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Health Supply Chains and Gates Foundation Insights
We have another exciting episode to watch and learn! We got Deborah Dull to share about Health Supply Chains and Supply Chain Education. Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on August 19, 2020, under the title "Health Supply...
Online Learning is Growing Exponentially—And it’s Here to Stay
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought staggering changes in higher education around the world. Whereas online courses and programmes were previously managed as a separate entity, they are now an integral part of most academic systems…
Why Large Companies Increasingly Opt for 4PL Services
Because 4PL providers handle a company’s entire chain, including challenges that are thrown up by advances in technology, they are increasingly being favoured over third-party logistics (3PL) providers, especially by big companies with complex supply chains…
Supply Chain Advice with Steven Thacker
“The things that matter most should never be at the mercy of the things that matter least” - Stephen Covey, author of the book entitled 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People' Watch the video below for more supply chain advice from Steven Thacker, Executive...
Boom Time for the Shared Economy within Supply Chain
For most people, the shared economy is best illustrated by the Uber and AirBnB concept of crowdsourcing and convenience services based on digital platforms…
Supply Chain and Logistics KPIs – Keep it Simple
We get a lot of questions relating to KPIs than anything else on this blog and on our YouTube channel so here are some useful tips for that and hope you find this useful for your supply chain KPIs preparation. Do not have too many Do not go overboard to a 100-pager...
How to Get a Job in Supply Chain in another Country
Getting a job overseas and getting a job in supply chain, this is what Naveed has done, he is our young and talented Business Analyst in Logistics Bureau. It’s basically hitting two birds in one stone for this guy! How did he do it and how could you be successful too...
Cost to Serve Case Study that was Off the Scale! – with Steven Thacker
What are the three things that people get wrong with their supply chains? 1. Focusing on the wrong things 2. Understanding margins in your product 3. Not setting the bar high enough for cost reduction planning With us is Steven Thacker, Rob’s fellow director in...
Freight Procurement Tips with Trent Morris
WHAT ROLE CAN PROCUREMENT PLAY ON FREIGHT EXPENDITURE? “A better way, in my opinion, of approaching it is to simply define what you actually want them to give you” – Trent Morris Once again our favorite purchasing and procurement consultant, Trent Morris, gives us...
What to Focus on First – COST to SERVE – Supply Chain – Logistics
Here’s a brief review of our webinar which mainly tackles the importance of Cost to Serve in the Supply Chain and the understanding of the cost in a detailed level of servicing different types of customers and products. Related articles on this...