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The 3 Pillars of Supply Chain Management (And Why Their Alignment Matters)

Logistics Bureau

From an inventory perspective then, service means maintaining an appropriate level of stock to meet your promises to your customers. Hence it’s critical to balance inventory levels and deployment strategy to meet availability and cost requirements. Too many nodes will result in excessive warehouse cost and inventory levels.

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Reducing Working Capital in Supply Chains

Logistics Bureau

By working with finance and accounting, a supply chain can optimise its cash management (meet expenses without excessive cash holding costs), its debtor management (customer payments), and its short term financing (using supplier credit or factoring of customer invoices, for example). The first lever is the enterprises finance department.

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The Dispatch Report | October 2019, Issue No. 12

Shipchain

Meetings with some of the most prominent players in the Food and Beverage space and getting to speak to decision-makers directly . Attending different workshops in which we were able to fine-tune our timed 3-minute pitch (want to hear the whole thing? These events are huge opportunities for us to meet our future clients.