as an ability that someone is able to demonstrate.

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The History of Fleet Route Optimisation in Logistics

Logistics Bureau

So thats the route were taking in this article (no pun intended), we’ll be exploring the evolution of fleet route optimisation from a time-consuming pen-and-paper exercise to a high-tech process that, in some cases, can be completed in minutes. But first, what is route optimisation?

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What are Reverse Logistics?

Logistics Bureau

Sort items early in the return journey, routing products directly to their correct destination, whether for resale, refurbishing, or other means of disposal. Note that this may require extra training for people who will do the sorting. Take the hurdles like who pays for the shipping out of the equation.

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Warehouse Capacity – How to Increase It and Avoid Moving

Logistics Bureau

They’re trying to sort of retrofit or redesign existing warehouses to fit more in. So 85 maybe 90% depends on the sort of storage media that you’re using. Businesses merging and sort of at the same time rationalizing their warehouse network, but also trying to fit more in. So it’s a very common challenge.

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Sustaining National Defence – logistics investment in the National Defence Strategy

Logistics in War

The media, think-tanks and all sorts of commentators have followed Ukraine’s experience of invasion to find another prompt that something should be done. To paraphrase a senior logistician of the late 1980’s defence infrastructure rationalisation, Defence had gone great lengths to ‘sell the farm’.

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Outsourcing transport and warehousing: How to be Successful

Logistics Bureau

On a number of occasions I have been asked to sort out problems with pricing mechanisms that are based on customers cost of goods sold, volume sold or per cent of revenue. It must be a joint exercise. There is rarely too much information that you can gather. This is a mistake.