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Automation To Help Smooth Singles’ Day Peak

Logistics Business Magazine

Originating at China’s Nanjing University in 1993 as a sort of anti-Valentine’s Day, Singles’ Day is celebrated by unmarried people in China on the 11th November. Also, at particularly busy times such as the period around Singles’ Day, additional sorting chutes can be added to cope with very high traffic sorting demands.

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Outsourcing transport and warehousing: How to be Successful

Logistics Bureau

This is a blessing for third-party logistics providers,who have won large amounts of new business for this reason alone Click here to download my free presentation 4. 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.

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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

Indeed, the transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. In reality, it would take several rounds of fine-tuning to get all the orders sorted into routes without leaving any vehicles underutilised.”

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How to be an Eco-Friendly Ecommerce Brand

Ship Monk

All sorts of organizations have run studies on eco-friendly attitudes in the ecommerce industry, and we have amazingly positive news to share about what buyers are thinking. If you present the facts in easily understandable terms, that can make a world of difference. We have proof. The problem?

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The Cancer of Fear

The Lean Thinker

The conversation among those managers for the rest of that day, and the next, was more around how to carefully phrase what they say in the meeting, and less about how do we surface and solve problems. All of this is a unconscious but focused effort to present the illusion that things are progressing according to plan.

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How to Make Reverse Packaging Logistics More Efficient?

3PL Links

Image source: Rawpixel.com | How to Make Reverse Packaging Logistics More Efficient? Each tactic—from active consumer involvement to sustainable design—is laid out clearly and demonstrates how we may improve the efficiency of packaging recycling.

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Mike Rother: The Toyota Kata Practice Guide

The Lean Thinker

Most of the presenters at Lean Frontier’s recent online Kata Practitioner Day were describing their experiences applying what was outlined in that book. Last year’s KataCon featured a number of presenters who have adapted the routines to their specific situations, and we have seen the Kata morph as they are used “in the wild.”