Oct 18, 2022 | Article, Business Improvement, Inventory - S&OP
Too much inventory in your distribution network? Inventory costs too high? Are profits too low? Stock-outs, availability issues, and SLOBs impacting service performance? These are all pervasive issues for supply chain operators worldwide—and are classic symptoms of...
Oct 14, 2022 | 3PL, 4PL, 5PL, Business Improvement, Logistics, Outsourcing, Videos, Vlogs
Getting this right is an essential foundation to any Logistics Outsourcing activity. So make sure your RFP / RFT contains a great service specification, often called a Statement of Work (SOW). Download a suggested Contents List for your Logistics...
Aug 19, 2022 | Business Improvement, Cost Saving, Cost to Serve, Videos, Vlogs
Here are 5 Cost to Serve advantages from which your supply chain could benefit. Complete YouTube playlist on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list… And more Cost-to-Serve resources throughout the website: Cost to Serve at a Glance: 9...
Jul 5, 2022 | Article, Business Improvement, Slotting, Supply Chain, Warehouse
Slotting is the shorthand term for the process of allocating product, (SKU’s), to locations in the Warehouse according to business rules and product characteristics. It is normally restricted to the picking face or on-line locations only however it can impose some...
Jun 21, 2022 | Article, Business Improvement, Cost to Serve, Supply Chain
Supply chains are complex entities. Even if you simplify your product range and your upstream suppliers, you still have to deal with the ramifications of diverse customers, their expectations, their location and the logistics needed to meet their requirements. While...
Dec 28, 2021 | Article, Business Improvement, Inventory - S&OP, Performance Measurement - KPIs, Supply Chain KPIs
Every article we publish covering logistics and supply chain KPIs piques our website visitors’ interest and receives a wealth of positive feedback. In addition, those articles inevitably stimulate readers to post questions, which, over time, we try to answer in...
