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Revealed! The Secrets of Supply Chain Elearning Success
As the founder of Supply Chain Secrets, a supply chain elearning program that's been established for some years now, I've been watching the phenomenal development of online vocational education with great interest. Did you know for example, that an estimated...
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4 Secrets Your Supply Chain Education Might Not Have Revealed
As you might imagine of someone who runs companies in supply chain education and supply chain consulting, I come into contact with a lot of supply chain professionals. One thing that used to surprise me is how many of these professionals—most of whom received a...
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Know What to Look For in Packaged Logistics Training
Are you responsible for the provision of training in your supply chain or logistics organisation? If so, and yours is like many companies, packaged logistics training from education providers may well be your preferred option, rather than developing...
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Supply Chain Education: Which Skills Should today’s Leaders Focus On?
A few years ago, supply chain education for leaders focused almost exclusively on technical skills relevant to logistics or procurement functions. Today though, we've arrived at an age in which integration is a much bigger deal, meaning supply chain leaders...
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Who Really Needs Supply Chain Training in Your Company?
When you hear quotes like "Companies don't compete. Supply chains compete" made by some of the world's foremost corporate executives, you know for sure that the value of supply chain training and education is greater than it has ever been before. Business...
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Selecting Content for Your Supply Chain Training Program: A Serialised Guide
A supply chain training program covering as much ground as possible and delivered from a pragmatic, (rather than theoretical) perspective is one of the best investments you can make to drive organisational improvement, but it's not necessarily easy to put-together,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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