Near Death & Your Supply Chain
I really thought I might die. My face mask was filling with water and needed to be constantly cleared. And the physical effort required to keep myself off the coral was sapping my energy fast. Real fast… My heart was pounding through my chest. Over 50 and over...
How Omni-channel Commerce is Shaking up the Supply Chain
A couple of years ago, speculation was fierce as to whether or not ecommerce and especially the growing trend in mobile shopping (that is, shopping online via a mobile device) would spell the death knell for brick-and-mortar stores. As things have panned...
How to Attain Quick Wins in Supply Chain Cost Reduction Using Lean
Supply chain cost reduction is not something to be tackled as a project. After all, a project has a finite lifespan. When a project is completed, nothing else happens until another project is begun. In the meantime the supply chain continues to change and evolve,...
4 Tips to Reduce Supply Chain Costs Without Sacrificing Service
It’s a classical trade-off in the world of logistics—the need to keep supply chain costs at a minimum while maintaining the levels of service needed to keep your customers loyal. Sometimes it seems there will be no end to the requirement to do more with less. So how...
4 Common Supply Chain Cost Blowouts
Whatever your supply chain role might be, monitoring and controlling costs is almost certain to be an important area of responsibility for you. However, when you’re busy with the day-to-day activities of keeping materials moving and fulfilling customer orders, it’s...
3 Ways Supply Chain Companies’ Cost Reduction Plans Go Bad
If you’ve been working with supply chain companies for any length of time, you’ll know how important it is to control operational costs. On occasion though, some supply chain companies’ cost reduction efforts get taken too far, especially when ambitious initiatives...
Your Supply Chain can’t tell you when it’s SICK
Is your Supply Chain Sick? If only your Supply Chain could talk… I recently shared some tips with you on a Supply Chain Health Check that would get you off to a great start for the Year. It was prompted by my own ‘Health Check’! That post is here. But it made me...
How are your Supply Chain KPIs or Vital Signs?
When did you last check your Supply Chain ‘vital’ signs? I started the New Year off with a Health Check, as I usually do. Not for my Supply Chain, but my personal Health. It must be an age thing…. But it got me thinking about Health Checks for your Supply Chain. I was...
Supply Chain Training: Why it’s Not Just for Logistics Practitioners
Are you running a medium to large organisation that relies on supply chain management to service your customers? If so, you probably have a number of functional departments, some of which are made up of logistics practitioners and some which perform the other vital...
Meeting the 5 Challenges of Supply Chain Education
How do you learn how to succeed in supply chain, an environment that is constantly changing, that cuts across more functional areas in an organisation than almost any other discipline, and that relies on practical judgment just as much as textbook theory – especially...