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Consumer activism and demands for fast, on-demand delivery with sustainable logistics are both on the rise.
Sustainable logistics solutions like recycling and reusing delivery packaging are affordable ways for online businesses to make same-day deliveries eco-friendly and satisfy their customer base.
This article is the first in a series on creating sustainable logistics for last-mile delivery.
Continue reading “Sustainable Logistics: Making the Last Mile Eco-Friendly!”Working with a 3PL can be an excellent option for organizations that want to streamline their supply chain and unburden themselves of duties and expenses that they are not equipped to handle in-house.
Of course with a lot of third party providers out there, you need to take the time to compare and contrast competing partners before you come to a decision.
To help you with this process, here are just three questions to ask your 3PL which will sort the most suitable 3PLs from the rest of the field.
Continue reading “4 Questions to Ask Your 3PL!”An ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system is the central element of almost every business today. Sometimes referred to as the “Accounting ERP”, these systems are necessary and integrating ERP is often even mandated by law, no matter how large or small the business is.
However, the ERP functionality is rarely enough to cover all the aspects of a full-fledged transportation management business. That is why logistics companies often look for some additional solutions with broader functionality.
In this article we talk about the integration of the ERP software in logistics and custom integrating it with the transportation management systems (TMS).
Continue reading “Integrating ERP with TMS and WMS in Logistics!”The latest major disruption that has the entire supply chain world buzzing? The massive global shipping container shortage.
Over the past 15 months, we’ve been writing on the Argentus blog about the immense impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on global supply chains – particularly, as you might expect of a recruitment firm, from the perspective of talent and skills.
From supply disruptions, to rapidly changing consumer behaviour leading to increased difficulty for demand forecasting, to challenges companies face when protecting their front-line supply chain workers, the pandemic has raised a whole host of challenges — making supply chains one of the more disrupted aspects of the economy.
Over a year into the pandemic, supply chain professionals continue to perform heroics as the challenges continue to mount – both from new disruptions, and from knock-on effects from those that have come before.
Continue reading “Understanding the Shipping Container Shortage!”Better inventory management, intelligent manufacturing, flexible logistical systems, and real-time delivery controls have all been made possible by the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the supply chain and logistics.
AI in supply chain and logistics is primarily used to boost production and efficiency. Modern supply chain management uses people, technology, and software.
Artificial intelligence benefits (AI) have emerged as the most powerful technology application in several industries, including supply chains and logistics.
Continue reading “How Artificial Intelligence Benefits Logistics and Supply Chain!”With increasing customer expectations for speed and reliability in order fulfillment, it’s important to make sure you have processes in place that allow for faster delivery times for your customers and fulfill customer orders faster.
Here are some strategies that you can use to streamline the process of fulfilling customer orders so you can turn around time-sensitive deliveries quicker while still providing reliable results.
Continue reading “8 Ways to Fulfill Customer Orders Faster!”Major delays in the supply chain of late have made it apparent that enhanced container visibility and supply chain management is needed. Although many of the reasons behind such recent delays — and the subsequent domino effect they produced — are not controllable, there are ways to improve the process.
Below is a brief look into a few of the hindrances affecting the supply chain, as well as how a more proactive data-gathering approach can be used to improve container visibility and container management.
Continue reading “Using Advanced Container Visibility Data to Enhance Operations!”Not much happens without transportation. And transportation does not happen without management. More specifically, that is, Freight Management and Logistics management.
Even though we are increasingly immersed in the information age and the proliferation of digital technologies the movement of goods from point A to point B, any where in the world is the drum beat of our lives.
The combinations and permutations of transportation modes, routes, carriers and resources is infinite. As such the ways in which all of this is managed also has innumerable approaches. Given the importance of this aspect of Supply Chain we would like to spotlight our best articles on this subject matter.
Here are our Top 16 articles on Freight and Logistics!
