Taking the leap as Merchants: The ecommerce evolution
Adding an ecommerce consumer offering to your trade business represents a unique and exciting opportunity for merchants.
7 signs you might need a bigger warehouse
If you’ve found yourself trying to maximise your current warehouse space, and are still coming up short, these 7 symptoms might be the sign you need that it’s time to make a move.
Simulating risk: Supply chain survival in the 2020s
What happens when focus shifts quickly from expansion and growth, to loss mitigation and cost-saving initiatives?
Improving supply chain sustainability for HGVs
While the pace of change in the electrification of cars is clearly accelerating (almost 20% of new car sales in 2021 were electric vehicles), the pace of change in HGVs is far slower.
Maximising the value of promotions (without over-stocking)
Properly integrated across a business, a well-executed promotions strategy can have a real positive impact on a company’s bottom line.
Getting the most out of 3PL tenders (from both sides)
As independent advisors, we have the opportunity of being able to take a step back and see the process for what it really is – an exercise in effective communication and collaboration.
Making warehouse automation work for your business
The companies that have developed the most robust solutions to automation have understood the aspects of their warehouse operation that could be best automated and built around that a flexible, typically manual, solution to cope with the balance of activity.
Why you should build a ‘mini digital twin’ to test your supply chain assumptions
In a recent project, we undertook the analytics (the ‘Digital Twin’ of part of the supply chain) to demonstrate the opportunity for a change in ways of working.
Lifelong learning and Data Science
Thinking about the soft skills that make for a successful career in Data Science…
What is a Supply Chain Analyst?
A Supply Chain Analyst combines expertise in identifying both supply chain inefficiencies and opportunities (much like a Supply Chain Consultant). What differentiates a Supply Chain Analyst is that data analysis-led recommendations make up a key part of their output.