Setting stock levels in stores – does one size fit all?
We would have thought that getting the ‘right’ quantity of stock on the shelves would have been quite an important question for retailers.....
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Cost Cutting AND Enhancing Service Levels.....
What should you be focussing on in the Supply Chain, as we ready ourselves for an economic downturn?
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Distribution strategy: Regional, Central or Hybrid network?
This is a critical question in determining the lowest cost and optimal service level distribution network for an organisation.
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Adding up your fleet cost – what opportunities are there to reduce cost?
This article reviews a number of potential opportunities that exist to reduce the delivery costs to your business.
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How much experience do you really want?
Most managers spend large parts of their career in a relatively few sectors; consumer products, engineering, defence supplies, car industry etc.. And that is why their career progresses; they know the sector and they know the levers that make a difference in performance.
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How to determine when a new factory or a new DC should be built?
Summarising on two sides of paper where, how, and when to locate operational infrastructure is a tough task.....
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What are the economic quantities?
A classic question of business education, which comes up surprisingly rarely in real life is what is the economic lot size?
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Preparing for Recession
A list of actions to prepare for recession.
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Warehousing in China? Learn Mandarin instead
Given the growth of Far East manufacturing, the 'right answer' to the 'trucks and sheds' question is to have a shed in the FE, isn't it?
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Pack Size - why does it matter...
A tale of showing the impact of pack size to a retailler, and not much happening...
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Too much gut feel
Too much supply chain decision making is based on gut feel or custom and practice...
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The passive-aggressive approach
The relationship between manufacturers and retailers is all too often broken, especially internationally…
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The time is now
Wage rates (as well as duty and tax) have always shown big differences, but now there is an historic opportunity to access these savings …
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Shooting white elephants
Retailers have been trying to exploit automated warehousing for the last 10 years. Mostly it has been a disaster...
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You’ll always be wrong or lucky
Most people apply at least some science to the forecasting of trends and ‘normal demand’...
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Re-re-re-implementation
All too often you hear of implementations that didn’t deliver the goods ...
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Outsource and be damned
The idea of outsourcing the supply chain is sometimes just too compelling ...
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The exotic mystery of service
Why does nobody know what service level they really should be targeting? ...
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