Warehouse Excellence: The Seat of Customer Loyalty?

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

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...
An Introduction to Supply Chain Collaboration

An Introduction to Supply Chain Collaboration

If you’re new to the supply chain arena, there will inevitably be terms and concepts with which you are not familiar. Some of them can be a little confusing too, until you put in some research effort to better understand them, since their names alone may not...
Manufacturing in China: Still Viable in 2016?

Manufacturing in China: Still Viable in 2016?

Despite reports of a slowdown in the number of companies outsourcing manufacturing to Chinese factories, and the country’s economic downturn, China remains a popular location for contract manufacturing. This is evidenced by the decision of at least two Western...