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Insourcing or Outsourcing Logistics: Don’t Choose the Wrong Reasons
We’ve outlined the pros and cons, discussed the steps in the outsourcing process, looked at mistakes contributing to outsourcing failure, and offered guidance to avoid those errors…
Sales and Operations Planning: The Interpersonal Element
Has your company ever suffered problems with, implemented, or even considered implementing a sales and operations (S&OP) planning process?…
No Supply Chain Strategy? Here’s How to Develop One
A company without a supply chain strategy is at a competitive disadvantage. Still, happily, that’s a situation that can be remedied quite quickly, as long as the management team is prepared to put in the necessary effort.
Spotlight On: The 10 Most Common Pallet Racking Systems
Pallet racking systems pervade the logistics landscape. Scattered across the country in distribution centres, sheds and stores, racking fixtures of all shapes and sizes store goods for our nation…
What is Slotting and Why is it an Important Productivity Tool?
Slotting is the shorthand term for the process of allocating product, (SKU’s), to locations in the Warehouse according to business rules and product characteristics…
Cost to Serve – A Smarter Way to Improved Supply Chain Profitability
Supply chains are complex entities. Even if you simplify your product range and your upstream suppliers, you still have to deal with the ramifications of diverse customers, their expectations, their location and the logistics needed to meet their requirements…
Warehouse Design – Rules of Thumb… And a Checklist
It’s not uncommon for delegates at our workshops and seminars to ask us to can share our ‘rules of thumb’ on warehouse design…
The 7 Principles of Warehouse and Distribution Centre Design
Warehouse and distribution centre (DC) design is a fascinating and absorbing topic, but alas, is often misunderstood. Regrettably, few people fully understand the discipline of warehouse design and because of this, literally thousands of facilities are underperforming…
Spotlight on: 7 Key Warehouse Processes
Are all warehouses the same? Short answer: no, but yes! This contradiction in terms is probably best explained by the Thai phrase; ‘Same, same, but different’…