Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 1, 2017

This past month I attended our Supply Chain Insights Bootcamp training led by Lora Cecere in Philadelphia and facilitated the first course of a Cross-Company Academy training, End-to-End Supply Chain Orchestration. Cross-Company Academy is a 7 month online training course, Bootcamp is a 2 day in-person training course.)

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The manufacturing firm would then have to organize shipping of the defective product, testing the product, dismantling, repairing, recycling or disposing the product. When a customer returns an item, the costs of shipping, storage, diagnosis, repair, and replacement will fall to the retailer. Again, it keeps costs under control.

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Demand Solutions

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Of course, if your supply chain is already humming, then these tips can help you achieve even greater levels of performance. And let’s say that we have seven line items in stock and can ship them complete. To fill the 8th line item complete we had to ship the product from a DC across the country. I say we all need to dig deeper.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Amazon achieved its fastest-ever global shipping times last year but isn’t resting on its laurels. cities over the course of the year, bringing the total number to 110. percent year-on-year decline in cargo ton miles to 1.8bn, although this metric increased by 9.5 While I like his optimism, I’ll believe it when I see it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 8, 2013

Over the course of the last six years, I have helped many companies with their demand-driven initiatives. They set a target to improve top line revenue over the course of five years. Each faces four years of deterioration on this important supply chain metric. We want to tie VMI and collaborative shipping together.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Just in time for the holidays, the Ship It Zero campaign is bringing visibility to the impacts of dirty ocean shipping caused by mega retailers all year round but especially as they ship their goods during the holiday season. I KEA earned a B+ in our 2023 Decarbonization Report Card and was the highest scoring company overall.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Of course, AI is already in use in the supply chain, adding its capabilities to myriad other efforts to optimize operational efficiency. He sees a near future in which there are multiple agents, each with their own realm of responsibility, such as shipping, pricing and forecasting. trillion to U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2022

He had a load full of cotton bales, and while idling away hours at a shipyard watching stevedores load other cargo onto ships he dreamed up containers that transformed global supply chains. Containerization eventually reduced shipping and loading costs by at least 75%. Why supply chain optimization matters.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2025

Running procurement and supply chain without metrics is like driving blindfolded. Our course breaks down TCO/TCS. Decoding the Metrics: What Are They Telling You? This metric is used to measure the efficiency and reliability of carriers in meeting their pickup commitments. Ready to gain clarity?

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 26, 2021

The planning stage means that users can plot routes using variable lead times, cost implications and intelligent historical data, monitoring changes as the scheduled ship date approaches. Visibility and execution working in tandem gives supply chains agility; efficiency is no longer enough.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 16, 2018

Whether you are a retailer, carrier, cloud services provider, or eCommerce merchant, Amazon not only effected the landscape of e-tail but the landscape of shipping and logistics as a whole. But at its heart continues to be fast and often free shipping, which has become expected by shoppers of not only Amazon but anywhere on or offline.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 30, 2017

In addition, customers are continuing to demand lower prices and free shipping. In other words, manufacturers need analytics from point-of-sale systems, transportation metrics and more. Of course, the same concept of using digital technology to engage customers can be applied to B2C sales channels as well.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 22, 2020

Of course, you’ll never want to deal with that company again. These are great metrics to hold a vendor accountable and ask for some compensation, but they require that something happens and that humans must track down and enact some remedy. Too often, inventory levels are a result of human emotion.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2025

You know where an order originated, its order status of fill, ship dates, and customers’ comments, all from a single dashboard. Check out this course by Vera Rozanova! For instance, repeat customers can receive preferential shipping or tailored promotions.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 29, 2016

According to Supply Chain Digest , a TMS can be leveraged to improve freight consolidation efforts, enable intermodal shipping, improve reverse logistics processes or work to reduce delays and inefficiencies in less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments. Improved centralization of all shipping processes. You might be inclined to say, “Yes.”

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

by Dr. Madhav Durbha Supply chain risks in the spotlight: Effects of Hanjin Shipping filing bankruptcy protection. A few days ago, the world’s seventh largest container shipping company by volume, Hanjin Shipping, filed for bankruptcy protection. Of course, this will be no guarantee that you will eliminate risk.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 14, 2017

Transportation management systems ( TMSs ) are not a new concept, but where they are hosted now, in the cloud, is still new to the shipping industry. Of course, the reasons for keeping the TMS in the cloud go beyond being easier for their providers. You simply log in and go. In a Nutshell. Your competitors are using it!

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

From a shipping standpoint, reverse logistics works well when the product being returned is routed directly to the correct location. Hidden Opportunities for Supply Chain Cost Reductions Of course hidden costs, if you can find them, mean hidden opportunities. Much depends upon the nature of your supply chain operation of course.

