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A Model for Employing Disabled Workers in Warehousing

Logistics Viewpoints

On Monday, March 8th, a vice president of supply chain for a large retail chain – a chain with over 5,000 stores – spoke at Körber’s supply chain conference Elevate. Two years ago, the company had 5 different warehouse management systems. There is high turnover in warehouses. Safety is a key metric at the company.

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No Time Like the Present

Supply Chain Shaman

I love the stories but question the fit of the metaphor(s) for a supply chain conference. While shipping craziness is abating, the issues and implications of the Russian-Ukrainian war, energy shortages in China and Europe, food instability in Africa, and the global water crisis reverberate as disruption after disruption in the supply chain.

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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. To maximize value—price to tangible book, functional metrics need to be reset to focus on reliability.

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Supply Chain Diagnostic: A Four-Step Process

Supply Chain Shaman

We draw a timeline on a conference room wall and using customer shipment and compliance data, we plot the issues with customer service and product outages. Most companies cannot get to data by customer on orders shipped incomplete to understand root cause analysis. Analyze Past Results in Customer Service. Let’s take an example.

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6 Manufacturing Trends You Need to Know

Arena Solutions

alone, colleges and universities awarded 83,263 bachelor’s degrees in engineering in 2012, a 37% increase over the 60,605 degrees conferred in 2002. They are lightweight, flexible, and simple to integrate, making them perfect for use in warehouses with limited room. Breaking it down In the U.S. 3 What’s the allure?

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Customer Experience Driving Innovation for High-Performing Companies

Talking Logistics

At the BluJay Soar 2018 conference this past May, I conducted several video interviews with BluJay customers on the growing importance of customer experience. Is customer experience a supply chain metric at your company? Perspectives from BluJay Solutions Customers. You can watch excerpts from the videos at the research website.

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Employing this S.M.A.R.T. Technique with a Logistics Company to Create Total Stakeholder Satisfaction

GlobalTranz

Let's talk about the outputs, or desired metrics worth measuring, in each category of what a logistics company might provide. Cerasis is squarely focused on transportation management through technology and managed services , however, there are logistics companies who offer fulfillment, warehousing, freight forwarding, and more.

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