Jul 26, 2022 | Article, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Strategy
As you’ll know, if you follow our blog regularly, Logistics Bureau does a great deal of work related to supply chain strategy development and alignment. As a result, and as we’ve mentioned in several previously published articles, we’ve discovered that many companies...
Jul 19, 2022 | Article, Logistics, Performance Measurement - KPIs, Supply Chain, Supply Chain KPIs
For many organisations, the reality of supplier performance management is that time and opportunity to track and react to dozens of complex KPIs simply doesn’t exist. Regardless of advances in business analytics therefore, I still advocate a measured approach...
Jul 5, 2022 | Article, Business Improvement, Slotting, Supply Chain, Warehouse
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. It is normally restricted to the picking face or on-line locations only however it can impose some...
Jun 21, 2022 | Article, Business Improvement, Cost to Serve, Supply Chain
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. While...
Jun 14, 2022 | Article, Distribution Centre, Distribution Channels, Distribution Network Design, Supply Chain, Warehouse
It’s not uncommon for delegates at our workshops and seminars to ask us to can share our ‘rules of thumb’ on warehouse design. Therefore, we thought we’d put them here in an article, so anyone can refer to them when necessary. We’ve also added a...
Jun 7, 2022 | Article, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Strategy
Despite the apparent complexities involved in supply chain management, achieving excellence really doesn’t have to be too difficult. Just review and build on our three fundamental pillars of great supply chain management. In this post, we explain what...
