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Your Supply Chains group, Uncertainty and managing Risk – Learn About Logistics

Uncertainty in Supply Chains What new risks in your organisation’s supply chains have been identified? In the past week articles have discussed the potential (new?)...

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The planning part of Operations Planning and Scheduling – Learn About Logistics

Planning is a macro view Planning roles have always being analytical, but there is an increasing emphasis on working with system applications and tools and...

The role of Logistics within the Supply Chains group – Learn About Logistics

The role of each function The previous blogpost identified that the Aim of a Supply Chains group is to provide ‘Competitive Availability’ of products and...

Supply Chains Strategy is a consolidation of strategies – Learn About Logistics

Strategy and Tactics It is assumed by commentators that few businesses have developed a Supply Chains Network strategy. This may be due to the continuing...

Themes that will influence the design of supply chains – Learn About Logistics

Short-term noise Change happens continuously through our lives, but most is not important and we absorb the changes into what we do. Sometimes a change...

Adaptation through the Supply Chains for Climate Change – Learn About Logistics

COP28 climate conference The meeting in Dubai has concluded, and the limited outcomes are unlikely to make a substantial difference to the expected climate...

Link S&OP and S&OE to know Supply Chains Availability – Learn About Logistics

Supply Chains process gaps There are occasional articles that discuss misalignment or gaps in organisations’ supply chains, which occur in processes, information flows, and IT...

Supply Chain technologies and the Hype around them – Learn About Logistics

What has happened to self driving vehicles? An article in the New York Times of late 2018 argued that autonomous, self-driving vehicles were “a...

‘V’ words describe the strategic role of supply chains – Learn About Logistics

What are the 3Vs? In the late 1990s, the functions that are now viewed as the Supply Chains group – Procurement, Operations Planning and...

Supply Chains group provides Customer Care with profits – Learn About Logistics

Customers are necessary in commercial organisations But what is the collective view about customers inside the business? It is driven by the chief executive,...

What Supply Chain routes do product materials travel? – Learn About Logistics

‘Chain of custody’ for materials The approach when mapping your organisation’s supply chains is to typically start with relationships between your business and its...

Drivers to change trade lanes that serve Supply Chains – Learn About Logistics

Is the current reality just transitory? Forecasting is a worthy activity, because it requires people to think about the future. However, be careful about...

Supply Chains types and structure for better Planning – Learn About Logistics

Suitable solutions in Planning Because an organisation’s relationships within its supply chains differ to those of other businesses, it is not advisable to promote...

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