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Align the 3 Supply Chain Management Pillars to Achieve Excellence
If you want to support your company’s overall business strategy, achieve excellence, and impress the C-suite, it is vital that you align strategy, service, and cost in your supply chain operations. Let’s look briefly at each of the three pillars in turn. ...
The Essentials to Consider in Your Warehouse Layout
You’ve seen them, right? Those dream warehouses where products arrive by truck, are efficiently offloaded and stacked on shelves by forklift operators, and later smoothly picked and reloaded for delivery to customers. Such efficiency...
10 Good Reasons to Review Your Distribution Network Design
Distribution network design is now receiving the attention it deserves from supply chain leaders, and with good reason. In fact, here are 10 good reasons. 10 Reasons to Review Your Distribution Network Design Overhauling a distribution network is a major undertaking...
Supply Chain Secrets Will be Touring the World in 2020
I have hinted previously on this site that I plan to do something different in 2020, something big. Something that will combine my two passions—education and travelling. I can now reveal details of my exciting new project: I will be taking my Supply Chain Secrets enterprise on a worldwide tour!
After Seven Years, End of an Era for Supply Chain Leaders Academy
The Supply Chain Leaders Academy, which for the past seven years has provided supply chain managers with a jam-packed programme designed to boost their practical knowledge of the industry, will come to an end in November. “It’s time to start something new,” says Academy founder Rob O’Byrne.
Supplier Appraisal: Does Your Company Have an Effective Process?
The Importance of an Effective Supplier Appraisal Process For any buyer in the supply chain environment, shopping around is no simple matter. Depending on your industry, there may be a limited supplier base servicing your market, and not all suppliers...