Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Smart warehouses, governed by standards like ISO 9001 for quality management, are also integrating AI systems to optimize inventory management and automate the loading and unloading processes. Predictive maintenance, powered by real-time data and aligned with SAE guidelines, will minimize vehicle downtime, and ensure smoother operations.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 8, 2020

In our increasingly digital world, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part and parcel of our lives –and it is becoming particularly useful to business owners and inventory managers. In this article, we explore the relationship between AI and inventory management, and how AI can assist in inventory management. What is AI?

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Supply Chain Opz

MARCH 26, 2015

Inventory management is one of the most important tasks for supply chain management professionals. However, most inventory control theories are too complicated or too difficult to apply to real world situations. The reason is that most people now realize the value of planning practice like Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP).

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The Network Effect

OCTOBER 3, 2014

A number of comprehensive business process and supply chain specifications designed for the automotive industry are in use today, including the TS16949 standards (related to ISO 9001) and the AIAG Materials Management Operating Guidelines (MMOG). Even the traditional EDI layer is laden with inefficiency.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 15, 2023

Define the thresholds and guidelines for actions. This deeper understanding of customer demand translates into a more effective inventory strategy, especially for items with intermittent demand (which often end up comprising the bulk of excess inventory). Start with the basic questions: Is it a strategic or tactical impact?

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2021

Among the universal challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed upon the supply chain management profession is the question of inventory, specifically, “how much is enough?”. It wasn’t long ago that businesses were asking, “By how much can I reduce my levels of inventory?”. Let’s Start with Safety Stock.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 3, 2023

A main challenge is to avoid excessive inventory while maintaining enough stock for warm weather and not wait for summer to begin to make ice cream. It starts with planning and building inventory at the end of the year by implementing reliable demand forecasts plus sound inventory and production management.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 28, 2020

The products are packed according to the size of the order and predefined packaging and packing guidelines. Lack of inventory planning. If you run out of inventory, the marketplaces like Amazon penalize ecommerce sellers who run out of inventory. In the background, the tracking information is communicated to the customer.

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Kanban Logistics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Warehouse GMP guidelines help protect quality and potency of these products during key parts of the pharmaceutical supply chain. We’ll take a closer look at those guidelines in this article and tell you how your third-party logistics (3PL) partner can help. What are warehouse GMP guidelines?

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ShipBob

JULY 14, 2021

Ecommerce warehousing is more than just storing inventory on shelves. So how does an ecommerce warehouse keep their employees safe as they move quickly from the inventory shelves to the warehouse picking and packing stations? A quick history of warehouse safety guidelines & regulations. Reduces inventory damage.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

With uncertainty a guarantee in the year ahead, leaders are realising the need to adopt applications that will improve visibility into demand and inventory, as well as tools that can help them model and simulate “what if?” Risk planning and technology utilisation. The effort will absolutely pay off. Building capability and consistency.

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OptiProERP

MAY 19, 2019

The most common concern supply chain management experts struggle with is accurately identifying the causes of inventory inconsistencies. If a discrepancy is identified when users pick an item or perform a count, an inventory correction needs to be performed. Every inventory issue has a specific method that can be adopted to resolve it.

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Logility

MARCH 6, 2024

When engaged correctly, advanced analytics can help you: Optimize business decisions related to demand, inventory, production, and distribution Reduce cycle times Gain organizational visibility and increase your bottom line But integrating advanced analytics into your organization isn’t always as simple as grabbing a new piece of software.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 18, 2016

Meanwhile, e-commerce is driving better forecasting capabilities and enhancing inventory management, which translates into better optimization of freight, inventory management processes and packaging needs. Hours of Service Guidelines Are Evolving. Hours of service (HOS) guidelines are also changing for drivers.

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USC Consulting Group

APRIL 1, 2020

Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP) is a dynamic process in which the company’s operating plan is updated on a regular monthly or more frequent basis. Another contribution of Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning is that it enables the company to fine-tune its long-range strategic plan and annual business plan.

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Unleashed

MARCH 24, 2020

Effective inventory control is a process. It involves many areas of an organisation and is a delicate balance between the three categories of inventory costs. As one of a business’ greatest assets, inventory is also the cause one of the hardest decisions manufacturers, retailers and eCommerce businesses have to make.

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QAD

JULY 9, 2020

They developed new policies for identifying essential services and personnel, and adapted existing guidelines for work hours, shifts, sick leave, travel, and face-to-face meetings with customers, suppliers and employees. . They provided computers and data communications infrastructure so that many employees could work from home.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Create a set of rules and guidelines for managing both inbound and outbound freight. Keep customers informed of available inventory. Shippers should expect a 3PL-shipper partnership to follow these steps to improve e-commerce logistics management. Benchmark existing freight spend and use of transportation modes.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Sarah Voorhees, senior director of demand and supply planning at American Tire Distributors (ATD) has spent the last 12 years of her career in supply chain leadership roles, where she’s reimagined demand and supply planning and inventory management practices at consumer goods and distribution companies. In short: resilience and trust.

