A survey of 250 UK supply chain, warehouse and distribution centers indicated that every worker loses 15 minutes of productivity during each eight hour shift. For a company with just 50 warehouse employees, this adds up to 2,899 hours a year. This is solely based on ineffective warehouse processes. Most managers have been assigned to […]
Poll Shows Amazon Beats Apple for “Master of Supply Chain Excellence”
A global poll conducted by SCM World revealed Amazon’s supply chain is ‘more admired’ than its competitor, Apple Inc., in nearly all supply chain aspects. The poll of 1,136 executives rated Amazon and Apple on four supply chain features: agility, collaboration, execution and innovation. Apple beat Amazon in innovation, but 54% surveyed believed Amazon came […]
In-Depth Study Shows 3PL Use on the Rise & Helps Bottom Line
Capgemini recently released their 2012 3PL (Third-Party Logistics) study which assessed the 3PL market. In this 52 page study, 1561 shippers and 697 3PL executives were surveyed about strategic assessment, electronics, emerging markets, and talent management. The findings are checked for academic validity and it found some interesting insights into the current use of 3PL.
Large Retailers Still Struggle with Snags in Return Processes
In a recent survey, 84% of respondents said that the returns process is very to extremely important in their decision to continue to shop with a company. Over 30% responded that particular companies are more likely to make shipping mistakes. A similar percentage said mistakes are more likely to occur with a large retailer than […]
2013 Transportation Rate Forecast Shows Collaboration More Important than Ever
Though the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) December 2012 Semiannual Economic Forecast showed improvement in the U.S. that will continue through 2013 and growth in 17 manufacturing sectors, we should expect to see small spikes in supply chain and logistics cost for each transportation sector this year. Because carriers will work to standardize procedures for […]
A Competitive Necessity – Implementing SAP’s Express Ship Interface Gives Your Business an Advantage
It has been more than 25 years since FedEx offered a PC-based automated shipping solution and since that time, impressive innovations in electronic commerce have occurred throughout the next‐day carrier delivery industry. The question is: has your company taken advantage of the latest technological advances to increase market share, reduce the cost of doing business, […]
Consumer Feedback on E-Tail Order Fulfillment Processes
Consumers’ growing preference for online shopping resulted in unprecedented increases in order fulfillment and returns shipments in 2012. The numbers will increase in 2013 as the e-commerce & m-commerce (mobile commerce) movement is only revving up. With this rise in online orders, fulfillment and reverse logistics processes have never been as important for retail companies than they are as we enter the new year.
Which Features Will Get Your Company the Most from a TMS?
When a company starts to consider a Transportation Management System (TMS) for their out of control transportation operations, it is easy to rush to compile a list of functions and features most desired in their TMS. This list should be made later and instead there are a few frequently overlooked factors that first should be […]
Massive Inevitable Changes For E-Tailer Shipping
Thanks to Gray Thursday, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, online retail (“E-tail”) sales have hit record highs in the US this holiday season. FedEx is expecting to ship a record 19 Million packages today alone (12/10/12). UPS has predicted that they will ship over 527 million packages in the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas, as compared to 480 million packages total in 2011. The increase in shipping volume is shocking, and it’s only going up.
So what’s the impact? Both carriers and E-tailers are beginning to realize that, if they intend on maintaining the same levels of customer satisfaction and quality control as shipping volumes increase, the current partnership dynamic will be changing in a big way.
SAP Warehouse Optimization Solutions Presentation
Throughout the development and deployment our solutions & service offerings, we’ve taken note of the common “warehouse process pain points” our customers have experienced, as well as the solution applied to mitigate the problems. We’ve packaged all of this up into a presentation that walks our audience through a generic warehouse process flow, presenting common “symptoms” they might be seeing in their own environments, and then the “solutions” that Blue Harbors has developed to help.
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