Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This involves a lot of long-haul transportation.” Those shipments can move directly to customers or move to several regional distribution centers (DCs) that serve as forward inventory locations and consolidation hubs servicing customers and channel partners. First and last mile shipments are usually by truck.

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Arkieva

APRIL 7, 2016

Ensure continued alignment by sharing inventory turns as a KPI. Figure 1 shows it for inventory and service. The idea is that more service, typically comes with a higher inventory (or lower turns). They increase the service but require a higher inventory. We will start by plotting that frontier per 2 dimensions.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

The company was replenishing dealers’ inventory weekly, using direct shipment and cross-docking operations from source warehouses located near Deere & Company’s manufacturing facilities. The only option was to try to reduce levels of inventory, which, up to that point, had been kept very high to support a nine-week order cycle.

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Cost Reduction Strategies Inventory Reduction Expense Reduction Price Reduction 54