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No Supply Chain Strategy? Here’s How to Develop One

Logistics Bureau

As a result, and as we’ve mentioned in several previously published articles, we’ve discovered that many companies lack a defined and documented supply chain strategy. Now you know what your customers genuinely expect from your outbound and reverse supply chain, so it’s time to undertake a gap analysis. Probably not.

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No Supply Chain Strategy? Here’s How to Develop One

Logistics Bureau

As a result, weve discovered that many companies lack a defined and documented supply chain strategy. Step 2: Gap Analysis Customer Requirements and Supply Chain Trends Now you know what your customers genuinely expect from your outbound and reverse supply chain, so its time to undertake a gap analysis. Probably not.

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Don’t Let Your RFT be a 3PL Solution Designer’s Nightmare

Logistics Bureau

Selecting the right 3PL is no simple exercise, yet it’s one that’s all too often subject to shortcuts, a dearth of detail, and overly compressed timelines. In many cases, we need only look at the very first steps in the partnering process to spot the first signs of rot. If Only There Were More Good Tenders.

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7 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

The Path to Cost Reduction: Following a SCOR supply chain benchmarking exercise, AGCO decided to approach its cost reduction and efficiency goals by blending new technology—in the form of a globally integrated transport management system (TMS)—with a commitment to form a partnership with a suitably capable 3PL provider. Procurement analysis.

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Navigating unchartered waters

Automotive Logistics

Outbound cybersecurity lags behind . As for Jack Cooper’s interaction with automotive OEMs on the topic of cybersecurity, Amico says that discussions are ongoing to organise collaborative “table-top exercises” to simulate a joint response to a potential cyberattack. I probably talk to them more about that than any other single item.”.