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February 17, 2023 By admin

Why is logistic visibility important?

In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing business environment, logistic visibility has become critical for businesses to succeed. This refers to the ability of businesses to track and monitor their goods as they move through the supply chain, from the manufacturer to the end customer. This level of transparency not only enhances the customer experience, but also provides businesses with the insights they need to optimize their operations and make informed decisions.

 

Here are some key reasons why logistic visibility is critical for businesses to succeed:

 

  • Improved Customer Experience: With logistic visibility, businesses can provide their customers with real-time updates on the status of their orders, including tracking information and delivery times. This level of transparency can help build customer trust and loyalty, as it enables them to make informed decisions and plan accordingly. In addition, it can help reduce customer service inquiries, as customers are able to track their own orders.
  • Enhanced Efficiency: By having real-time access to logistics data, businesses can make better decisions about inventory management, production planning, and transportation. This helps them to optimize their operations, reduce waste, and improve efficiency, ultimately leading to cost savings and higher profits. For example, if a business can see that there are delays in shipping, they can adjust their production schedule or reroute shipments to ensure that they meet customer demand.
  • Supply Chain Resilience: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of supply chain resilience. Businesses that have a clear view of their supply chain can quickly identify potential disruptions and take proactive steps to mitigate them. This might involve sourcing from different suppliers, changing transportation routes, or increasing inventory levels. By having the ability to quickly respond to disruptions, businesses can maintain continuity of operations and minimize the impact on customers.
  • Improved Collaboration: Logistic visibility also facilitates better collaboration between businesses and their supply chain partners. By sharing data and insights, businesses can work together to identify and address inefficiencies and improve overall supply chain performance. This can lead to better relationships, increased trust, and ultimately, a more competitive and profitable supply chain.

In conclusion, logistic visibility is critical for businesses to succeed in today’s fast-paced and competitive environment. It provides businesses with the data and insights they need to make informed decisions, optimize their operations, and improve customer satisfaction. By investing in logistic visibility, businesses can improve their bottom line and ensure long-term success

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LOGISTICSVISIBILITYWAREHOUSE
January 12, 2023 By admin

Warehouse Operations efficiency – Visibility & Measurement

3PL or Third Party Logistics provides first-class service to its clients facing challenges at Warehouse operations in areas such as:

  1. Pick to staging time – Which makes the estimation of manpower requirement during the peaking weeks illogical and difficult.
  2. Staging, value add or segregation time – Once the order is picked and staged, the time the dock is occupied is not visible on a real time basis. Dock utility and allocation becomes more people driven rather than being process driven
  3. Loading team utilization – with the volumes that moves through the warehouse, the efficiency of the loading team is not visible with real time data. This delays the decision making for increasing or reducing the required numbers.
  4. Truck allocation and logical utilization – The order to truck allocation is done primarily by the transport desk and with limited visibility of utilization of the trucks which are on a dedicated basis. This leads into mismatch of uniform utilization of vehicle and unnecessary market vehicles taken.

After analysing many warehouse operations, LogiKal.ai found that certain tasks are needed to evaluate and improve efficiency, but the data points were absent in the WMS.

Tasks need to be measured for increased productivity, which was never part of the process improvement.

There was clear need for a Logistics Efficiency Tool, that could provide detailed auditable insight into these data points to enhance productivity.

Solution

After identifying the 3PL’s challenges, LogiKal.ai developed a mobile-based solution, that allows the creation and sequencing of tasks based on rules to systemize and enforce the 3PL’s processes.

Additionally, employees could stay connected, collaborate and communicate while performing tasks in the warehouse. The mobile application is also designed to collect and process data in real-time. 

Results

With LogiKal.ai mobile application, every task which is a challenge at the warehouse will get tracked, and problem areas can be identified and improved. Auditable visibility of the following additional data points are now generated at the swipe of the mobile application.

  1. Order pick completion time
  2. Staging and value add time with the result of dock utilization
  3. Truck advance visibility and scheduling based on the order and docks
  4. Truck loading TAT at each dock

These data points are complemented with the tracking of the shipment to delivery and the Receiving TAT at the consignee point.

With the visibility estimating the manpower for various sales pattern could be achieved leading into a gain into efficiency and saving the cost in terms of manpower deployment.

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