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Best Practice - What should you expect from a warehouse consultant
What should you expect from a warehouse consultant?
Whilst outsourcing has always been prevalent in the logistics and supply chain sectors, there has been a marked increase in the requirements for Warehouse design and operational consultants over the last 12 months. This is the result of a number of factors all contributing
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Best Practice - Warehousing - Forward-looking logistics for German medical technology manufacturer ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH
Forward-looking logistics for German medical technology manufacturer ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH
In business since 1847, ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH now has over 560 employees developing, producing and distributing medical technology for electrosurgery and waterjet surgery as well as equipment and accessories for hemostasis, tumor removal and minimally invasive operations. ERBE has a global presence with sites in the United States, Brazil, China, France, the Benelux countries, Switzerland, Poland, the United Kingdom, India and Russia. Tübingen, Germany, is its sole production facility, however. For years, ERBE has achieved strong growth both at home and abroad. Exports currently account for some eighty percent of revenue. The
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Adding more value – making more profit - how Logistics Providers are innovating to re-shape their business - Part 1
Third Party Logistics providers have a tough time, for instance in the retail supply chain they’re squeezed in both directions – by the mighty retailers and by the cost conscious importers and manufacturers.
Traditionally such 3PL’s have provided a storage and haulage service – storage prices based on basic charging of handling and storage, and haulage prices based on distance and quantity. This of course is a difficult way to make money – the service becomes a commodity and the barriers of entry are low. Low barriers to entry mean that competition for both new contracts
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Adding more value – making more profit - how Logistics Providers are innovating to re-shape their business - Part 2
Adding more value – making more profit - how Logistics Providers are innovating to re-shape their business - Part 2
Last week we looked at how Third Party Logistics Providers are striving to innovate in order to add more value to the work they do with their clients – this being their big opportunity to break out cut throat business of traditional storage and haulage.
This week we’ll look at how one 3PL is helping an imported of tableware to grow their business.
If you look at a typical importer or retailer what are they good at? - or
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Adding more value – making more profit - how Logistics Providers are innovating to re-shape their business - part 3
Adding more value – making more profit - how Logistics Providers are innovating to re-shape their business - part 3
Over the previous weeks we’ve looked at how Third Party Logistics Providers are striving to innovate in order to add more value to the work they do with their clients – this being their big opportunity to break out cut throat business of traditional storage and haulage. This week we look at the technology behind these operations, and also have a look at a logistics provider who has taken a novel twist to the warehouse rental
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Adding more value – making more profit - how Logistics Providers are innovating to re-shape their business - Part 4
Over the last two weeks we looked at how Third Party Logistics Providers are striving to innovate in order to add more value to the work they do with their clients – this being their big opportunity to break out of the cut throat business of traditional storage and haulage.
This week we’ll look at how one 3PL is helping a maintenance management company to grow their business.
The 3PL and the maintenance management company
Maintenance management is big business, these are the people who work night and day to keep our world going, maintaining and repairing
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Tracking imports from production to receipt – how low cost systems are now delivering the goods
Tracking imports from production to receipt – how low cost systems are now delivering the goods
Lack of visibility across the import / export supply chain leads to lack of control, inefficiency and waste.
This affects importers and distributors – within sectors such as apparel, domestic appliances, industrial equipment, cosmetics and toiletries. For instance a UK company can place production orders on factories say in Bangkok, Bangladesh, China and Lithuania, and then have little visibility of the status of that order in terms of quantity made, in terms of container loading and in terms of despatch and transit.
Problems are further
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Experts in warehouse flooring: The CoGri Group
Experts in warehouse flooring: The CoGri Group
Established since 1989, the CoGri Group are warehouse floor solutions specialists. The Group are a world renowned leader and experts in their industry, particularly in the grinding and measuring of Superflat floors.
Key services include:
Design consultancy
On-site training
QA
Flatness testing
Due diligence surveys
Floor performance testing
Superflat Laser Grinding
Bespoke tolerance grinding
Floor joint repairs
Floor joint stabilising
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11-05-2012
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