Fill Rate: Importance and strategies to improve the indicator
The Fill Rate indicator is an important metric in distribution logistics and has a few different types of measurement that can generate […]
OTIF – Measure to improve service
Introduction The OTIF (On-Time In-Full) is an important indicator used to measure the level of service of numerous companies, in different industries […]
How to know how serious the rupture is for your business?
The calculation of the size of the safety stock that a company must have is built from the balance of the […]
How to size the safety stock?
A couple of years ago I wrote a post about the five functions of inventories, which is the logistics function that I most identify with. […]
Free delivery within 1 day? Amazon Prime's new service goal
Amazon announced at the end of the first quarter of 2019 that it intends to improve the Prime delivery service level to 1 […]
Monitoring service level indicators
Service level indicators are a practical way of visualizing the effectiveness of your logistics operation from the […]
Increased Market Place and the consequences for Logistics
Last week, when they released the results for the first quarter of 2017, Lojas Americanas and B2W announced that they intend to change […]
Integrated Supply Chain Management - Marketing Benefits
In addition to the potential for reducing costs for companies involved in supply chain integration (SCM), some authors (KAMPSTRA et al., […]
The impact of inventory management on costs and service level
The importance of inventory management in national industries is considerably neglected in various economic sectors. Knowing when is the best time […]
Benchmarking: the moment to look outside
Many managers in the logistics area do not have the visibility of what is happening in terms of good practices in costs and […]
Customer Segmentation: Divide and Conquer
In the corporate universe, we see the consolidation of some maxims that, simple as they may seem, imply profound transformations in organizations and […]