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

End-to-end supply chain traceability is achievable through mobile inventory solutions and barcoding. Efficient technologies for inventory management may provide the answer. Here are four ways going digital with mobile inventory technology can help food and beverage industry modernize: 1. It Enables Farm-to-fork Tracking.

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Intelligent Audit

JULY 27, 2021

Supply and demand are two sides of the same coin, the vital coin of inventory management supply chain analytics. Without adequate inventory and supply to go along with capacity and demand, supply chain management will struggle to keep pace during peak seasons. Peak Season Inventory Management and Fulfillment Depends on Market Trends.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 17, 2018

The resilience of the supply chain (where and how much to buffer variability of all kinds) will be a key output of the two upper levels of planning that will feed Respond planning to help set guidelines as to how Respond planning can resolve issues in the short term” ( 2017 Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Planning Technologies , 18 December 2017).

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Unleashed

JANUARY 14, 2024

Manufacturing inventory management is crucial to the success and profitability of your manufacturing operations. This guide for manufacturers explains how it works and explores the most effective ways to manage inventory in manufacturing. In this manufacturing inventory management guide What is manufacturing inventory management?

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RFgen

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Mobile barcoding software automates inventory data collection. Every inventory movement updates Costpoint and other ERPs in real time, ensuring accurate, up-to-date stock levels. Mobile barcoding software can reduce operating costs by automating inventory data collection. It Gives You the Agility to Pivot.

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

End-to-end supply chain traceability is achievable through mobile inventory solutions and barcoding. Efficient technologies for inventory management may provide the answer. Here are four ways going digital with mobile inventory technology can help food and beverage industry modernize: 1. It Enables Farm-to-fork Tracking.

Food 52

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Logility

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Theoretically, a resilient supply chain can be built by creating redundancies—holding extra inventory, maintaining just-in-case capacity, having many suppliers, etc. Organizations that follow guidelines are more agile and better positioned to embrace new paradigms. Consider redundancy.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

A barcode inventory system allows goods to be tracked along the supply chain and within a company’s storage facilities. It uses technology such as barcode scanners and barcode inventory software to improve the accuracy of your inventory management processes. What is a barcode inventory system? Let’s get right into it.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

A good WMS system has a number of other useful tools for managing orders, inventory, and shipments. Manage Inventory. Inventory is a vital component to your operation. How much inventory are you going to have on hand at a given time? Your WMS can help you with dynamic slotting so you can keep on top of your inventory.

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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 29, 2014

In this series on global fashion retail we have discussed about network design and inventory location in Chapter 1, stores replenishment in Chapter 2 and sourcing and manufacturing lead times in Chapter 3. Chapter 1 of this global fashion retail series was about network design and inventory location. Talent development. Conclusion.

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Think about it: How much time is wasted hunting down misplaced inventory? These include: Barcode Scanning Devices: These handheld devices, equipped with integrated inventory management apps, enable real-time tracking and data entry. Think real-time inventory visibility across all your locations.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

To maximize efficiency, distributors should adhere to the following set of guidelines for evaluating and planning their supply chain with the strategies mentioned below. It involves various activities, such as warehousing, inventory management, transportation, and logistics.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 1, 2015

ISO publishes guidelines for conformance to its standards. A company in need of lean manufacturing practices tends to be easy to identify, typically displaying multiple of the following symptoms of operational deficiency: Inventory amasses in buffer stocks. Inventory records, product specs, shipping documents contain errors.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 29, 2018

It also stokes better supplier-carrier-customer relationships, reduces the need for excess inventory, improves reliability across the supply chain, and creates an atmosphere of accountability for all supply chain partners. Three Steps to Effective Inbound Freight Management. Then, implement a standard routing guide for supplier compliance.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 13, 2020

Since we’ve been discussing recently how invaluable end-to-end supply chain visibility is to managing disruption , here are a few more – quite achievable – scenarios when leveraging the software: Reduce inventory liability. Say the company guidelines are to write-off 0.6% million, with an EBIAT impact of $1.3 million or 15.9%.

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Efficient Inventory Management : Blockchain can be used to make a common and continuous perspective on stock across the inventory network. Compliance and Auditing : Blockchain empowers constant checking and following of consistency with guidelines and industry principles.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 6, 2013

Do they follow DOE guidelines? It is very important to manage this process. For example, do you know how your carrier assesses its surcharge, or how it is calculated. Do you know their multiplier? Is your carrier using the surcharge to compensate for low rates? Will you be ready if and when fuel prices go?

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Automation and robotics, along with drones, have revolutionized modern warehousing by reducing the need for manual labor, increasing employee safety, and improving inventory accuracy. That way, you can continuously monitor critical processes like inventory tracking and asset management.

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