Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

For those unaware of the term, shrink is an accounting term used to describe when a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded book inventory. Small businesses getting squeezed out in push for warehouse space. Earlier this week, I read a sobering report from the national Retail Federation (NRF) regarding shrink.

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RFgen

JULY 11, 2017

A variety of trends are coming together to transform the modern warehouse. The warehouse management system market is experiencing a period of rapid growth as a variety of industry conditions come together to make the supply chain, distribution and fulfillment aspects of businesses extremely important. billion by 2023.

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RFgen

JULY 11, 2017

A variety of trends are coming together to transform the modern warehouse. The warehouse management system market is experiencing a period of rapid growth as a variety of industry conditions come together to make the supply chain, distribution and fulfillment aspects of businesses extremely important. billion by 2023.

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FLEXE

APRIL 17, 2017

We’re excited to announce our new Premier Partner program—highlighting our top-performing warehouse partners in the network. Here at FLEXE, we get the opportunity to work with a lot of great warehouse partners. Every warehouse provider in the FLEXE network undergoes a vetting process before it can be listed in our marketplace.

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DELMIA Quintiq

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The average delivery time of four to six days is now down to two to three days by moving inventory closer to the end consumer with multiple fulfillment locations. could place inventory and fulfill from Sydney for Australasian customers, ready to be delivered locally or to neighboring New Zealand. World Food Programme.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Click the links below to compare this year's innovations to those from previous years: Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2017 : exoskeletons, autonomous forklifts, flying warehouses, last-mile delivery, and more. Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2016 : robot pickers, bridge-inspecting drones, autonomous freight shuttles, and more.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Table 1: Contract of Growth, Operating Margin, Inventory Turns and Cash-To-Cash for Consumer-Facing Industries. In parallel, take a closer look at inventory turns where only pharmaceutical companies made slight progress. In parallel, take a closer look at inventory turns where only pharmaceutical companies made slight progress.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

So when the warehouse team threatened to unionize, I transferred into a distribution, warehouse environment. I knew nothing about the world of logistics, inventory management and order optimization. I knew nothing about the world of logistics, inventory management and order optimization. The year was 1985.

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Read more: Try the eCommerce inventory management software that unleashes your growth What is B2B eCommerce? One of the world’s most successful eCommerce businesses is Shopify, which provides its customers – across both B2B and B2C channels – with an eCommerce platform supporting trade, engagement, metrics, shipping and tracking services.

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Arkieva

JANUARY 20, 2017

The need to transport parts also drives inventory up, creates a need for space to store those parts, and uses energy for more forklift time and warehouse heating. Read Also: 10 Warehouse Productivity Tips for Reducing Downtime Today! Transportation strategy and tactics must support Lean inventory strategies.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 23, 2016

Industry Week, March, 2016). These metrics would, of course, be aligned and are updated every hour. The metrics are also manual as automatic metric systems cannot retrieve the information at an hourly frequency as these metrics are process inputs and not outputs. Flex is eight (8) years into its Lean journey.

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Key factors influencing inventory levels, supplier quality, demand forecasting, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, production planning, transportation management and more are becoming known for the first time. CB Insights, Stocked Up: 150+ Companies Attacking The Supply Chain & Logistics Space, November 30, 2016. References.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Amazon has dozens of warehouses all over the country, and more around the world, so your products may be in your customers’ hands quickly. Q4 of 2016, in particular, created less than ideal press for the company when a British jury found Amazon UK guilty of shipping hazardous materials by air without proper labeling or packaging.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2016

Included in this post is Cummins’ digital award for the 2016 Supply Chains to Admire. I want to understand why some companies outperform on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter while others do not. It is a condition of too little sleep due to fabulous late night coverage of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 27, 2018

Essentially, gamification is just an expansion of the use of metrics and KPIs to measure human performance. If you wish, you can implement gamification in inventory management and warehousing, transport management or even into the cabs of trucks if you run a commercial-vehicle fleet. Gamification in the Warehouse.

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IQMS

JULY 11, 2019

Asset Management, Supply Chain Management, and Inventory Management are the hottest areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning and IoT adoption in manufacturing today. Machine learning is predicted to reduce costs related to transport and warehousing and supply chain administration by 5 to 10% and 25 to 40%, respectively.

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Lucas

JULY 3, 2018

WERC’s Annual DC Measures Survey is a great tool for benchmarking your distribution center and warehouse operations, but it’s also a valuable resource for identifying trends across the industry. This year’s survey showed the growing importance of labor-related metrics in assessing DC performance. Annual workforce turnover.

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Requis

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

For example, RFID inventory tracking provides instant access to information about what you have, how much of it you have, and where it’s located. It’s easy to visualize how this information can save endless person-hours of running around warehouses. Allow complete record keeping of every asset in your inventory. References.

