Inventory control at year-end: How to avoid stock-outs or overstocks
As the year draws to a close, logistics managers face a critical period for inventory management. This time is crucial for avoiding stockouts that could disrupt sales flow or the dreaded overstock, ...
Key indicators in your logistics area
The logistics industry generates a vast amount of data daily from processes such as order storage, transportation, picking, and packing, among others. Indeed, companies benefiting from logistics ...
What are the consequences of inefficient logistics?
The growing need for consumers to use e-commerce to manage their purchases posed a significant challenge in logistics for companies, not only because the demand for products increased through this ...
Ways to improve the logistics last mile
The advancement of digitalization in the business world has posed a new challenge for companies seeking to find ways to improve the logistics last mile to provide greater efficiency in the delivery ...
Buyer persona in the logistics sector: How to define it?
In recent years, the logistics industry has begun to encourage much more involved participation in the supply chain, aimed at offering a better product delivery service to the customer. Part of that ...
Consultative selling in logistics: Understanding customer needs
The logistics industry constantly faces various challenges that make companies in the sector have to seek innovation to stay in the race, providing the best delivery service to the customer. The ...
Traceability in logistics. Why is it important?
Traceability in logistics is like having a radar of the product and it has to do with customers since they are the ones who drive it the most. Knowing where a product is in the shipment ensures that ...
Outsourcing logistics services: Advantages and disadvantages
Nowadays, many companies are outsourcing their logistics services to take advantage of the cost-saving advantages it provides. Even so, for outsourcing to be effective in logistics, it must be ...
Main communication channels in the logistics industry
The transportation sector in the logistics industry faces sustained and unprecedented digital disruption as new technologies emerge, rapidly evolving customer preferences, and new competitors ...
The importance of maintenance in your logistics company
Both in everyday life and the business world, for things to work properly, we must provide them with regular maintenance. We all know how delays in any part of the supply chain can cause major ...
Impact of technology on logistics
The evolution of logistics technology is pushing boundaries and changing the way the world does business. Today, we are used to everything being online and at our fingertips for immediate access. For ...
Main problems in product distribution logistics
The product distribution logistics market is in constant transformation at a global level. It is for this reason that companies currently face different problems that represent real challenges to ...
The role of marketing in the logistics industry
Marketing is an activity that crosses all companies, in all industries, and in the business world, it can be the area that makes the difference. The role of the marketing department is to generate ...
Advantages of planning in logistics
Planning plays a very important role in supply logistics, as companies must procure raw materials for manufacturing well in advance according to consumer demand.
Inventory management problems. Where do we start?
Managing inventories or stocks is not an easy task, since many times the logistics area does not manage to have sufficient visibility of possible problems in inventory management, which may be ...
Five digital tools that every logistics company must have
Nowadays, it is known that all logistics companies should use digital tools to improve their performance and growth, since, in the age of technology, they are extremely important. Do you know what ...
Layouts: Strategic planning in the metalworking industry
In general terms, strategic planning is the process of documenting and establishing the direction of a company, evaluating where it is and where it is going. The strategic plan helps you record the ...
Picking process: main problems
In logistics, the picking process is responsible for picking up packaged units or sets from a higher packaging unit that contains more units than those extracted. We can speak of unit picking when ...