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Business Intelligence, Data Analytics and Decision Support Systems for the logistics sector.
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🎙️Got a spare 4 minutes?

Have a listen to the Logistics Business Weekly Bulletin.

Covering everything from moving 349 tonne boulders to endangered Bongo antelopes & 2.5km long trains traversing the Sahara desert

All in a day's work for #logistics!
#SupplyChain

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Logistics Bulletin Week 50, 2025 | Logistics Business Bulletin
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December 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Tariffs...Thrust into the limelight in 2025
#Logistics #SupplyChain #ecommerce #Postal #Trade
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#logistics #ecommerce #supplychain #postal | The Information Factory
Tariffs...Thrust into the limelight in 2025. Kate Muth talks all things tariff related with Ian Kerr on The Postal Hub podcast. #Logistics #ecommerce #SupplyChain #Postal
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December 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Happy Christmas & best wishes for 2026
Father Christmas and reindeer flying over houses
December 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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😤Struggling to get a unified view of your direct & indirect costs?
🤔Unsure what’s driving your costs, or how to control them?
📈Ready to grow revenue & expand margins?

LogiCAT - our costing allocation tool, could be what you're looking for
#Logistics #DataAnalytics
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LogiCAT | The Information Factory
Are you... 😤 Struggling to get a unified view of your direct and indirect costs? 🤔 Unsure what’s driving your costs—or how to control them? 📈 Ready to grow revenue and expand your margins? LogiCAT -...
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December 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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December is a busy month - especially in logistics. Here are some tips, gathered from our team, to help manage your workload.
#TimeManagement #Logistics #Workflow #Teamwork #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #WorkLifeBalance
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#workload #timemanagement #teamwork | The Information Factory
December is a busy month...    It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the number of tasks we have to complete and crazy year end deadlines rushing towards us at the speed of light.     At times like this we...
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December 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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When logistics providers operate with fine margins, clear oversight on end-to-end costs isn't just important - it's essential to business survival.
#Logistics #SupplyChain #ecommerce #DataAnalytics #ABCCosting
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#logistics #postal #supplychain #dataanalytics | The Information Factory
The logistics industry operates on fine margins and faces multiple challenges that erode profitability: supply chain disruptions, labour shortages, rising fuel costs, increased regulatory compliance, ...
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December 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Delighted to be a sponsor of the 2025 APPU business forum.
#Postal #Logistics #DigitalTransformation
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#appu #strategictransformation #digitaltransformation #businessstrategy | The Information Factory
The APPU Bureau Business Forum is underway and our onsite team of Manale Azar and Viktoria Feketeova are proudly showcasing LogiCAT our new costing allocation tool for the Postal sector. But first a...
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December 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Logistics is complex. Data brings order and clarity.
#Logistics #SupplyChain #DataAnalytics #Data #PredictiveAnalytics
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Logistics is a complex industry. At every stage of the process, from transport, warehousing, customs clearance and on to final mile delivery there’s a lot of moving parts to deal with in order to cont...
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December 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Analysing costs is boring. Right?
Wrong...
#Logistics #SupplyChain #DataAnalytics #ABCCosting #Costing
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#logistics #supplychain #postal #dataanalytics | The Information Factory
Analysing costs is boring, right? It’s just something that the finance team have to do in order to know how revenue is spent and to balance the books? We beg to differ. Any business, particularly on...
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December 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Delighted to be both a sponsor and attendee at the Asia Pacific Postal Union's Postal Business Forum in Bangkok, Thailand (December 1 - 4)
#Postal #Logistics #DigitalTransformation #Innovation
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#postal #lastmiledelivery #logistics #innovation #digitaltransformation | The Information Factory
Here's just some of the topics due to be discussed at the APPU Bureau's Postal Business Forum in Bangkok, Thailand: 🔮 Reimagining the future with innovation and digital evolution. 🤖 Digital transitio...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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1 Struggling for a unified view of direct & indirect costs?
2 Unsure what’s driving costs & how to control them?
3 Ready to grow revenue & expand margins?
..You'll want to know more about LogiCAT - our costing allocation tool
#Logistics #ParcelPostExpo #DataAnalytics
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#logistics #parcelpostexpo #postal #ecommerce | The Information Factory
📦 If your answer is YES to any or all of these questions... 1. Are you struggling to get a unified view of your direct and indirect costs? 2. Unsure what’s driving your costs—or how to control them? 3...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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1. Need more visibility on your direct & indirect costs?
2. Want to use accurate costing data to improve pricing effectiveness, manage loss making customers & optimise your network?
3. Going to #ParcelPostExpo?

