Image Enabling The Supply Chain

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  Your Business You manufacture great products or source great products from the far east and then you ship them to Retailers such as Walmart, Kohls, Home Depot, Lowes, Best Buy etc. and sell your product through them You are essentially paying rent to one or many of these retailers to carry your product on their shelves and make them available for shoppers that come to their stores, so the consumers or shoppers can buy them You ship your product to the Retailers, sometimes you will pay for the carrier and ship your product to the Retailer or sometimes or actually most of the times the Retailer will pick up the product by sending their own transportation company/Carrier from your warehouse as they can take advantage of the economies of scale and get a better transportation pricing, then they will process your product through their Supply chain, then get your product on their shelves and sell them. Meanwhile you will submit your invoice and they will pay your invoice, typically afte...

  Your Business You are a warehouse manager that ships high value consumer products. The following are some examples Flat screen televisions Washer Dryer Refrigerator Your delivery guys might even make delivery of these products at the buyer’s homes The manufacturer might also give you specific delivery and assembly instructions, it is very important to follow those steps because if any mistake is made, the customer will not be able to get benefits from the warranty offered by the manufacturer – so you have to be extremely careful here You might also ship these products to Retailers. You might also ship these products direct to customers As these are very expensive SKUs and sometimes fragile, so a lot of care needs to be taken while transporting these products As a warehouse manager, you are responsible for the following The warehouse manager leads and coordinates all aspects of the distribution process within the Supply Chain network. Leads site’s planning, execution, and communic...

  Your Business Manufacture, Assemble and Ship all these heavy industrial products on time and to the right place in perfect condition so the deployment of these heavy industrial products can be done smoothly as part of construction or starting up new facilities that is already going on If you really think about it, these are products that are purchased out of somebody’s capital projects and budgets. So somebody is investing big time building large buildings or gas stations or making automotive products that consumers need to buy, or a Distribution Center is going live or for example hospitals, if these beds don’t reach on time to hospitals, people cannot get treated, people might even die So it is very important as a Warehouse Manager you do your part of the job thoroughly and deliver them on time. Obviously not only do the job and also keep proof that you did your job right to show it to other parties in the Supply Chain So when your products arrive on time, the other resources, ...

  Your Business You distribute food products, which could fall under Dry, Produce or Frozen categories You distribute alcohol products You distribute pharma products While doing this you often run into OSD issues, Overage, Shortages and Damages Overages – You shipped more than ordered, which could result in non-compliance chargeback Shortages – You shipped less than what was ordered, which could result in non-compliance chargeback Damages – Your products arrived damaged, which would result in a rejected load or a damage claim While shipping food products it is also very important to clean the trailers thoroughly in order to comply with FDA requirements, I had a customer once they would write lines and lines of cleanliness description in the system after washing their trailers thoroughly, so just in case something happens, they can go back to their customer and show them how well they have been cleaning the trailers Another challenge while shipping produce or frozen items is that, y...