Supply Chain Secrets Blog
Logistics and Supply Chain news, articles, tips and insights
How to Health Check Your Supply Chain
Supply Chain Health Checks are really vital to maintain performance. So do you regularly check your Supply Chain Health? What aspects do you check?…
How to get involved with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)?
CSR or Corporate Social Responsibility is an essential element in any Business these days. But for many smaller businesses, it can be hard to get started on a CSR program. It can seem very expensive.
But there are easy ways to get involved…
How Many Warehouses Should You Have?
It’s a very common question we get all the time. And the answer is different for every sort of business. But still, the most important aspect of your distribution network is your customer service offer.
Why?
Find out on this video…
Omnichannel Retail and the Cost to Serve Online Customers
In the wake of the Coronavirus crisis, a significant number of retail enterprises have taken their business online, adding to the already vast array of online shopping opportunities for consumers. Ecommerce competition was already fierce before the pandemic curbed consumer enthusiasm for in-store shopping, and now, it is even more so…
Supply Chain Career Tips
With its diverse range of operations, the Supply Chain industry provides numerous opportunities for jobs and career advancement…
Inventory Optimisation: How Much Stock is Right for Your Company?
Among the universal challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed upon the supply chain management profession is the question of inventory, specifically, “how much is enough?”…
Fat Supply Chains
Indeed. Most Supply Chains are overweight. Nevertheless, they can improve their service and cut their costs by up to 24%. How? Through Supply Chain Benchmarking…
Business Risk and Insurance with Lisa Castagnola
Almost every business with employees has to handle the course of workers’ compensation, an insurance that covers medical expenses and a portion of lost wages for employees who become injured or ill on the job…
Black Swan Planning in the Supply Chain
We can’t always plan for all circumstances, particularly in Supply Chain. But we need to at least ‘think through’ some worst-case scenarios and have some conceptual plans in place. So how good is your Supply Chain Planning? What kinds of things do you plan for?…
Retail Supply Chains: The State of Play in 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a decade of changes to the retail world in just a year and a half or so.
Few retailers can hope to grow, or even survive today, without the ability to sell through ecommerce channels. Supply chains are continually disrupted by container shortages, a lack of air freight capacity, and movement restrictions implemented by governments to combat the pandemic…