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Is Your Supply Chain Network an Inventory Farm?
You might have noticed that "optimisation" is becoming quite the supply chain buzzword of late, especially amid any discussions about supply chain network design. In case you're thinking it's just another nice conceptual idea though, and that supply chain network...

Should Your Company Outsource Logistics? Ask These 4 Questions first
Over the last decade, outsourcing logistics has become a strong and continuing trend among manufacturers and sales organisations. In following that trend, some companies have had considerable success, while others have entered an expensive cycle of transition from...

Learn About Supply Chain by Networking With the Experts
If you're a professional within a manufacturing or sales company, you'll probably know something about supply chain. However, you might not have thought about the need to know about the inner workings of the logistics, procurement, and other functions which together...

Warehouse Excellence: The Seat of Customer Loyalty?
The warehouse, sometimes lying far from the customers it serves, may sound like an unlikely driver of customer loyalty, but in fact it has a huge impact on the customer experience. Companies that achieve warehouse excellence have a greater likelihood of securing...

How to Provide High-quality Data for the Supply Chain Team
If you're in the IT game, and responsible for data in a manufacturing, sales, or logistics organisation, you're likely at some point to provide the supply chain team with data for network optimisation, supply chain modeling, or some similar project requiring data...

Supply Chain Spend Analysis: A Win-win For Procurement and Logistics?
When procurement and other supply chain-related business functions work closely together, your company's financial performance can only see improvement. More and more organizations are gaining awareness of this and are focused on closing the divide between procurement...