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Real-World Scenario: Best Practices for Warehouse Contracts: Part One

GlobalTranz

When it comes to the logistics industry, whether it's transportation management contracts or warehouse contracts, there are a million moving parts, and as many questions. In the below is a real world example of a consultant coming to a third party logistics company with the goal of choosing a warehouse and 3pl provider.

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How Good is Your Logistics Service Provider?

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, that sudden increase in warehousing charges from my LSP is anyone else seeing that? The KPI Harnessing the collective experience of shippers in a more formal way is the KPI, a benchmarking survey for evaluating the performance of logistics service providers.

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The Top Supply Chain KPIs to Know

GlobalTranz

The perfect order KPI tracks the overall accuracy and timeliness of each shipment. Perfect Order KPI = On-Time Delivery and Shipment KPI x Complete Order Percentage x Damage-Free Percentage x Accurate Invoicing Percentage. To calculate the perfect order percentage, one must understand the on-time KPI.

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Service Level Should Be Your Number One Supply Chain KPI…But What Does It Really Mean?

ToolsGroup

Most use ‘forecast accuracy’ as the main KPI to do this. Therefore it follows logically that filling orders–or order line fill rate (OLFR)–should be the number one KPI that tells you whether you’re meeting service levels. First, we need to establish: what’s the whole point of supply chains? To service demand!

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The Big List of Supply Chain KPI Mistakes to Avoid

Logistics Bureau

Who would have thought that measuring the performance of supply chain processes like warehousing, procurement, or logistics could be so troublesome? Well, we know a few supply chain managers who, having made some of the mistakes covered by this article, would attest to the potential for difficulty.

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Logistics KPI Tips – Key Performance Indicators

Logistics Bureau

Here’s the link to Audit your Warehouse: Boost Your Warehouse Performance Related articles on this topic have appeared throughout our website, check them out: The Best KPI: The Probability of a Perfect Order KPIs for Your Warehouse: How to Choose and Use Them KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics The Big List of Supply (..)

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What Are the Top Warehouse Management KPIs Every Supply Chain Exec Should Measure

GlobalTranz

Warehouse managers face many challenges. These challenges can be overwhelming, but supply chain executives and managers can simplify the process by tracking these top warehouse management KPIs (key performance indicators). The Top Warehouse Management KPIs: Receiving and Put-Away KPIs. Storage KPIs.