Visit us at stand 10.135
#Logistics #Ecommerce #Postal
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#parcelpostexpo #ppe25 #logistics #ecommerce #postal | The Information Factory
📦 Do you need more visibility on your direct and indirect costs drilled down to shipment and piece level? And would you like to use accurate costing data to improve pricing effectiveness, manage loss...
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October 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
#AdaLovelaceDay #STEM #Science #Technology #Engineering #Maths
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#adalovelaceday #stem #science #technology #ada25 | The Information Factory
🖥️ Happy Ada Lovelace Day!    Tuesday, October 14 2024 is Ada Lovelace day. A time to remember the mathematical and computer programming prowess of Ada Lovelace – before computers had been invented. A...
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October 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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🌐 Celebrating the people who help make the world go round.
#WorldPostDay #PostForPeople #Logistics #Postal

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#postforpeople #worldpostday #postal #logistics | The Information Factory
We began preparing our own article to recognise World Post Day. But then we saw what Ian Kerr of The Postal Hub had written and linked to a feature by the POAAL. The POAAL tell the story of Jenny P...
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October 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Calling parcel, express, road haulage, 3PL, freight forwarder, logistics and postal operators - take part in our survey on transport management systems.
#Logistics #SupplyChain #TransportManagementSystem #TMS

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TMS Survey 2025 | The Information Factory
📦 Calling parcel, express, road haulage, 3PL, freight forwarder, logistics and postal operators...We'd value your thoughts and opinions on transport management systems (TMS). Take our 3 minute survey...
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October 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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What do you think of the reporting & analytics feature of TMS systems? Take part in our survey, let us know what you think - and enter our prize draw.
#Logistics #SupplyChain #Transportation #TMS
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#logistics #supplychain #transportmanagementsystem | The Information Factory
What do you think of transport management system (TMS)? Particularly their reporting and analytics capabilities? If you work at a parcel, express, road haulage, 3PL, freight forwarder, logistics or p...
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October 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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There's a powerful tool that the logistics industry possesses in spades: Data.
By harnessing detailed end-to-end cost data, operators can make more informed decisions and effectively price for profit.
#Logistics #SupplyChain #ecommerce #DataAnalytics
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#logistics #supplychain #dataanalytics #ecommerce | The Information Factory
The logistics industry operates on fine margins and faces multiple challenges that erode profitability: supply chain disruptions, labour shortages, rising fuel costs, increased regulatory compliance, ...
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September 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Are you a parcel or postal operator struggling to get a unified view of your direct and indirect costs? Unsure of what's driving your costs & how to control them?
And ready to grow revenue and expand your margins?
#Logistics #ecommerce #ParcelPostExpo #DataAnalytics
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#parcelpostexpo #logistics #postal #ecommerce | The Information Factory
📦 Are you a parcel or postal operator struggling to get a unified view of your direct and indirect costs? Unsure of what's driving your costs and how to control them? 💲 And ready to grow revenue and ...
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September 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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See you at #ParcelPostExpo in Amsterdam?
Delighted to be exhibiting at this major parcel & postal event. Looking forward to joining +200 exhibitors, meeting some of the 1,000s of visitors & discussing the latest industry trends.
#Logistics #DataAnalytics #ecommerce
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#parcelpostexpo #logistics #postal #ecommerce #dataanalytics | The Information Factory
Are you attending Parcel+Post Expo 2025 in Amsterdam? If you are - we hope to see you there. The Information Factory is delighted to be exhibiting again at this major parcel and postal event. We're ...
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September 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Take 3 minutes out of your working day and have a listen 🎧
Thanks to @sheenapunkrocker.bsky.social for reminding our CEO of this song!
#FridayFeeling #FridayVibes #FridayMotivation

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🎧 What's on your playlist? At The Information Factory there's a regular feature in our internal newsletter where we ask a team member for a top 10 summary of songs on their playlist - whether that's ...
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September 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Does your sales team receive ad hoc requests to quote on shipment moves that don't fit your standard customer contracts?
#Logistics #Pricing #DataAnalytics #WorkflowAutomation
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Spot Rate Pricing - The Information Factory | The Information Factory
Does your sales team receive ad hoc requests to quote on shipment moves that don't fit your standard customer contracts? Would these requests represent lucrative incremental revenue? If only there w...
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September 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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People of The Information Factory #14
#Teamwork #EmployeeEngagement #CareerDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #Logistics
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#careerdevelopment #softwaredevelopment #database #logistics #employeeengagement #dataanalytics #teamwork | The Information Factory
Introducing Rene Kana, winter skier, summer cyclist, and database specialist. “At university I studied Mathematics with an IT option for IT – an emerging field at the time, and I was curious about th...
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September 2, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Did you know...?

🌳 3 billion trees were required to produce ecommerce packaging (2021)
⏱️ This equates to 95 trees chopped down every second
📦 The packaging could wrap around the world 1,000 times
#ecommerce #logistics #sustainability
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#ecommerce #logistics #packaging #sustainability | The Information Factory
Did you know...? 🌳 3 billion trees were required to produce ecommerce packaging (2021). ⏱️ This equates to 95 trees being chopped down every second. 🇩🇪 These trees would cover an area roughly the siz...
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August 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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The power of data visualisation
#dataviz #datavisualisation #data
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#datavisualisation #dataviz #data | The Information Factory
Which of these two airline boarding cards works best for you? Here’s 3 reasons why we think the ‘Lean’ card is better at communicating the message.   1. Important information is prioritised. Secondar...
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August 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Adapting to disruption.
#logistics #ecommerce
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#logistics #ecommerce | The Information Factory
The US re-imposes de minimis restrictions. And while there are disruptions, the logistics sector again demonstrates its ability to adapt. See details in Transport Intelligence - the final paragraph ...
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August 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM