50 expert tips on logistics planning and strategy
Categories of Tips
Guidelines for integrating supply chains
Logistics techniques for efficient fulfillment
Including robotic collaboration
Pointers for managing your logistics team and suppliers
Guidelines for enhancing customer satisfaction
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Guidelines for integrating supply chains
1. Establish a flexible, unified purchasing process.
2. Create space for cooperation.
3. Approach your supply chain collaboration with generosity.
4. Establish a center of excellence for your supply chain (CoE).
5. Come up with a sustainable environmental model.
6. Recognize the impact supply chains have on their businesses.
7. Recognize when your supply chain is opening itself up to risk.
8. Become familiar with the feared "worst case scenario."
9. Identify the requirements of your supply chain.
10. Reevaluate your model for demand forecasting.
Logistics techniques for efficient fulfillment
11. Continue to use and improve your inventory management techniques.
12. Reevaluate your 3PL provider's worth.
13. Increase your exposure. This entails using tools to monitor production, orders, and product shipping so that you may better understand what might be harming or facilitating your particular processes.
14. Examine the pick-and-pack procedures used by your warehouse manager.
15. Adaptable processes should be part of your logistics plan.
16. Reconsider your omnichannel fulfillment strategy.
17. Take into account implementing cross docking practices.
18. Compare your costs to the satisfaction of your customers.
19. Clearly state your return policy.
20. Review your product pages and item details.
Automated Collaboration Integration
21. Replace your manual systems with ones that are automated.
22. Inform your business about the advantages of platforms for logistics management software.
23. Consider what your warehouse might look like in the year 2030.
24. Add more valuable pairings to your WMS.
25. Identify the repetitive tasks in your operation to reduce slow production times.
26. With the aid of strategic automation, develop a plan for comprehensive warehouse testing.
27. Only invest in automation that will help you achieve your needs and/or goals.
28. Start utilizing shipping integrations.
29. Take into account automation as a service.
30. Replace your heavy-duty scanners with cheap, portable gadgets.
Pointers for managing your logistics team and suppliers
31. One of the foundational elements of productivity is effective communication with the entire staff.
32. Establish a social conscience that your supply chain can honor.
33. Provide a listening ear.
34. Approach supplier management in a collaborative manner. There are three guidelines to adhere to in order to advance your business toward best-in-class supplier performance management.
1) When choosing suppliers, inquire not only about what they can do for you but also about how feasible it will be to collaborate with them in the long run.
2) Once partnerships have been established, look for ways to increase profitability or decrease total supply chain costs that are advantageous to both parties.
3) Encourage suppliers to improve their performance, but save their application until when there is failure.
35. Prioritize talent development.
36. Improve every aspect of your team.
37. Establish objectives that benefit both you and your suppliers.
38. Ensure your safety by assessing the liability and insurance requirements of your supplier.
39. Offer attainable benchmarks to your team.
40. Provide your suppliers with a "middle ground."
Guidelines for enhancing customer satisfaction
41. Be willing to adapt.
42. Give your clients transparency.
43. Pay attention to customer experience (CX) trends.
44. Provide shipping and product replenishment alerts to customers.
45. Improve customer experience by tightening demand planning strategies.
46. Be kind to your customers and confirm that you can keep your commitments.
47. Do not be reluctant to request feedback.
48. Make an investment in technology that initiates automated customer communication.
49. Spend money on a customized mobility solution.
50. Think about making an investment in augmented reality tools.
