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April 2, 2023

How to Ensure Elastic Logistics without Losing Your Workforce

How to Ensure Elastic Logistics without Losing Your Workforce

by Tom K / Friday, 20 March 2020 / Published in Blog

Here are some important tips to implement elastic logistics without compromising your workforce.The relationship between supply and demand in logistics services has changed drastically from its origin to today’s digital age. What began as a supplier-focused field has now become increasingly consumer-centric. Nowadays, supply chains operate in a way where consumer demands define the process flow in the industry. However, the challenge with a consumer-centric system is that they are unpredictable in nature and uncontrollable. Corporations must be flexible to adapt to these changes and will establish a great connection with their customers if they get this right. You will need the right software, hardware, e-commerce, warehouse management, and more to be agile enough to meet customer demands. In other words, you need to ensure elastic logistics without compromising your workforce. Here’s how you can achieve this.

What Is Elastic Logistics?

Elastic logistics is a flexible model where the draw of consumer demand sets up lead times for deliveries and products for replenishment. The goal of elastic logistics is to quickly react before or right after the need arises. Companies that have an elastic logistics system can have a fast go-to-market distribution and clear tracking for all their delivery trucks and products. The goals of this system include:

  • Reducing turnaround times
  • Moving shipments faster
  • Shrinking lead times
  • Meeting the need of the end-customer by delivering their quality product faster

The term itself implies a requirement for companies to be able to make changes easily and quickly to keep up with the demands of the consumer or market. As with all big changes, there is a learning curve. Depending on how your organization is currently set up, this change can be easy, or extremely difficult. But before you panic, here are five change management fundamentals to consider so you can establish elastic logistics without losing your workforce to the advances in technology.

Position the Change as an Opportunity

In the digital age, technology has enabled the opportunity for people to progress in their careers. For your business, your workforce may change but it will not be lost if it can adapt to the changing environment. Whether you employ truck drivers or operations managers, or both and more, technology will allow your team to learn something new about the work they do. They will be able to use and analyze data so they can work more efficiently. As you incorporate technology into your workforce, encourage your employees to use these new strategies with their work. Teach them how to optimize their results by using technology as a tool and not a replacement for their job.

Implement Quickly and Communicate

If your workforce has not yet adopted technology into their work, they may be hesitant about the change. The key to making this a comfortable transition is to implement it quickly. If you implement technology too slowly it allows for wasted time, wasted money, and a waste of resources. Once you upgrade your technology in your logistics setup, start training your employees right away on how to use it in their daily tasks. When they can implement the technology quickly into their daily routine, they will understand it better and faster and have a greater respect for the plan as they grow and expand upon their skills.

Choose Your Tools Wisely

Before choosing the tech tools you want to incorporate into your system, take your time to carefully consider exactly what organizational benefits each tool will provide. You should also consider what employee pain points each tool will resolve. This will help you as you explain to your employees why you are implementing these changes. You can explain to them how these tools can help them work better and eliminate the fear that the technology is about to replace their jobs.

It is also valuable for you as a manager to understand what the most difficult parts are about your employees’ jobs. It will help you understand what additional resources can help them eliminate disruptions and challenges by replacing them with effective solutions.

Have a Highly Organized Plan

Once you have an understanding about which tech tools you need to improve your logistics, it’s time to create a highly organized plan to roll out the system. The goal of this technology is to make your job and your employees’ jobs easier and more efficient, but the implementation process itself can cause delays and frustrations. To resolve this, you should plan out principle dates, distribution levels, training opportunities, and make your expectations very clear.

To help your team organize the resources you need, you can use a project management software. This tool will also help you plan out your expected timelines. With this system you can layout exactly when these new systems will come into effect and when you require your employees to make the transition. Be sure to keep communication lines open and ensure that your employees are aware of these changes far in advance.

Follow Up and Evaluate

Keep in mind that once you implement your elastic logistics, you still have more work to do. You need to plan ahead to evaluate the success of this transition shortly after its launch date and at certain points during the following months. Consider the ways that you evaluate the success of your new plan, what your goals are to gain from it, and what you have actually accomplished.

Choose Lean Supply Solutions to Optimize Your Supply Chain

Elastic logistics is the future, so if you’re looking to turn your lean supply chain up a notch by making your operations consumer-centric, we can help.

At Lean Supply Solutions, we strive to provide a variety of logistics solutions to help our clients get competitive in their markets and meet consumer demands. We serve a variety of clients including distribution-sensitive supply chains, small- to medium-sized organizations, distributors, manufacturers, and retailers. We can help you transition to a customer-centric system that makes your business work better.

If you’re ready to experience long-term savings, customer satisfactions that deliver the best return on investment, lower operating costs, improved focus, high-end technology, and more, our team can help you. Contact us today for more information and to get started.

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