What Is Logistics Management and Why Is It Important?
Logistics Management is critical to the success of manufactures, importers, and distributors.
Whatever the size of your business, you must understand the importance of organized logistics to meet customer demands. Excellence in Logistics Management gives companies a competitive advantage over their competitors. Logistics decisions can be the differentiator between success and failure of a company. When …Read More
3D printers are changing the way the world uses logistics
It’s no secret that transportation and delivery costs are a large part of manufacturing. While factories can work to reduce costs and create tight relationships to streamline their suppliers and customers, 3D printing options work to reduce the burden of delivery. By stationing local manufacturing centers in strategic markets the supply chain length is reduced …Read More
Transparency, honesty help set expectations when supply chains are disrupted
The children’s card game of “Go Fish” is a great guessing game, but not when you are running a global supply chain in the face of increasing congestion and delays.
It’s a great game to play with your kids, but bad to play with your 3PL partners.
Our clients are acutely aware of what is happening at …Read More
Documenting processes benefits everyone.
Over the past few weeks, the health concern in the news has brought to light how documenting processes and procedures for things is critical for all involved.
While certainly not drawing a parallel to the matters of life and death facing professionals on the front lines of public health, it does show how having instructions helps people do things …Read More
It all starts with asking…"Why"?
People in medicine are trained to treat the cause, not the symptoms. Prescribing drugs for abdominal pain in lieu of removing an inflamed appendix is not how a good doctor should treat a patient. Yes, they’re hurting, but why are they hurting?
The same is true throughout business.
Why did ‘x’ not happen?
Accepting a service failure “just because” …Read More
Three reasons to use EDI through the supply chain.
The greatest waste of time in business today is having to manually key data that resides in one system into another. Flex Logistics fights inefficiency at every turn (see our last post on our efforts towards lean / 5S) and prefers to share information with our customers via Electronic Data Interchange (or EDI). With this in …Read More
E-commerce Takes Time to Ship – Here’s Why.
Without a doubt, several companies have driven major advances in e-commerce fulfillment, warehouse handling, distribution and shipping. The first is Wal-Mart who has innovated and found savings throughout the supply chain through technology and efficiencies (and chargebacks, just ask the people who sell to them). The second is Seattle-based Amazon, whose formerly $79 (now $99) …Read More
Warehouse operator liability for goods in our facility.
Every year our insurance provider reviews our policy and our business for substantive changes that would impact the policy we carry and what they are underwriting.
As part of this year’s review, they provided a handy reminder for us about our responsibilities and liabilities, as well as the rights of our customers for the goods we …Read More
The importance of visibility with your 3PL
When you were a kid, going on a scavenger hunt to find things was lots of fun. As an adult, especially when you’re trying to do your job, hunting for things takes time. Similarly, navigating a maze, along with your other responsibilities, is not something your schedule allows.
This becomes especially acute when it comes to …Read More
What You Need To Know About Food Grade Warehousing
Ingredients and Supplement Products Must Be Stored in a Food Grade Facility
Companies that store and distribute food products must go through programs and implement procedures that most warehouses may overlook. Although the food business can be lucrative and rewarding, following all of the special requirements to ensure your food handling business is in compliance can …Read More