Key Factors to Consider When Planning and Designing Warehouses
Planning a Warehouse Network and Design: Key Factors to Consider In this post, I’d like to talk about the key factors that will impact on the optimum facility network and design required to meet your warehousing or storage requirements. Since I first...
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Book Summary from Supply Chain Secrets
Do you love reading business books? But you never seem to have the time. I have a solution for you! Have you ever read Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People? Oh, Not yet? Someone from the team has read it and turned it into about six-page summary for...
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How many Distribution Centre Are There in Your Network?
It's really important to understand the cost impacts of the number of distribution centres in your distribution network to make it more cost effective. In this video, you'll find some of the cost elements to think about. Subscribe to our Youtube Channel Best...
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Warehouse Location Decisions Made Easy
Where should your Distribution Centre be located? Deciding where to put your future Warehouse can really be challenging. But, worry no more. I'll share with you the "core principles" in finding the best location for your Distribution Centre. Subscribe...
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Saving Supply Chain Costs | The Secret Sauce
Understanding your Supply Chain Cost to Serve is the Secret sauce in Supply Chain Management. Once you understand your cost to serve you can start to reduce costs! Being able to understand the principles of cost to serve and apply them, will make you a Supply Chain...
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What Is Supply Chain Management?
Supply Chain is all about getting the right product in the right place at the right time + right quality and right cost. Supply Chain is all around us. In this video, I’ll show you the examples of applied supply chain management in real-life examples. Watch ’til the...
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Get Your Facts Right
This article, written by Mal Walker, Manager at Logistics Bureau, in the January/February 2019 issue of MHD Supply Chain Solutions. People often ask me: what is the secret to distribution centre (DC) design? I’m not sure that I have a secret to share,...
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3 Supply Chain Trends to Keep on Your 2019 Radar
3 Supply Chain Trends to Track in 2019 We’ve had a busy final quarter of 2018 here at Logistics Bureau, so it was somewhat later in the year than usual when I got to thinking about what’s been going on in the supply chain world at large, and which...
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Blockchain Technology is Set to Transform the Supply Chain
How Blockchain Can Transform the Supply Chain Supply chain has become complicated. Some would say cumbersome. It takes days to make a payment between a manufacturer and a supplier, or a customer and a vendor. Contractual agreements require the services...
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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...
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