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Editor’s Choice: The Journal to Perfect Delivery

Logistics Viewpoints

Is it your current order management or warehousing processes that are standing in the way? This would include metrics like order-fill rates – that is, how many orders you’re able to fill in full and on time. Ensuring perfect delivery requires knowing the status of your inventory. Is it 92% of the time or 98% of the time?

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Embracing the Supply Chain as A Complex Non-linear System

Supply Chain Shaman

In the past five years, companies have 5-10X the number of AGVs in their warehouses, but 40-60% more planners in corporate. We have successfully reduced warehouse labor, but planning is more labor intensive today, and less effective. Planning Needs to Change. Performance Declines. The paradigm needs to change to buck the trend.

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Excess Inventory? No Problem. You Have Trailers In the Yard.­­

Talking Logistics

With the national warehouse vacancy rate hovering at record lows and warehouses bloated with inventory pulled in from China during 2018 to get ahead of impending tariffs, companies can combine flexible storage options with advanced technology to create an end-to-end supply chain solution that works. The Momentum Continues.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

Such measures include communicating with suppliers and customers , using demand shaping to overcome inventory shortages, seeking additional suppliers, and building more onshore facilities. Wall Street Journal ). Wall Street Journal ). Wall Street Journal ). Wall Street Journal ). Wall Street Journal ).

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Cost of Goods Sold Formula (with examples)

Unleashed

The Cost of Goods Sold formula is: Opening Inventory + Purchases + Production Costs – Closing Inventory = Cost of Goods Sold Below, we explain what the cost of goods sold (COGS) is, why it’s important for product businesses, and how to calculate COGS using the cost of goods sold formula. What is cost of goods sold?

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5 Best Logistics Books to Keep Within Reach

Supply Chain Opz

Then, we use these criteria to rank the books, - Practicality: we look closely at how each book can provide basic concepts and strategies of the "Integrated Logistics Functions", namely, customer service, purchasing, production planning, warehousing, and transportation in a clear and concise manner. Our Rating: 4.9/5 Our Rating: 4.9/5

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2024 Supply Chain Economic Update

American Global Logistics

Key Economic Indicator #3: Recession–Business Cycle Contraction As of December 2023, the Wall Street Journal reported that a soft landing was in the making. This flash metric registered at 50.3 Inventory Status: This measure is mixed. Inventory levels are contracting, but costs showing no change. up slightly from 48.1