Cerasis

JULY 13, 2015

Throughout the supply chain, the use of metrics to track and understand processes provides an invaluable resource for ensuring increased production and customer satisfaction. Additionally, the use of metrics fosters positive relationships with coworkers and adherence to rulesets and best practices for the respective third-party logistics provider (3PL). What Distribution Center Metrics Need Tracking? What distribution center metrics are you tracking or are not listed here?

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Cerasis

JULY 20, 2015

For instance, a growing number of cell phone manufacturers have established procedures in place for consumers who wish to return an older model and ensure that the device is refurbished or recycled rather than dumped into the local landfill. BONUS: Download the Ultimate Guide to Transportation Reverse Logistics White Paper. Importance of Metrics in Reverse Logistics Management. Energy used in handling returns : This metric is used in sustainability programs.

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Cerasis

MAY 20, 2015

When you choose a company to transport your freight or to supply you with the materials you need to manufacture a product, you are putting your hard work and reputation in their hands. The next posts in the series will break down metrics and issues to consider in SQM by industry and conclude with a case study on the application of SQM. 5 Key Metrics to Use for Scoring Supplier Quality Management (From LNS Research ).

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 1, 2018

Many retailers consider competing against Amazon their biggest challenge. While the impact of Amazon is real, it is only a thread in the larger retail competition tapestry. Amazon offers breadth, but brick and mortars offers “now”, and a tactile consumer shopping experience is still a retailer’s greatest asset. The ability to serve this demand is foundational to the success or failure of a retailer, but the challenge doesn’t hinge on the strategy leadership sets.

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Cerasis

JUNE 30, 2017

Manufacturers have always struggled to know their customers. Unfortunately, this means manufacturers face an even greater challenge, as more customers translate into greater use of customer service. But, our predictions’ post noted how manufacturers are having trouble with transforming customer input into responsiveness and enhancements to the customer experience. But, how do manufacturers turn their focus to the customer experience? Manufacturing

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

APRIL 20, 2020

What Is Retail Consolidation & Is It Right for You? Handling ever-changing consumer and retailer demands can be overwhelming—especially if you’re working with multiple retailers across the country or the world. If you’re currently shipping less than truckload (LTL) or underutilized truckload freight, a retail consolidation program might be the answer you need. What is a retail consolidation program? Retailer compliance programs are unique to each company.

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Transplace

JANUARY 31, 2019

Overcoming Retailers Delivery Requirements with Data Reporting . Within the last few years, the rise of omni-channel fulfillment has dramatically impacted the retail industry and its vast supply chain networks. To overcome the challenges presented by these evolving expectations, major retailers are also evolving their business processes and increasing delivery requirements to keep pace with customer demand and gain a competitive advantage.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

My journey to understand supply chain Metrics That Matter started three years ago. We are currently mapping the progress of all public manufacturing, distribution and retail companies on three factors: Strength: Year-over-year improvement on operating margin and inventory turns for the past six years. Balance: The ability to balance a portfolio of metrics to maximize market capitalization and free cash flow. How do you balance metrics ? .

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SupplyPike

MAY 14, 2020

These activities can involve storage and transport of inventory or supplies, monitoring of day-to-day activities, the preparation behind these processes, and blending these different components throughout the supply chain. With rising consumer demand, retailers are under pressure to stock the merchandise in demand or lose consumers to another who can fulfill the same demand. Most manufacturers depend on just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing policies. Learn about.

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Cerasis

APRIL 16, 2018

There is no doubt, that the retail landscape is increasingly looking like an online one as traditional brick-and-mortar retailers, such as Toys R Us, Foot Locker, and Best Buy mobile shutter hundreds of stores unable to keep up with the changing customer that wants fast, free delivery all with just a click of a button. Despite some struggles, retail as a whole had a solid 2017, as total sales reached $3.5 The State of Retailing Online (SORO) survey of U.S.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 15, 2013

The Top 10 Transportation Management Systems. Each year as businesses of every size and industry fight to broaden market share the same old questions haunt the boardrooms, “How can we reduce transportation costs? The answer almost always requires close scrutiny of a companies supply chain infrastructure and the status of its Transportation Management System (TMS). Transportation Management Systems. JDA Transportation Manager.

