Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

How to Get the Most Out of Your Labor Management System Using Engineered Labor Standards to Impact Warehouse Output. Ask yourself, are you able to gauge fluctuating factors in your warehouse, such as pick density, case sizes, slotting arrangements and other variables? Every change in the routine requires another change in your SVS.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

Third-party logistics companies ( 3PLs ) specialize in distribution, warehousing and fulfillment services. Today, there are many top 3PL warehousing companies that handle warehousing, fulfillment, logistics and distribution services for companies of all sizes. Revenue: €63.3 billion/$72.43 Smith 4.

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Logility

MAY 22, 2020

The obvious danger of this is that business rules and data governance often don’t exist from department to department or user to user, leaving an overall picture into the health of the business that is foggy because KPIs and metrics do not correlate across the organization. A great example of this comes from a Logility customer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 30, 2024

Retailers and CPG companies are adjusting their supply chain strategies to delay the final positioning of inventory, allowing them to better meet regional demand without over-investing in warehousing. Companies are also making upstream decisions about which inventory to place on transport and opportunities to pivot to higher-priority items.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2025

An efficient supply chain strategy is one that takes every aspect of your supply chain into account, from inventory management and warehouse design to freight tendering and transport optimisation. It’s not enough to just categorise by product groups; you’ve got to dig deeper into line item analysis.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team. Lack of aligned metrics. The concept was a factory with many factories in a common facility.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

When compared to the peer group performance, smaller and regional players outperform larger companies. Intuitive Surgical, L’Oreal, and Sleep Number drove excellence through product and service innovation to outperform their peer groups. The gaps widened in the past five years. This happened pre-pandemic. Performance Declines.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

Tom, the colorful warehouse manager, constantly heckled Frank for the increasing inventory levels while Ed, the quiet material/logistics manager, constantly questioned if there was a better way. Despite goals to improve agility and resiliency, functional metrics for manufacturing efficiency continually throw the supply chain out of balance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

How 3PLs Can Gain Visibility and a Competitive Advantage Offering Automated Billing and a Self-Service Interactive Customer Portal It’s hard to imagine a third-party logistics (3PL) business today operating without some form of a warehouse management system ( WMS ) connecting the digital dots. To learn more, visit Open Sky Group today.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 5, 2019

Groups throw-out concepts. When they built the project, they did not realize that they did not have access to daily data daily for their third-party warehouses and contract manufacturing locations. The focus is on functional metrics, but are unable to get to overall supply chain metrics. It looks like this. Master data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Workforce shortages and other challenges abound throughout all transportation sectors, and while this may revitalize investments in localized manufacturing, expanded warehousing to hold more inventory, and other efforts, these changes do not solve today’s issues. Based on this context, a shipper will send a parcel to Group A, Group B, etc.,

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Precoro

MAY 19, 2023

To monitor supply chain performance, stakeholders of successful companies typically define supply chain metrics that are relevant to the given business and track these KPIs regularly. By setting benchmarks for metrics, analysts can recognize unsettling trends and take preventive measures on time.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

It was my first time working with this group. The group laughed. ” The group was quiet as we discussed the fact in the traditional organization that functional silos are not designed to work together. When all functions are jointly focused on improving these metrics, then we can have one team. It was not measured.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2024

ARC Advisory Group has been covering the Supply Chain Planning ( SCP ) market for 17 years. Fulfillment constraints can include how long it will take to deliver goods to a destination, warehouse capacity, and warehouse labor requirements. The pandemic brought home the need for companies to run agile and resilient supply chains.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As part of the CMA CGM Group, CEVA Logistics has a global reach, which means that we can make a global difference. In Malaysia, CEVA Logistics worked closely with L’Oréal , a major producer of luxury and consumer products, to develop a social initiative of providing jobs for the hearing impaired at our warehouse since June 2020.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Over the period of 2009-2015 only 88% of companies made improvement on the “Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.” (The The Supply Chain Metrics That Matter are a portfolio of metrics which correlate to higher market capitalization. A ranking in the top 2/3 of the peer group qualifies a company for further analysis.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

Ferguson provides plumbing and heating products to 9 specialist customer groups – over a million customers – in the US and Canada. In the annual report where they report on their key performance indicators (KPIs), they don’t just report on core financial metrics and the NPS, they also have people metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. Paid only when the wheels are turning, the asset-intensive carrier base struggled with wait times and warehouse inefficiences. Ask the group to consider: Invest in Market Sensing. Retail shelves are increasingly empty.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Warehouse automation stats show that automation is making a big impact on warehouses and distribution centers. As technology awareness grows, more warehouses and DCs turn to automation to adapt to the changing landscape. The number of private warehouses is growing. Warehouses are increasing in size, as well.

