10 Rules for Supply Chain & Logistics Optimization

July 18, 2017

Companies have made tremendous strides in automating transaction processing and data capture related to supply chain and logistics operations. While these innovations have reduced cost by reducing manual effort, their greatest impact is yet to come. They are the essential enablers for optimizing supply chain and logistics decisions. Supply chain and logistics optimization are neither easy nor cheap but it is the biggest opportunity for most companies to significantly reduce their cost and improve their performance. For most supply chain and logistics operations, there is an opportunity to reduce cost by 10% to 40% by making better decisions. Over more than 30 years of developing and implementing supply chain and logistics technology, I have found the following 10 rules to be essential requirements for success.

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Caterpillar Parts Department

In Parts Distribution, we know firsthand that logistics can either make or break a company. It can also build a legend. For more than 75 years, we have designed and implemented the world-class logistics solutions that have helped make Caterpillar Inc. a legend. We pioneered the field of logistics by building Caterpillar’s extensive global logistics infrastructure and, along the way, we helped build the field of supply chain management, developing proven processes and systems designed to maximize business performance

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