Metrics Network Design Warehousing 
Supply Chain Movement
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
AIMMS Network Design provides functionality that helps supply chain teams model carbon emissions and other non-financial metrics like water consumption and carbon equivalents. Considering sustainability trade-offs in supply chain network design. What are the key KPIs for SC Network Design? •
Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
I was promoted to run the warehouse, and at the time, I had no experience in distribution, but was asked to run the largest distribution center in the system. A warehouse is the tip of the spear for dysfunction. As a result, the warehouse, supporting the factory, was always full. I also ran three outside warehouses.
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Logistics Viewpoints
JUNE 19, 2023
However, AI’s inability to solve the very limited problem of ensuring that inventory is located in the right place in a warehouse suggests that planners don’t have to worry too much about job security. For fulfillment to be efficient, a warehouse needs the right inventory located in the right slots in a warehouse.
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 8, 2024
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. Think about physical network design. Most companies do not actively design flows.)
Logistics Viewpoints
JULY 19, 2023
In the survey, APQC used a series of performance metrics, including net promoter score, customer retention rate, perfect order performance, and on-time delivery among others, to identify the top performing companies. A final way to improve supply chain sustainability is by optimizing returns at the store and warehouse level.
CHAINalytics
AUGUST 25, 2021
As warehousing undergoes a fundamental shift with the onslaught of e-commerce, it’s imperative that organizations identify the specific drivers that impact performance, establish e-commerce-relevant metrics, and continually monitor performance to navigate this transition successfully.
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
A network design model figures out where factories and warehouses should be located. The key solutions are demand forecasting/inventory optimization, supply planning, and network design. The key solution for this is network design. Supply and network design models are constraint-based models.
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