Supply Chain and Logistics Blog
Why SMEs May Lead a Shift Away from China Sourcing
The Coronavirus pandemic has raised concerns over China sourcing, accelerating the trend in businesses around the world seeking secondary sourcing countries. Heading the list of alternative manufacturing hubs are Vietnam, India, Thailand, and Mexico. Small businesses...
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KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) for Supply Chain and Logistics – Keep it Simple
We get a lot of questions relating to KPIs than anything else on this blog and on our YouTube channel so here are some useful tips for that and hopefully you find this useful for your supply chain KPIs preparation. Do not have too many Do not go overboard to a...
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Insource or Outsource Your Warehousing: What Makes Most Sense?
Determining whether your supply chain business should retain an internal warehouse operation or outsource to a 3PL is not a decision to take lightly. Like any supply chain strategy, there are advantages and drawbacks to both insourced and outsourced warehouse models....
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Distribution Center & Warehouse Operations Benchmarking with John Monck
What is this all about? “It’s an exciting tool that Logistics Bureau have to look at benchmarking warehouses or DC, so specifically for your warehouse…” - John Monck, Logistics Bureau’s Consulting Manager Get to know more about Benchmarking Distribution...
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Who’s Using Blockchain in 2020, and How?
While there is still some question as to whether blockchain technology can live up to the hype it has generated, it is making inroads into the supply chain environment. The diamond and gold, tea and coffee, beverage, food, and automotive industries all have...
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How to Get a Job in Supply Chain in another Country
Getting a job overseas and getting a job in supply chain, this is what Naveed has done, he is our young and talented Business Analyst in Logistics Bureau. It’s basically hitting two birds in one stone for this guy! How did he do it and how could you be successful too...
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Cost to Serve Case Study that was Off the Scale! – with Steven Thacker
What are the three things that people get wrong with their supply chains? 1. Focusing on the wrong things 2. Understanding margins in your product 3. Not setting the bar high enough for cost reduction planning With us is Steven Thacker, Rob’s fellow director in...
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Freight Procurement Tips with Trent Morris
WHAT ROLE CAN PROCUREMENT PLAY ON FREIGHT EXPENDITURE? "A better way, in my opinion, of approaching it is to simply define what you actually want them to give you" – Trent Morris Let us listen to our favorite purchasing and procurement consultant, Trent...
read moreWhat to Focus on First – COST to SERVE – Supply Chain – Logistics
Here’s a brief review on our webinar which mainly tackles the importance of Cost to Serve in the Supply Chain and the understanding of the cost in a detailed level of servicing different types of customers and products. Related articles on this topic...
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Circular Supply Chains with Deborah Dull – Supply Chain Sustainability
Get to know about Circular Supply Chain— the definition, examples and more, especially that Supply Chain sustainability is quite very high on Corporate Agendas around the World. Watch the video below: Best Regards, Rob O’Byrne...
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