Back To Work? How To Make Your Supply Chain Covid-Secure
In 1666, the Derbyshire village of Eyam suffered an outbreak of plague that claimed the lives of 260 inhabitants, allegedly after a contaminated package of cloth arrived from disea …
How Often Should You Review Your Integrated Transport Planning Strategy?
Most transport planning has a degree of reliance upon tried and tested skeleton routes and supply chains. These familiar friends can make planning easier, but they can be hiding si …
How Social Media Can Improve Your Supply Chain Management
If you don’t believe there is a place in social media for how you conduct your supply chain management, perhaps it’s time to reconsider. Twenty years ago you might have been right. …
Meeting The Complexity Of Modern Supply Chains
Few aspects of the buying journey are evolving as rapidly as supply chain networks. New technologies are emerging to support what is quickly becoming a global network for even the …
Understanding Supply Chain Management
Supply chain management is often confused with logistics, which is only one component of the supply chain, albeit a significant one.
What Skills Does A Supply Chain Consultant Need & Why?
The results of a leaner and more resilient supply chain go far deeper than just cost savings. Speed of delivery to the customer is a differentiator, especially in consumer goods an …
6 Benefits Of Supply Chain Management To Retailers
The fact that Amazon was considering drones as a delivery channel highlights how important that giant considers retail supply chain management to be. That particular innovation foc …
7 Key Responsibilities Of A Supply Chain Consultant
Any consultant is expected to supply specific expertise and deliverables as per his or her terms of reference, and that is their responsibility during a consultation assignment.
What Do Supply Chain Consultants Do & How Important Are They?
Reducing costs while improving reliability and customer satisfaction is how one can sum up the ideals of a Supply Chain Consultant. It’s what they do. How that is achieved is a mix …
Why Hire Supply Chain Consultants As A Small Business?
Consider this fact: a single strategy change, process tweak, or resource realignment might save a large company 1% of its logistics and supply chain overhead. That could well map t …