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Logistics Outsourcing Partnerships and Why It’s Time to Break a Rule or Two
Logistics Outsourcing Partnerships The logistics outsourcing partnership has a split personality. On one hand, it is often presented as a tried and trusted business move, governed by a few basic principles to ensure smooth sailing. References and case studies...
read moreCost 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 the ramifications of diverse customers, their expectations, their location and the logistics needed to meet their requirements. While...
read more5 Tips To Keep the WMS Implementation Gremlins Away
The usual causes of mischievous and disruptive WMS implementation gremlins are poor product or vendor selection and improperly managed implementation projects. Of course, few WMS implementation projects are without some teething issues, but with the right approach,...
read moreIs Nearshoring the Solution to Rising Transportation Costs?
Soaring crude oil prices and the explosion in globalisation (and corresponding reduction in transport availability) over the last decade or so, have together kiboshed some of the factors which once fueled a steady growth in offshore manufacture and procurement. ...
read moreBig Data: A Big Impact on Future Supply Chain Strategy?
Every now and again, a new technology development catches the world’s attention and spawns a mass of hype and conjecture. Big data appears to be one such example of this. Perhaps because it contains the word “big”, what actually amounts to large quantities of...
read more3 Frequently Asked Questions about Cost to Serve
For every sale made by your supply chain company, whether it’s the sale of a product or a service, there is a set of underlying costs which to some degree eat into its profitability. If your company is large and provides a range of product lines or services, some of...
read moreA Supply Chain Company’s Journey to Understanding Cost to Serve
Conducting a Cost to Serve analysis can help you and your company understand where the biggest influences on your profit margins lie. It can also serve as a basis for understanding which customers are more or less profitable and for identifying ways to do things...
read moreTendering for Knowledge
In this video I talk to Procurement expert Craig Lardner about procuring knowledge services. Can they be sourced just like widgets? Or does it require a different approach? We'll follow this up with some Guides and Templates for you... If you'd like to learn...
read more5 Tips To Keep the WMS Implementation Gremlins Away
The usual causes of mischievous and disruptive WMS implementation gremlins are poor product or vendor selection and improperly managed implementation projects. Of course, few WMS implementation projects are without some teething issues, but with the right approach,...
read moreIf you were given the Time to Think
What would you think about if you were given the time ... alone ... with no distractions ... for 40 days! ? I recently had that opportunity... ...
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