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read moreChanging Your Perspective to Measure Supply Chain Performance
Why measure the performance of a supply chain? Because a supply chain is increasingly the sole competitive differentiator for an enterprise, and measuring its performance helps to improve it and detect and solve any problems. However, traditional enterprise measures...
read moreHow to Boost Your Supply Chain Knowledge Beyond Certification
Whatever career you pursue, whatever your speciality, role, or discipline, whatever industry you work in, whatever degrees or certificates you hold, it's an undeniable truth that you never, ever stop learning. However there can come a point where you've attended so...
read more6 Ways Smart Companies Improve Supply Chain Education for Employees
Many companies today, are struggling with talent development and as a result, suffer needless staff turnover and engagement issues. The few that get it right however, seem to share a set of common values and principles regarding the professional development of their...
read more5 Ways Attending Conferences can Boost Supply Chain Careers
What's your opinion of attending conferences, seminars, and industry workshops? Do you see them as a networking opportunity, a day out at the company's expense, a valuable learning opportunity, or something to be endured because your boss thinks you should attend? The...
read moreThe Suppliers’ View of Logistics Outsourcing
There is sometimes a temptation to think of logistics outsourcing suppliers as black boxes - just entities to which cartons, goods, pallets and containers can be handed off for delivery at the other end of the logistics chain. If this stage of the supply chain is...
read moreThe Future of Logistics Outsourcing
For the future of logistics outsourcing, there are two possibilities: either guess it, or invent it. The choice for any given organisation depends on the strategic importance it attaches to its logistics. However, with the positioning of the supply chain overall as...
read moreCost to Serve: Making the Link
Understanding supply chain cost dynamics can help companies recognise their profitable customers. Many companies fail to recognise the true profitability of their customers and product/service mix. Traditional reporting methods aggregate revenues and costs to...
read moreSupply Chain Education: Complementing Theory with Pragmatism
Does the following scenario sound familiar to you? Your company hires a graduate with exemplary credentials, straight out of University. He or she has spent perhaps four to five years gaining a supply chain education, starting even before leaving high school, because...
read moreLogistics Bureau signs formal MOU with Thai University
Rob O’Byrne the founder and Group Managing Director of Logistics Bureau today signed a formal Memorandum Of Understanding with Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University in Bangkok. The MOU is intended to foster the sharing and exchange of research,...
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