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Picture this: You’re a warehouse manager, and with a few taps on your smartphone, you instantly know the exact location and quantity of every item in your inventory. Collaboration: Facilitates real-time data sharing among warehouse personnel, field technicians, managers, and office employees.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 27, 2021

Currently, most driverless opportunities are limited to secure private zones or closed environments, such as warehouses, campus environments or last mile runs from depot to front door. Byron Davis, Senior Director, Client Services, Open Sky Group. Make no mistake, driverless vehicles are here to stay, driver shortage or not.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

So why are so many still falling short of OTIF targets (and other key metrics)? But to verify the “in full” part, your real-time transportation solution needs to be connected to warehousing, inventory, fulfillment and order management. That covers “on-time.”

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2017

If you’ve heard about the opportunities and benefits that warehouse performance benchmarking can put within reach of your supply chain organisation, you might understandably be keen to get a benchmarking project under way. Some Common-sense Warehouse Benchmarking Metrics. Perfect Order Warehouse Performance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Mr. Welty founded a company that sold warehouse management systems (WMS) called AllPoints Systems in 1987. If the private equity group feels the existing CEO is not working out, an executive in residence can be inserted into the company as the new CEO. Locus Robots in the Warehouse. Bruce Welty was one of the founders.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The larger the organization, the more tension with conflicting functional metrics making decisions more difficult. A stuffed warehouse is inefficient, and most companies have the wrong inventories.). Functional metrics need to be abandoned to focus on balanced scorecard outputs. Closed Loop. Digital Transformation.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 14, 2025

percentage points in inventory levels which were the fastest rate of expansion for this metric since June 2022. Once more, the spike in inventory levels reportedly led to increased inventory costs, along with warehousing prices. We saw the opposite in late February, as growth in Inventory Costs and Warehousing Prices exploded to 82.7

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As it turns out, there are a certain number of “scheduling use cases” that require a warehouse manager to leave our system and work within another vendor’s app. Metrics are critical as well. That’s a drag on time and resources. But be wary of setting “moonshot goals” that may take years to achieve.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

To accomplish this goal, I ask a cross-functional group to audit the past year. As a group, we drill into root issues. Many times useful data exists in marketing or sales groups, but is not shared with the supply chain team. Build an industry peer group and gain insights on major trends. Ask the group what is possible?

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Logility

AUGUST 25, 2020

Every company today runs on data – the key to using your data is choosing the right metrics for visibility into your supply chain. While Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) may be reviewed quarterly or monthly, the speed with which supply chain operations occur makes a daily view of more tactical and operational metrics a growing necessity.

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

MTSS platforms enhance collaboration capabilities by offering features such as group project modules, discussion forums, and peer review systems. Courses and modules focused on data analytics, forecasting, and performance metrics equip students with the skills needed to leverage data in optimizing supply chain operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The need to know where products are, whether they are on the way to the warehouse, store, or customer, when there are delays, and alerts for these delays, is critical to ensure a positive experience. But, if a company wants to work with a new supplier, and that supplier is in the network, metrics on that carrier also exist.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

I did not understand warehousing and transportation until reassignment to a logistics role in 1985. The metrics reward functional thinking. For reference, 52% of companies have a network design group, and 40% of these companies think that they do it well. I am a product of traditional, silo-based thinking.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The digital twin allows for internal operations as well as customers to view the various processes, along with detailed metrices throughout the facility. DB Group has set ambitious targets to reduce specific CO2 emission by 50% by 2030 compared to 2006. Another notable project launch is the DB Schenker’s digital twin.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 10, 2024

You can achieve the benefits by simply rearranging products – within existing storage media – to reduce travel distance for pickers in your warehouse. Product slotting is a warehouse term that involves placing products in optimal locations within a warehouse to enhance operational efficiency. What is slotting?

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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). Warehousing KPIs. They are used to measure how effectively the warehouse processes of receiving, replenishment, fulfilment and shipping perform.

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6 River Systems

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Optimizing your warehouse means examining every corner of your infrastructure and every facet of your workflows and processes to identify and correct inefficiencies. Not only does warehouse optimization result in a healthier bottom line, but it also improves key warehouse metrics like accurate orders and on-time delivery.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. The discussions are with groups of executives—often ex-management consultants. No metric should be measured in isolation, and functional metrics should be replaced with the balanced scorecard metrics shown in Figure 2.

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