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How to Persuade the Logistics Team to Invest in WMS
If you're joining a manufacturing or sales organisation for the first time as an IT professional, there's every chance you'll be supporting your employer's logistics and supply chain functions. If so, you might be surprised to see some of those functions operating...
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Do You Really Need Another Distribution Centre in Your Network?
It's gratifying to know that your company's business is growing to the extent that your existing supply chain facilities can't keep up, but... If like many enterprises, you might be considering the creation of another distribution centre to ease pressure on your...
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HR Management Strategy and Logistics Workforce Performance
A high-performance supply chain is essential for any company to stay in front of the competition, and contrary to what many IT aficionados would have you believe, people are still the critical ingredient in supply chain performance. At a time when many companies...
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The Supply Chain and the Value Chain: The Same but Different?
You may have heard the term "value chain" being used among supply chain professionals and wondered if it's just a trendy alternative label, or if there is some difference between value chain and supply chain. Are they one and the same? Are they different? The answer...
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Why Supply Chain Inventory Should Matter to the Finance Pros
Here at Supply Chain Secrets, we like to talk about some of the issues in supply chain that matter to professionals in other parts of an organisation, like finance and IT for example. In this post, we cover some of the reasons why inventory should be a point of...
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Offshore Manufacturing: 3 Tips for Working With Chinese Sourcing Agents
When it comes to outsourcing your product manufacturing to China, I strongly recommend that you do your own legwork with regard to manufacturer selection. Once you have a manufacturer shortlist however, it will make sense to engage a Chinese sourcing agent to help...
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