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6 River Systems

AUGUST 19, 2020

Today, anyone can start a retail business with a couple of clicks on a laptop from a café. Manufacturing companies have the option of selling directly to consumers without the help of any retail middle men.

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CH Robinson Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

What Is Retail Consolidation & Is It Right for You? Handling ever-changing retailer requirements can be overwhelming—especially if you’re working with multiple retailers across the country or the world. If you’re currently shipping less than truckload (LTL) or underutilized truckload freight, a retail consolidation program might be the answer you need. What is a retail consolidation program? This helps meet any retailer compliance programs that may exist.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The reorder point is the level of stock at which you ought to reorder more stock (or components, in the case of manufacturers). Safety stock levels for manufacturers. The safety stock formula is used to set ideal stock levels for manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and distributors.

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CH Robinson Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Handling ever-changing retailer requirements can be overwhelming—especially if you’re working with multiple retailers across the country or the world. If you’re currently shipping less than truckload (LTL) or underutilized truckload freight, a retail consolidation program might be the answer you need. What is a retail consolidation program? This helps meet any retailer compliance programs that may exist. Retailer compliance programs are unique to each company.

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Supply Chain Cowboy

MARCH 1, 2015

But is your scorecard missing key metrics? It includes a free Excel template that you can modify to match exactly what metrics you want to measure. While some of these metrics might not apply to your business model, there’s definitely a few to add if they measure something important to you and your customers. In fact, many big-box retailers are uncomfortable being more than 30% of a supplier’s revenue base. Specific Quality Metrics.

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BluJay Solutions

JUNE 2, 2020

Holland, MI – June 2, 2020 – BluJay Solutions , a leading provider of supply chain software and services, announces the launch of its Transportation Modeling application, built in collaboration with LLamasoft , the leading provider of AI-powered supply chain analytics software. BluJay’s Transportation Modeling uses data generated through the network and applications within the larger BluJay ecosystem. BluJay’s Transportation Modeling application leverages LLamasoft’s llama.ai

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In its simplest form, fourth-party logistics is a model in which manufacturers hand over the entirety of the organisation and oversight of their supply chain to a 4PL provider. the digitisation of manufacturing. 3) Ecommerce and Multi-Channel Retail. Transport.

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Cerasis

MARCH 13, 2015

Here at Cerasis, there are numerous technologies that we offer that are designed to help simplify the way your transportation management practices. Using a Transportation Management System to Streamline Transportation Management Practices. There are plenty of different shipping companies out there, and using a transportation management system to manage all inbound and outbound shipping needs will put those shippers who use one at an extreme competitive advantage.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2015

In the last decade, many companies, especially those with manufacturing operations, have evolved direct materials sourcing from an administrative function to a strategic procurement process. Transportation has followed the same evolutionary pattern, moving upstream from day-to-day freight transactions to an integral component of top-level corporate planning and procurement strategy. As a strategic process, transportation procurement may still seem very tedious and challenging.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2017

If your company is trading in the fast-paced arena of omnichannel retail , this is one buzzword you really need to pay attention to. We’ll explain how to use your supply chain to improve your last-mile delivery service and make sure it differentiates your retail business from its competitors, depending on whether you plan to compete on cost or quality. Strangely enough, the asset that matters most here is the one which retailers often overlook completely—the human one.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 22, 2015

Having both dedicated drivers and proprietary transportation and logistics technology are luxuries that only the biggest volume service providers can afford — think UPS, FedEx and Amazon. It’s not that surprising, though, since the vast majority of distributors and retailers aren’t thinking broad enough when it comes to cost either, and they typically cite the average rate they pay across their couriers.

