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Logistics For Your Business

Strategy Driven

Setting up your website, working on getting finances sorted, they are all part and parcel of a startup too. Many people get logistics confused with supply-chain. All of the logistics need to be worked out and in play pretty early on in your business planning. It is a part of it, but the two terms aren’t interchangeable.

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How the Rapid Growth of Ecommerce Is Driving Changes in Logistics and Transportation Management

Strategy Driven

With the customers demanding faster deliveries, field service businesses are now looking to develop a more time-definite supply chain. However, for e-commerce businesses, shipping parcels to different locations safely and punctually requires complex planning.

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What to Do When Each Department Uses Different Words to Describe the Same Thing

Harvard Business Review

The respective systems measured market share at different places in the overall supply chain — marketing at the retail outlet and logistics at the public warehouse. Since developing new language is part and parcel to innovation, you must not interfere with the process. Eventually a relative newcomer discovered the problem.

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

This is typical of the stage of Big Bang Disruption we refer to as “Entropy,” when the supply chain supporting products and services displaced by a disruptive innovation collapse into a kind of economic black hole. Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy.

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5 Ways To Improve Your Delivery Service

Strategy Driven

This way, if something goes wrong or a parcel gets lost, you know where the problem is. The final part of your supply chain solutions should be a reliable delivery provider. You should track every single parcel that leaves your warehouse, and know where it is at all times. Use GPS and telematics.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role. Data compiled from the network surveys I give my participants shows that we are still not using networks to our best advantage.

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Explain Your New Strategy By Emphasizing What It Isn’t

Harvard Business Review

Then ask the student to “compare and contrast” the vacuum salesman’s approach with a peace negotiator’s tactic of asking for a small and relatively unimportant parcel of land before requesting a large payment of reparations.