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...
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...
Why Do You Do…..What You Do?
I think anyone in business is used to be asked, "What do You do"? It's often a difficult question for me to answer, because 'what' I do is very much influenced by 'why' I do it. If you haven't watched the Simon Sinek Video 'Start with Why' I would recommend you do....
How Good is YOUR Supply Chain
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Supply Chain Profitability
How many of your products and customers are really profitable? You might be shocked. Check out this short video. So let me ask you a question, do you think all of your customers and products are profitable? I’m not so sure. Hi, I’m Rob O’Byrne from...
Selling Online? What It Means for Your Logistics Network Design
This article was first published in the July/July 2018 issue and is re-posted here with kind permission from MHD Supply Chain Solutions. Online retail is accounting for an ever-larger part of total retail sales. Consumers armed with smartphones now...
Beyond the Beer Game: Tips for Responsible Logistics Gamification
For all the hype currently surrounding workplace gamification, it is not an entirely new business concept. In fact, here at Logistics Bureau, we’ve been using the Beer Game (a supply chain simulation) for years now, as a way to help companies educate their...
The Status of Logistics in Vietnam: A Very Brief Appraisal
If you are a new Vietnamese business operator in search of logistics services, a foreign company considering entering the Vietnamese market, or a multinational logistics enterprise thinking about cashing in on the country’s economic growth, it’s a good idea to...
8 Reasons Companies Bring Outsourced Operations Back In-house
The supply chain industry is constantly in a state of flux, with nothing ever seeming to stay the same for very long. Globalisation, ever-changing customer needs, and other market forces serve to maintain a state of liquidity, requiring companies to re-evaluate...
Spotlight On: Additional Storage Media
This article, written by Mal Walker, Manager at Logistics Bureau, was first published in the May/June 2018 issue of MHD Supply Chain Solutions. Following from my last article, I have included some additional storage modes. Included are static storage...