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3 Benefits of Transportation Fleet Benchmarking in Logistics Companies
Are you responsible for transport and distribution in a manufacturing or retail organisation? Is your company a third-party logistics provider with its own fleet of transport assets? Or are you in charge of a field service company or division, trying to maximise the...
Supply Chain and Logistics Process Mapping: Why and When to Do It
If your company has ever hired a logistics consulting company (or any type of consulting firm for that matter), you may have noticed how keen their consultants are to carry out logistics process mapping at the start of a project. Rest assured, process mapping is not...
Supplier Days: A Great Way to Jump Start Supply Chain Collaboration
It's also no secret that supply chain collaboration, while invaluable, is something easier said than done. If this is something your company is endeavouring to master, a great place to start is with your direct suppliers. One way to get the collaborative ball rolling...
3 Steps to Keep Forced Labour Out of Your Supply Chain
Australian fashion companies have been making the news lately, but not all of them in a good way. At least two luxury clothing brands were publicly criticised for their inability or unwillingness to disclose the sources of their products, leading to speculation that...
Hiring and Retaining the New Supply Chain Workforce
Skills requirements for the supply chain workforce are changing fast, driven mainly by the growth in globalisation and the technology advances which will continue to transform the way supply chains operate. Moreover, tribal knowledge; the inherent wisdom acquired and...
Has Ecommerce Supersized the Supply Chain Warehouse?
While researching online for some blog post ideas, I came across a great article from Newsweek, written back in 1995. The author of the article was predicting that among other shortcomings of the Internet, it could never realistically support activities such as...
6 Tips for Employee Theft Prevention in Your Distribution Centre
With maybe hundreds of thousands of saleable products and materials in storage, distribution centres are tempting targets for theft by internal and external perpetrators. Effective prevention means guarding against theft by both external and internal perpetrators....
Mindset Challenges for Supply Chain Executives
Paul Blackburn explains to Rob O'Byrne some of the common mindset challenges for Senior Executives. Paul recently ran a session for members at Supply Chain Leaders Academy.
Why it’s Great to be a Logistics Consultant in Asia-Pacific
Sometimes, well … most of the time actually, I’m so busy looking into the future for Logistics Bureau and all our spin-off companies, as well as being up to my eyes in the present day-to-day, that I forget to take those golden moments of reflection that every...
What’s in Your Supply Chain Insurance Portfolio?
The last few years have provided a number of opportunities (if that’s the best expression) to test what happens when disaster strikes at the heart of just one link in today’s convoluted supply chains. Flooding in Thailand, the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, and a...