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Zipline Logistics

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Collect shipping or customer pick-up (CPU) delivery options are an often promising solution for brands working with large, nationwide retailers. . In its simplest sense, collect shipping is an arrangement between vendors and retailers that calls for the big-box store to pick up orders.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2020

The supply chain is complex non-linear system that is easily thrown out of balance through a focus on functional metrics. They rock back and forth in improving singular metrics but struggle to improve a portfolio of growth, margin, inventory performance, and asset utilization.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Even as lockdowns have eased, there has been a change in consumer behaviour, such as professional office workers now choosing to work from home to reduce their exposure to public transport. Be flexible and agile: explore and test new ideas with your retail partners. Subscribe Here!

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Consumers now have higher expectations regarding their purchase experience—convenient pickup and delivery options; an increased demand for accurate, real-time visibility to their order; and easy to use, low cost transportation purchasing options are critical.

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Cerasis

OCTOBER 8, 2018

E-commerce has presented wholesale distributors and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with a crown opportunity for growth, but it comes at the cost of transitioning from single-channel shipping. e-commerce retail sales have increased 3.9 Unfortunately, manufacturers and OEMs may lack the infrastructure necessary to facilitate such changes, and resellers face challenges in optimizing procurement for the world of e-commerce.

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Supply Chain Nation

AUGUST 9, 2012

Retailers, for example, would look to a supply chain solution provider to help them establish KPIs for measuring forecast accuracy, demand satisfaction, and channel or store performance. For example, improving inventory management may lead to opportunities to deliver more efficiency from transportation operations. KPIs also enable you to demonstrate the value of IT to business users and management through metrics that are meaningful to the business community.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

For December 2015, retail sales were the lowest since 2009. The Amazon Impact is having an impact on Wal-Mart and retail in general. Manufacturers are Now Selling Directly to Consumers. I expect a somber mood at the National Retail show. As a result, both retail and consumer products processes are being redefined. Consider the recent news… Why the closure of retail stores? This is an analysis of traditional retail minus eCommerce pure plays.)

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Transplace

MARCH 18, 2020

Transplace is closely monitoring the outbreak and the impact the reaction is having on the transportation market. Toward that end, we would like to provide you with four types of updates: 1) what we are seeing in the transportation marketplace, 2) what our customers are experiencing, 3) some best practices we recommend with regard to bidding, and 4) the actions we are taking to protect our employees and community. Letter from the CEO: Coronavirus Market Update.

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USC Consulting Group

AUGUST 11, 2020

The novel coronavirus has produced a lot of uncertainty, and for manufacturers in the pulp and paper industry, that includes uncertainty related to demand. Indeed, numerous retailers have implemented policies that require customers to wear them, including Target, Best Buy, Walmart, and Costco.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

A senior executive from a large global manufacturer came to speak in my MBA class this week, and discussed the major shifts in global business that was occurring due to the emergence of omni-channel capabilities in the supply chain. Retailers channel knowledge existed in technical and functional silos – people had separate silos of activity in this model. Retailers have established a single view of the customer, but are still operating largely in functional silos.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 21, 2020

Having worked at a Retailer myself I have first hand knowledge of the challenges there can be in running a Retail Supply Chain. As such we wrote The Hidden Complexity of the Retail Supply Chain to share some of these experiences. Many retailers easily carry tens of thousands of SKUs. My experience in Retail involved a company that insisted on handling picking and packing individual units of any given SKU, not even just case handling. Subscribe Here!

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BluJay Solutions

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Unique set of transportation rate, capacity, and service KPI benchmarks provides intelligence to inform decisions for shippers and carriers. Holland, MI – November 7, 2019 – BluJay Solutions , a leading provider of supply chain software and services powered by the world’s first Global Trade Network, announces the launch of the Freight Market Index , a monthly report providing transportation market intelligence for shippers, carriers, and industry professionals.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Manufacturing in Belgium. Typical manufacturing products made in Belgium include engineering and metal products, automobile assemblies, transportation equipment, scientific and precision instruments, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, textiles, glass, petroleum and food and beverages. Manufacturing accounts for about 22 percent of the GDP. Retail businesses, tourism and financial services account for the bulk of the service sector. billion metric tons of goods in 2015.

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