Supply Chain: Lowering Your Total Cost of Business
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How to Increase Truck Loading Efficiency to Lower Your Cost of Business
In 2013, the Ford Motor Company made headlines by announcing that, instead of steel, its popular F-150 line of pickup trucks would be made almost entirely out of aluminum, from…
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Warehouse Operations Best Practices: Increasing Efficiency and Safety
If you manage a warehouse or work in logistics, you’ve probably experienced how a sudden influx of products you don’t have space for can disrupt all of your operations. It’s…
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Why Efficient Supply Chain Management Systems Rely on Plastic Pallets
In logistics management, timetables are finely tuned. Grocery and pharma industries depend on just-in-time delivery to get perishable goods to market. The just-in-time approach—pioneered by Toyota—focuses on making or delivering…
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Why Are Transportation Costs Increasing for Supply Chains?
Consumers are likely noticing that some grocery items–a box of Honey Nut Cheerios, for instance–now cost more than they used to. They’re also likely to find that these price increases…
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The Top 5 Pharma Supply Chain Challenges in 2018
In 2009, Johnson & Johnson made several recalls of their popular over-the-counter pain reliever Tylenol after a musty odor was reported by consumers. The company was continually forced to make…