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Hiring and Retaining the New Supply Chain Workforce
Skills requirements for the supply chain workforce are changing fast, driven mainly by the growth in globalisation and the technology advances which will continue to transform the way supply chains operate. Moreover, tribal knowledge; the inherent wisdom acquired and...
Has Ecommerce Supersized the Supply Chain Warehouse?
While researching online for some blog post ideas, I came across a great article from Newsweek, written back in 1995. The author of the article was predicting that among other shortcomings of the Internet, it could never realistically support activities such as...
6 Tips for Employee Theft Prevention in Your Distribution Centre
With maybe hundreds of thousands of saleable products and materials in storage, distribution centres are tempting targets for theft by internal and external perpetrators. Effective prevention means guarding against theft by both external and internal perpetrators....
Mindset Challenges for Supply Chain Executives
Paul Blackburn explains to Rob O'Byrne some of the common mindset challenges for Senior Executives. Paul recently ran a session for members at Supply Chain Leaders Academy.
Why it’s Great to be a Logistics Consultant in Asia-Pacific
Sometimes, well … most of the time actually, I’m so busy looking into the future for Logistics Bureau and all our spin-off companies, as well as being up to my eyes in the present day-to-day, that I forget to take those golden moments of reflection that every...
What’s in Your Supply Chain Insurance Portfolio?
The last few years have provided a number of opportunities (if that’s the best expression) to test what happens when disaster strikes at the heart of just one link in today’s convoluted supply chains. Flooding in Thailand, the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, and a...
5 Quick Tips for Handling Seasonal Supply Chain Peaks
There’s a “ber” in the month, which means that for some, the festive season has arrived. Certainly in supply chain circles, it’s time to start anticipating the seasonal uplift in throughput and making plans to meet the extra demand. If this will be your first...
5 Tips for Selecting a Logistics Consulting Firm
As you may be aware, a large part of what we do at Logistics Bureau Group is helping supply chain and logistics companies improve their business through our consulting services. That means that since The Logistics Bureau was launched back in 1997, we’ve had plenty of...
Make Sure You Know Your Place in the Chain of Responsibility
Australia is a country famous for uniqueness … Kangaroos, wallabies, Duck-Billed whatchamacallits—the list goes on. In road transport legislation too, we have a set of regulations which while not totally unique, are not yet adopted on a widespread basis around the...
Distribution Centre Performance: How Do You Measure Yours?
As you may be aware, one of the businesses in the Logistics Bureau Group is Benchmarking Success, a company dedicated to helping supply chain enterprises to benchmark and measure performance. We founded the company because the complexity of increasingly global supply...