Talking Logistics

MARCH 2, 2017

Rather, it’s about winning the ongoing competition between shippers and third party logistics (3PLs) providers to secure those assets in order to maintain supply chain velocity. Next, align your service level expectations by rewarding outstanding performance and standardizing metrics about on-time delivery, invoice accuracy and communication.

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Vanguard Software

JULY 20, 2021

And before that, in 2001, Nike also had a demand planning blunder that led to a $100 million loss in sales. Effective planning leads to efficient capacity utilization and smart resource allocation. Not too long ago, in 2014, Walgreens had a $1 billion forecasting error that led to the exit of two executives.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. For the purpose of this article, I will use Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) as the proxy metric to discuss asset utilization.) I never calculated and accounted for the inter-dependencies between metrics.

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Gravity Supply Chain

MAY 20, 2022

The quantity of goods carried by containers soared from 102 million metric tons in 1980 to about 1.83 billion metric tons as of 2017. Gravity regularly uses the data of third-party logistics (3PLs) providers. In 1956, manually loading a ship cost $5.86 ” An expected global surprise. .”

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