Nov 18, 2015 | Transport |
Planning routes for a fleet of trucks has never been an easy task, except perhaps for very small logistics operations with a single-figure-sized fleet. If your company ships to hundreds of customers each day, using a multi-drop fleet of 50 or more vehicles, producing... Oct 27, 2015 | Freight Management, Transport |
As freight transportation costs continue to rise year-on-year, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and any other organisations that are part of a supply chain must think smarter about pushing down the cost of moving goods from A to B. Every shipper’s challenge in... Jul 29, 2015 | Offshoring, Transport, Trends |
Soaring crude oil prices and the explosion in globalisation (and corresponding reduction in transport availability) over the last decade or so, have together kiboshed some of the factors which once fueled a steady growth in offshore manufacture and procurement. ... Jul 23, 2015 | Articles, Cost to Serve, Distribution Network Design, Transport |
Conducting a Cost to Serve analysis can help you and your company understand where the biggest influences on your profit margins lie. It can also serve as a basis for understanding which customers are more or less profitable and for identifying ways to do things... Feb 17, 2015 | 3PL, Free Logistics and Supply Chain Events, Free Stuff, Outsourcing, Transport, Webinars |
These simple tips will help you better understand how to reduce your distribution costs. And if you’ve never put your distribution ‘under the microscope’ before, you could potentially save up to 16% in total distribution costs! And it can be very low hanging... Sep 13, 2014 | Business Improvement, Distribution Network Design, Transport |
There are still ‘ripe’ opportunities to save Logistics costs. And one of these is in delivery route optimisation. The ‘smart’ operators out there know this, but I’m constantly amazed at the number of organisations running large delivery... 