Continue reading “Featuring Our Top 16 Articles on Freight and Logistics!”Recently we took our Granddaughter to see a Cirque du Soleil show. While we had seen several Cirque shows before it was her first time. The show made an indelible impression on her. She talked about it for weeks and will remember it for the rest of her life. We were proud that we gave her such a lifelong memory.
In thinking about the show and its construct I thought about the incredible amount of risk that the performers and producers are managing. These world class performers have astonishing talent but they are also working in an environment designed to eliminate risk and maximize safety.
Supply Chain Professionals, although not usually theatrical like Cirque du Soleil, also work in an environment in which they are managing a tremendous amount of risk. While most jobs are not life threatening the level of risk is still prevalent.
What are the risks that Supply Chain people deal with every day and what is Supply Chain Risk Management?
Continue reading “Supply Chain Risk Management is a Cirque Du Soleil Calibre Act!”A lot more goes into successful order fulfillment than shelves of neatly stacked products. There is an art and a science to pick and pack methods.
Good inventory management and the right pick and pack software will help you ship orders with maximum speed and accuracy.
Here is your ultimate guide to pick and pack methods.
Continue reading “The Ultimate Guide to Pick and Pack Methods!”Things can always be faster when you work in a warehouse or distribution center. Speed has become the name of the game when it comes to staying competitive in the global supply chain.
Major players like Amazon and Walmart have distribution centers all over the world, pumping out packages at lightning speed.
If you want to keep your customers satisfied, you need to keep things moving in your warehouse or distribution center. Use these tips to keep up the pace and make your facility as efficient as possible.
Continue reading “Warehouse Efficiency Improvement Tips!”Selling products that came from abroad as a successful importer can be a pretty rewarding business, especially if there is a growing local market that can buy your goods. Imported products tend to be available for a cheaper price, and usually in high quality.
And with the rapid spread of globalization, new and commercial items from an international supplier could emerge, which gives importers instant access and offer it their own country maximizing their profits in the long run.
If you’re one of those aspiring entrepreneurs who are planning to start an importing business, then you should be aware of some tips that can help you thrive and succeed as the competition becomes tougher as the years go by.
Continue reading “How to Be a Successful Importer! (Infographic)”Everyone knows that the cannabis industry is a boom market: it’s worth $7.3B in the U.S., and expected to reach $24.5B by 2020. Closer to home in Canada, sales are expected to reach $5.7 billion by 2020 creating cannabis challenges as a result.
Banks like BMO are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in cannabis companies, and publically-traded producers like Aphria, Aurora, Canopy Growth Corp, MedReleaf and others are spooling up massive operations ahead of legalization in October 2018.
Continue reading “Challenges in the Cannabis Supply Chain!”One of my first professional jobs was in Warehouse Space Planning and Warehouse Management. You can’t go through a warehouse without seeing pallets. I quickly became very familiar with the standard half-sized and full-sized (40″ x 48″) pallets that the company was using at the time, though I was unaware of the Pallet Supply Chain.
Having been in dozens and dozens of Warehouses, Distribution Centres, and Manufacturing facilities every since I’ve seen pallets everywhere. And while most of us probably overlook them their importance can’t be overstated. Pallets are the standard platform on which virtually all of our goods are moved and stored.
Given the astronomical increases in lumber pricing, the core element of the wooden pallet, we felt it was time to look at the Pallet Supply Chain and the impacts that lumber pricing is having on this industry.
Continue reading “The Pallet Supply Chain and Lumber Price Impacts!”Here we provide the Digital Supply Chain Overview video for you. Supply Chain 4.0 is the manifestation of the Digital Supply Chain as enabled by the proliferation of Disruptive Technologies that are permeating every aspect of our lives.
The Digital Supply Chain Overview video, created and published at Supply Chain Game Changer, is focused on the Digital Supply Chain, or otherwise called Supply Chain 4.0, because of its profound impact in defining the Supply Chain of the Future!
Continue reading “Digital Supply Chain Overview! (Video)”
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