The Logistics and Supply Chain Toolkit: Over 100 Tools for Transport, Warehousing and Inventory Management

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The Logistics and Supply Chain Toolkit provides practical tools for warehouse, inventory and transport managers and students to help them tackle the challenges of logistics and supply chain management. It is full of practical ideas and information to optimise the management of logistics and supply chain processes. The Logistics and Supply Chain Toolkit offers solutions and plans spanning across a variety of sub-disciplines such as warehousing, logistics, supply chain management, inventory and outsourcing. Each toolkit addresses key principles within its area of discipline, providing the reader with a precision approach to be used in complex and sensitive circumstances. The toolkit presents a number of major management tools such as Fortna's Product Flow Smart Design, SMART, DMAIC and Gantt charts. General management, performance management and problem-solving tools have also been included to provide a broader, transferable scope of tools for the reader. Cover Contents List of tools Acknowledgements Introduction 01 Warehouse management tools and guides 1.1 Warehouse audit 1.2 5S or 5C, also known as Gemba Kanri 1.3 Pareto analysis, 80/20 rule, ABC analysis or the vital few analysis 1.4 Choosing an order-picking strategy 1.5 Choosing pick technology 1.6 Cross-docking 1.7 Slotting or item profiling 1.8 Resource planning 1.9 Task interleaving 1.10 Selecting warehouse storage equipment 1.11 Warehouse location numbering 1.12 Selecting warehouse material handling equipment (MHE) 1.13 Warehouse space calculations 1.14 Warehouse location 1.15 Justifying a warehouse management system (WMS) 1.16 Selecting a warehouse management system (WMS) 1.17 How to implement a WMS 1.18 Warehouse maturity scan, by Jeroen van den Berg 1.19 Warehouse risk assessments 1.20 How to ‘green’ your warehouse and save energy 1.21 Hazardous packaging and labelling 1.22 Calculating aisle width for a forklift truck 02 Transport management tools 2.1 Transport audit checklists 2.2 Calculating emissions in freight transport 2.3 Fuel adjustment factor formula 2.4 How to improve fuel efficiency 2.5 Incoterms® 2010 2.6 Load and pallet configuration 2.7 ISO containers, weight volume ratios and pallets 2.8 Calculating road freight transport charges and rates 2.9 Transport management system (TMS) selection process 2.10 Transport problems – matching customer demand with supplier capacity 2.11 Vendor assurance of transport logistics service providers 2.12 Drivers’ hours regulations, EU and United States 2.13 Transportation of hazardous products 2.14 Calculating customs duties 2.15 How to become an Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) 03 Inventory management tools 3.1 Inventory management audit 3.2 ABC Pareto analysis for inventory management 3.3 Ballou’s inventory-throughput curve 3.4 Consignment stock 3.5 Cycle counting or perpetual inventory counting 3.6 Maister’s rule or the square root rule 3.7 Measuring demand variation 3.8 Periodic review inventory management system 3.9 Reorder point inventory management system 3.10 Replenishment order quantities 3.11 Economic order quantity (EOQ), by Geoff Relph 3.12 Combining Pareto with EOQ to enhance group analysis, by Geoff Relph 3.13 K-curve (exchange curve inventory planning), by Geoff Relph 3.14 Safety stock calculation 3.15 Stock counting 3.16 Stock turn 3.17 Vendor-managed inventory (and co-managed inventory) 3.18 Identification and disposal of surplus stock 3.19 Managing spare parts inventory 04 Supply chain management tools 4.1 Supply chain management audit 4.2 Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR®) 4.3 Demand forecasting 4.4 Factory gate pricing (FGP) 4.5 Kanban 4.6 Kraljic matrix 4.7 Maturity models 4.8 Postponement 4.9 Product Flow Path Design, by Fortna 4.10 SCOR® 4.11 Supplier relationships 4.12 Supply chain risk assessment 4.13 Supply chain risk mitigation and contingency planning 4.14 Sustainable sourcing 4.15 Theory of constraints 4.16 Time-based process mapping 4.17 Time compression 4.18 Calculating ordering cost 4.19 How to calculate stockholding cost 4.20 Sales and operations planning (S&OP) 4.21 Omni-channel fulfilment 4.22 Strategic procurement 4.23 Supply chain strategy, by Julian Amey 4.24 3D printing or additive manufacturing ROI 4.25 Supply chain analytics 05 Outsourcing tools 5.1 Outsourcing 5.2 To 4PL© or not to 4PL© 5.3 A risk-based approach to logistics outsourcing 5.4 Supply chain and logistics outsourcing 5.5 Non-disclosure agreement (NDA) 5.6 Outsourcing client questionnaire 5.7 Logistics services provider (LSP) criteria and decision table 06 General management tools 6.1 Critical path analysis 6.2 Decision matrix analysis (DMA) 6.3 DMAIC: a process improvement tool 6.4 Flow charts 6.5 Gantt charts 6.6 Mind maps 6.7 The PDCA tool 6.8 Radar chart 6.9 SWOT analysis 6.10 Team selection – building a successful team, by Belbin 07 Performance management tools 7.1 SMART 7.2 Performance measurement and quality improvement 7.3 Performance measures for freight transport 7.4 Warehouse KPIs 7.5 Balanced Scorecard 7.6 Benchmarking 08 Financial management tools and ratios 8.1 Activity-based costing (ABC) and time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) 8.2 Value tree financial model, by Enrico Camerinelli 8.3 Calculating return on investment and payback period 8.4 An engineered approach to calculate equipment ROI, by Aaron Lininger 8.5 Supply chain financial ratios and metrics 09 Problem-solving tools 9.1 Brainstorming 9.2 Cause and effect analysis, or fishbone or Ishikawa 9.3 The 5 Whys 9.4 The 8-D approach Appendix 1 Useful websites Appendix 2 Imperial/metric conversions Appendix 3 Automatic identification (autoID) Index