Supply Chain and Logistics Blog
How to Get the Benefit of GDPR for Your Supply Chain
The General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR is often seen as a constraint on enterprises, rather than an opportunity. Yet much of what it obliges enterprises to do can be leveraged for their advantage. For supply chains, higher efficiency, lower costs, and better...
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The 7 Principles of Warehouse and Distribution Centre Design
Warehouse and distribution centre (DC) design is a fascinating and absorbing topic, but alas, is often misunderstood. Regrettably, few people fully understand the discipline of warehouse design and because of this, literally thousands of facilities are...
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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy
If you have not yet tackled the question of ethics in procurement, now is a great time to start. It does not matter whether you are a procurement professional, internal customer, external customer, senior executive, or supplier. Directly or indirectly, you are...
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Cost To Serve – A Smarter Way to Improved Supply Chain Profitability
Supply chains are complex entities. Even if you simplify your product range and your upstream suppliers, you still have to deal with the ramifications of diverse customers, their expectations, their location and the logistics needed to meet their requirements. While...
read moreWhy Do You Do…..What You Do?
I think anyone in business is used to be asked, "What do You do"? It's often a difficult question for me to answer, because 'what' I do is very much influenced by 'why' I do it. If you haven't watched the Simon Sinek Video 'Start with Why' I would recommend you do....
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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics
Supply Chain KPIs are Essential - The Right Ones! The information on this page WILL help you get it right. Many people get really confused about KPIs or Key Performance Indicators in Logistics and Supply Chain operations. Which ones to use?... How many to use?...
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How Good is YOUR Supply Chain
There are 4 levels of Supply Chain performance. Which one is yours?
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6 Supply Chain Trends from 2017 and their Ongoing Progress
Call it a cop-out if you like, but predicting which logistics and supply chain trends will make a difference to businesses in any given year has become notoriously difficult, given the speed at which technology in particular, can suddenly disrupt the way things are...
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5 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management
If you were to tell me that your company had never looked at its supply chain costs and sought to deliver reductions, I would be mightily surprised. On the other hand, if you told me your company hasn't been able to sustain any progress in supply chain cost...
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Supply Chain Profitability
How many of your products and customers are really profitable? You might be shocked. Check out this short video. So let me ask you a question, do you think all of your customers and products are profitable? I’m not so sure. Hi, I’m Rob O’Byrne from Logistics...
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