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This Week in Logistics News (April 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

These inventory limits determine how many units of various products sellers can send to a warehouse at any given time — thus, any changes made to inventory limits could impact whether or not a seller is able to keep enough product in stock. This funding is for the temporary staging of loaded export containers.

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What is Reverse Logistics and How Is It Different than Traditional Logistics?

GlobalTranz

For instance, goods move from the customer to the distributor or to the manufacturer. The manufacturing firm would then have to organize shipping of the defective product, testing the product, dismantling, repairing, recycling, or disposing of the product. If the product is defective, the customer would return the product.

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20 warehouse professionals and business leaders reveal the single most important first step when designing a warehouse layout

6 River Systems

There are many factors to consider when designing a warehouse layout, and every design decision can have a significant impact on operational efficiency. Curtis Barry & Company , labor comprises more than half of a warehouse’s total operations costs. According to F.

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New Year’s Resolution #1 for Supply Chain Planners: Improve Performance Measurement

Demand Solutions

But regardless of whether you plan to read a book every week, go running every day at 6 AM, or finally put some money in your IRA, I believe the New Year is a perfect time to make some resolutions about your supply chain. To fill the 8th line item complete we had to ship the product from a DC across the country.

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Bridging the Retailer-Manufacturer Divide: A Conversation with Flowcasting Founder André Martin – Part II

BlueYonder

Retailers and manufacturers: do the words mistrust, inaccuracies and frustration come to mind when you think of your trading partners? In Part I of this series , Martin explained why Flowcasting finally fulfills the promise of collaboration that retailers and manufacturers have been striving for. You aren’t alone.

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Supply Chain Case Study: the Executive's Guide

Supply Chain Opz

Manufacturing systems and regulatory compliance are considered to be very complex, coupled with the limited number suppliers due to the high barriers to entry. Moreover, the aircraft manufacturers have to do whatever it takes to win the order long before the commencement of production.

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Lessons Learned from the Beer Game

BlueYonder

Participants have included C-suite roles from some of the largest and well-known manufacturers and retailers across the globe. This could be a result of connecting the store to the retailer distribution center (DC), or the manufacturing DC to the retailer DC, or from connecting the manufacturing plant to the supplier.