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Requis

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

For example, RFID inventory tracking provides instant access to information about what you have, how much of it you have, and where it’s located. It’s easy to visualize how this information can save endless person-hours of running around warehouses. Allow complete record keeping of every asset in your inventory. References.

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RFgen

MAY 5, 2016

When products spoil quickly or contaminants infect merchandise, it’s essential to implement a new inventory management and supply chain logistics solution. CNN reported that CRF Frozen Foods expanded their voluntary recall of products in May 2016. Salmonella and listeria are primary concerns for modern grocery shoppers.

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RFgen

MAY 5, 2016

When products spoil quickly or contaminants infect merchandise, it’s essential to implement a new inventory management and supply chain logistics solution. CNN reported that CRF Frozen Foods expanded their voluntary recall of products in May 2016. Salmonella and listeria are primary concerns for modern grocery shoppers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

It pains me to see nine out of ten companies are stuck at the critical intersection of cost and inventory turns. In a similar vein, their forecasts for the automotive market would have been on new automotive sales and dealer inventory. Include the supplier’s warehouse and manufacturing locations. I am not quite sure.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

If Gartner’s Top 25 Supply Chain rankings are anything to go by, Unilever is THE world leader in supply chain operations, at least in 2016. The measurements however, are just a means to an end , with the KPI-driven conversations being considered more important than the actual metrics. Boxes Within Boxes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Our goal in writing these case studies is to share insights from the Supply Chains to Admire winners from 2016. Over the period of 2009-2015 only 88% of companies made improvement on the “Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.” (The The composite of metrics includes growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital.)

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DELMIA Quintiq

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The average delivery time of four to six days is now down to two to three days by moving inventory closer to the end consumer with multiple fulfillment locations. could place inventory and fulfill from Sydney for Australasian customers, ready to be delivered locally or to neighboring New Zealand. World Food Programme.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Clorox was a Supply Chains to Admire Winner in 2016 and in the top-tier of performance within the peer group for 2017/2018.). In this period, Clorox was acquiring products with significantly higher margins and lower inventory turns. While retail companies improved inventory, they lost ground on growth and operating margin.

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ShipBob

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

To keep a business afloat, an online brand needs to track inventory , manage the fulfillment and shipping process, and oversee products getting to their end destination. Managing inventory. Warehousing. I used to have to pull inventory numbers from three places everyday and move all the disparate data into a spreadsheet.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. To meet the criteria for The Supply Chains to Admire for 2016, companies needed to score better than their peer group average for performance metrics, while driving a higher level of improvement than 2/3 of their industry peer group.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 29, 2020

2016, International Maritime Organization (IMO) took a landmark decision which will enforce a new regulation from 1st of Jan. m/m in 2020 was taken way back in 2008 and it got ratified in 2016 in the 17th session of MEPC meeting. million metric tons annually. The decision to make it 0.5% So, this is not sudden.

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ShipBob

AUGUST 3, 2020

From 2010-2016, venture capital funds invested in over 2000 early stage deals in the ‘internet’ sector. A thorough understanding of metrics that prove out business models. You must be able to manage inventory turnover seamlessly and prevent stockouts. VCs like to invest in internet companies.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Inventory requirements for all raw, WIP and finished goods. The number and locations of required warehouses, distributors, etc. This latest smart manufacturing wave sees an encompassing integration of GPS technology that allows for the fluid and accurate reportage (or tracking) of employees, assets, inventory and vehicles.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As we head into 2016, we are featuring our most read articles of 2015 in our five main categories: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. The Benefits of Evolved Vendor Managed Inventory Model Led by Web-Based VMI. There was a signed contract with agreed upon inventory levels.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Many just get into a routine of constantly increasing precision of what they can control and understand ( IFRS / GAAP accounting and ERP systems that enforce these rules) but in miss accurate measurement of flow of production / inventories. Disjoint plans and plans built on non synchronized data leads to more inventory and unhappy customers.

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Arena Solutions

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

And then we also, I’d say well, since about 2016, we’ve had a Razorleaf Government Solutions business. So for a long time, we’ve got a lot of Department of Defense, think of the Navy, Army, Air Force-type contracts, and right around 2016, we spun that company off to help us address those customer needs and contracts. Ann McGuire.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

He has threatened to unwind major trade agreements, penalize logistics companies that move operations overseas, including manufacturing and warehousing services, and stifle companies’ plans for growth in emerging markets. President Trump’s plans will likely stimulate short-term growth, reports Patrick Burnson of Supply Chain 24/7.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It echoed the title of my September 2016 post, “ The Day a Cyber Attack Brings the World’s Supply Chains to a Halt.”. If they actually follow through on their promise and oil prices continue to rise next year, how will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in response? Hospitals, Spanish Companies.”

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Like 2016, logistics providers will be tested for weaknesses in 2017. Last mile e-commerce, last mile technology, last mile metrics and white glove services make standard shipping conversations seem like child’s play, and the new focus on the last mile is anything but. Share This: Read More. Share This: Read More.

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