Supply Chain and Logistics Blog
Supply Chain Innovation: The Next 15 Years
Supply chains everywhere are under immense pressure. Driven by globalisation and customers whose power to dictate to suppliers is ever greater, supply chains in every sector and niche are becoming more complex and subject to greater degrees of risk and volatility. At...
read moreThe Future of Retail Supply Chain: What’s in Store?
The world of retail has never seen the degree of change that’s being experienced today. Through the rapid growth of digital technology, consumers have acquired the power to demand what they want, not only when, but where they want it. Retailers have little choice but...
read moreHow well is your Supply Chain doing in the Year of the Monkey?
“The Year of the Monkey hasn’t started well Rob”. Michael, the Supply Chain Manager, was certainly looking a bit stressed. Sales were down, which was increasing their cost per case through the Supply Chain and supplier performance issues were causing inventory...
read moreNear Death & Your Supply Chain
I really thought I might die. My face mask was filling with water and needed to be constantly cleared. And the physical effort required to keep myself off the coral was sapping my energy fast. Real fast… My heart was pounding through my chest. Over 50 and over...
read moreHow Omni-channel Commerce is Shaking up the Supply Chain
A couple of years ago, speculation was fierce as to whether or not ecommerce and especially the growing trend in mobile shopping (that is, shopping online via a mobile device) would spell the death knell for brick-and-mortar stores. As things have panned...
read moreHow to Attain Quick Wins in Supply Chain Cost Reduction Using Lean
Supply chain cost reduction is not something to be tackled as a project. After all, a project has a finite lifespan. When a project is completed, nothing else happens until another project is begun. In the meantime the supply chain continues to change and evolve,...
read more4 Tips to Reduce Supply Chain Costs Without Sacrificing Service
It’s a classical trade-off in the world of logistics—the need to keep supply chain costs at a minimum while maintaining the levels of service needed to keep your customers loyal. Sometimes it seems there will be no end to the requirement to do more with less. So how...
read more4 Common Supply Chain Cost Blowouts
Whatever your supply chain role might be, monitoring and controlling costs is almost certain to be an important area of responsibility for you. However, when you’re busy with the day-to-day activities of keeping materials moving and fulfilling customer orders, it’s...
read more3 Ways Supply Chain Companies’ Cost Reduction Plans Go Bad
If you’ve been working with supply chain companies for any length of time, you’ll know how important it is to control operational costs. On occasion though, some supply chain companies’ cost reduction efforts get taken too far, especially when ambitious initiatives...
read moreYour Supply Chain can’t tell you when it’s SICK
Is your Supply Chain Sick? If only your Supply Chain could talk… I recently shared some tips with you on a Supply Chain Health Check that would get you off to a great start for the Year. It was prompted by my own ‘Health Check’! That post is here. But it made me...
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