Supply Chain & Logistics Insights
Vaccine Supply Chains: Explained
Vaccine Supply Chains! A great insight this week from Prashant Yadav. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, Affiliate Professor at INSEAD, and Lecturer at Harvard Medical School. He is a globally recognized scholar in the area of healthcare supply chains…
Understanding Chain of Responsibility (CoR) & Compliance & Enforcement (C&E)
What is Chain of Responsibility? How important is it to understand, and what are the misconceptions about it? In this episode, Urszula Kelly, Logistics Bureau’s Senior Consultant, sheds some light on this matter and gives us some tips on what other things to know and avoid.
Best in Class Supply Chains
What is a Best in Class Supply Chain, and why is it important? To answer these questions, watch this episode…
6 Things A CEO Should Know About the Supply Chain
If you are a company CEO, this article is for you. If you are a senior supply chain manager, director, or leader of one of the functions touched by the supply chain, it's for you too, as long as you have the ear of your company's CEO. What you are about to learn is...
9 Supply Chain Planning Steps for Project Management
What does it take to prepare for managing a supply chain project? A comprehensive step-by-step guide would be a welcome start, indeed. So here it is… Ten steps to successful supply chain project preparation.
No Supply Chain Strategy? Here’s How to Develop One
A company without a supply chain strategy is at a competitive disadvantage. Still, happily, that’s a situation that can be remedied quite quickly, as long as the management team is prepared to put in the necessary effort.
Supply Chain Glossary of Terms
In the supply chain sector, just like any industry, we have a multitude of terms that are commonly used. So, I decided to create this list to help you decipher any supply-chain-related terms that you come across for the first time. If you have any others to add,...
How to Boost Your 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...
How AI Can Help Build Your Supply Chain
How close are we to supply chains that can run themselves? Are production, warehousing and transport ready to become lights-out operations, where no human being is needed? Artificial intelligence can already automate much of the supply chain. It can also make a supply...
Ten Ideas for Freight Cost Reduction in Your Supply Chain
As freight transportation costs continue to rise year-on-year, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and any other organisations that are part of a supply chain must think smarter about pushing down the cost of moving goods from A to B. Every shipper’s challenge in...