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Sustaining National Defence – logistics investment in the National Defence Strategy

Logistics in War

In fact, Defence’s logistics capability was in a long-term ‘secular’ decline which followed four decades of sales of infrastructure, commercialisation and outsourcing, and successive force structure programs and plans which harvested the ‘tail’ to, it was thought, the ‘teeth’. Before this time, the situation was grim.

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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. Ideally, though, evaluating your position against competitors should not solely be a KPI benchmarking exercise. Instead, it should always be the other way around.

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

Logistics Bureau

Retail activity is extremely seasonal, with the majority of sales occurring between March and July. However, the company needed to reduce supply chain expenditure significantly after bringing its low-cost “Atom” chip to market. As in most commercial sectors at that time, sales were falling.

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Use the New GDPR Legislation to Rethink the Way You Market

Logistics Marketing Advisors

Communication is a two-way street, of course. If an honest assessment points more to the latter, now is a good time to course correct. As the full GDPR document is quite lengthy, there is a lot to digest when beginning your compliance journey. This is, after all, a law agreed upon by the European Parliament and Council.

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Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions

GlobalTranz

Vendor Managed Inventory Model : The manufacturer receives electronic data ( usually via EDI or the Internet) that tells him the distributor’s sales and stock levels. The manufacturer can view every item that the distributor carriers as well as true point of sale data. Ask for copies of documents. What is Value Analysis?