Outbound logistics: keys to efficient distribution
September 21, 2022Outbound logistics is a supply chain operation responsible for ensuring the delivery of finished products to end customers or raw materials to production centers.
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Outbound logistics is a supply chain operation responsible for ensuring the delivery of finished products to end customers or raw materials to production centers.
A high-bay warehouse is a logistics facility where the storage systems reach a minimum height of approximately 40' and a maximum of over 130'.
With ship-to-store, suppliers send orders from their central warehouses or distribution centers to the physical stores closest to customers so that they can pick them up in a short window of time.
An incline conveyor is designed to move goods safely and automatically between two points on different levels in a warehouse.
Order consolidation is a process that consists of grouping and sorting the products that make up different orders to distribute them quickly and without errors.
The logistics chain connects suppliers, manufacturers, logistics providers, and end customers with the aim of minimizing costs and ensuring the quality of the product or service.
OTIF is a supply chain KPI that assesses a supplier’s delivery processes, i.e., its ability to ship products in the quantities and by the deadline set with the customer.
One of the aims of order fulfillment technology — whether in automated or manually run warehouses — is to reduce picking error rates.