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Supply Chain and Logistics Discussion3PL Selection: 7 Secrets for Supply Chain Leaders
No partnership should be entered into lightly, especially one on which your customer service performance depends. As some supply chain leaders have found out to the cost of their organisations, there's little room for error when it comes to choosing which 3PL provider...
Leveraging Big Data and the IoT in Omnichannel Retail
For many retailers it seems, the growth of omnichannel retail is less of a brave new world and more like a bad case of culture shock. Most executive leaders are doing their best to adapt their supply chains quickly to a business environment that's become an...
How to Gain Supply Chain Efficiency in Commoditised Markets
Is your company competing in a commoditised market? If so, you'll know that price matters to your customers more than anything else. That means that supply chain efficiency is essential, in order to minimise the pressure on margins. In this post, I outline some of the...
The Other Supply Chain Transparency: Provenance and Ethics
As a company executive, you probably know plenty about the need for visibility into your supply chain, as well as the challenges of improving supply chain transparency. However, your primary concern probably relates to supply chain transparency in the context of...
Using Resources Smartly
In this last part of our video interview series, Rob O'Byrne and Simon Bowen talk about using resources smartly. How do good Supply Chain Executives use Resources? Really good Supply Chain Executives have a keen sense on balancing internal resources, contractors and...
Handling Multiple Projects
In this sixth part of our video interview series, Rob O'Byrne and Simon Bowen talk about how handling multiple projects. Grappling with Multiple Projects Some Supply Chain Executives sometimes have, an at extreme end, multiple ongoing projects that number up to 20,...