Reverse Logistics 74

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Over the course of the last two weeks, I find myself sitting in CFO offices attempting to explain how financial leadership can drive supply chain improvement. No metric should be measured in isolation, and functional metrics should be replaced with the balanced scorecard metrics shown in Figure 2. The Preamble.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 10, 2025

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Over the course of the last two years, we at Supply Chain Insight s have worked on a methodology to gauge supply chain improvement. We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During In our program, cost avoidance, while desirable, does not count towards the metric. We named it the Supply Chain Index.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 31, 2018

Best Practices Are for Maximizing Warehouse Space Embracing Big Data analytics and supporting omnichannel fulfillment options—including ship-to-store and storefront-as-a-distribution-center—can help warehouse managers fully utilize available space. Since customers’ needs evolve on a continuing basis, warehouses must evolve in tandem.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 23, 2025

Leaders must ensure the right questions are asked, the right metrics are tracked, and the right teams are aligned around decisions. They must translate models into action, balance efficiency with resilience, and rally teams around long-term supply chain goals that go beyond quarterly metrics.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Such brands may ship small runs of five bags, gowns, or shoes that cost thousands of dollars, whereas typical apparel products are produced in volumes of hundreds of thousands going to low cost retailers. There has been a strong push for more US manufacturing in recent years.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

Whether your company is a big or small player in terms of shipping volumes, and regardless of your chosen transportation modes (road, rail, ocean, air), the health of your bottom line depends in no small part on the competitiveness of your freight prices. The answer is to benchmark your freight, of course.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

can be measured to define this metric. Manufacturing Cycle Time : This metric is most accurately obtained using real-time monitoring with a Manufacturing Execution System (MES). They are used to measure how effectively the warehouse processes of receiving, replenishment, fulfilment and shipping perform. Outbound KPIs.

Manufacturing Procurement 105

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 12, 2017

Unlike the heart, however, your routing guide needs to be continually updated to reflect the most relevant changes in carrier preferences, stipulations for compliance violations and detailed instructions on how to handle different shipping circumstances. Make It Verifiable, and Use Cross-Checking Matrices.

Vendor Strategies 149

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Talking Logistics

JULY 6, 2017

A reporter recently asked me how, in my view, the shipping industry would make money in the coming years. In the past, growth came from scale: mega-ships, port infrastructure, and buffer. The shipping industry is highly complex and nuanced; improving predictions requires a platform custom built for the logistics industry. .

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 9, 2025

Automated Document Generation Most modern logistics platforms now generate key documents like bills of lading, shipping labels, and invoices from order data or transportation management systems (TMS). After scheduling a shipment or updating inventory, the system pulls pre-set information and populates forms based on rules or templates.

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

And of course, there’s WFP’s supply chain puzzle, which speaks directly to Quintiq’s passion for solving puzzles. million metric tons of WFP food assistance every year. million metric tons of WFP food assistance every year. On any given day, WFP operates an average of 70 aircraft, 20 ships and 5,000 trucks.

Food 120

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 23, 2020

To create flexible and balanced supply chain organisation, it is necessary to integrate strategy, processes, metrics, and technology enterprise wide and across customers, suppliers, and service providers. He has completed formal Executive Leadership management courses at INSEAD, Singapore. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 16, 2019

He therefore begins what he calls the six “rights” of supply chain execution by focusing on the right product at the right price, which of course, retailers and CGM companies have always focused on. There is much more involved now than the perfect order metric.”. Supply Chain “Mores”.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

Most companies cannot get to data by customer on orders shipped incomplete to understand root cause analysis. In Figure 1, we show the aggregate trend of the chemical industry in an orbit chart format showing year-over-year results at the intersection of two metrics operating margin and inventory turns. Let’s take an example.

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Freightos

JANUARY 4, 2018

With 22,000 TEU mega ships exacerbating surplus capacity, the situation is unlikely to improve any time soon. With companies like Amazon betting big on B2B e-commerce sales ( and backing it up with Prime shipping for businesses ), this trend will only strengthen. But as of late, two changes have been upsetting the status quo.

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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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Unleashed

MAY 2, 2022

These are the 10 most crucial metrics for SMEs – so you can get started on reducing inefficiencies and cutting costs. Using inventory performance metrics can lead to: Happier customers – who get what they want, when they want it, at the price they’re willing to pay. There are a lot of inventory performance measures you could track.

Inventory Reduction 98

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 1, 2015

“5S” programs are taught in some business college courses, and the SCOR model is also utilized. Inventory records, product specs, shipping documents contain errors. Shipping containers permit excessive empty space or product damage. There are multiple good models for lean manufacturing operations.

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