Requis

OCTOBER 30, 2020

He has been helping companies design more profitable supply chains for over 25 years, most of them as founder and CEO of Logistics Bureau. It was far more fascinating than military logistics, so within a few years I decided to leave and headed out to Australia and worked for a consulting company for two or three years.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

If you have not yet tackled the question of ethics in procurement, now is a great time to start. It does not matter whether you are a procurement professional, internal customer, external customer, senior executive, or supplier. Procurement is what sets entire supply chains and their organisations in motion.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 14, 2020

Define your procurement response strategy. This in turn could put logistics under pressure at companies like Amazon. The reduction in air travel means companies must find alternatives, for example increasing warehouse capacity for non-perishable goods and chartering special flights for perishable goods. The longer-term impacts.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 7, 2023

This report’s byline begins: “ Increasingly, (however), under a weighty combination of commercial and political pressure, foreign companies are beginning to pluck up the courage if not to leave China entirely, then at least look beyond it for growth.” billion in population will be the linchpin of an alternative sourced Asian supply network.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 6, 2013

News of the increasing death toll in Bangladesh continues to pour in, with the latest at 600 found dead in the rubble of the Rama factory complex. Demonstrators are protesting apparel offices (such as Gap’s offices in San Francisco) to demand better working conditions in Bangladesh factories. Some companies are taking steps.

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The recent report on Digital SRM Supplier Relationship Management from State of Flux reveals a massive $550 billion unrealized opportunity for companies. CSR ratings are a vital element of the information and insights that procurement teams need to build trust and deepen relationships with suppliers.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 4, 2015

As part of the conference, I’m delivering a talk on five predictions that every procurement professional should consider. These aren’t so much “predictions”, as opportunities that procurement professionals should become aware of, and educate themselves on.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 25, 2016

I asked that question almost three years ago following the collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 workers and injured thousands of others. As reported in The Guardian last week: Identifying poor labor practices and stopping them can be a time consuming and costly task for companies.

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EcoVadis

MARCH 17, 2016

As companies have tried to gain greater visibility over their supply chains, most have deployed an “audit cycle approach” to enforce supplier compliance with client company policies and expectations. This creates several issues that ultimately limit the level of accuracy of audits. Limitation 2- Cost.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

We will also continue to increased customer expectations, lower tolerance for poor performance, and low brand loyalty, making this a truly treacherous environment for companies of all sorts. In one company I interviewed, the analytical team explored the relationship between economic activity, consumer demand, and demand for their products.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 26, 2021

That makes the slow but steady increase in the number of large companies doing just that all the more notable. A combination of geopolitical instability and lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic has many companies, large and small, second-guessing their commitment to China as a center for offshore manufacture.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 14, 2016

Consequently, if a company is involved in overseas operations it is often exposed to a higher degree of risk, which in turn can significantly impact bottom-line growth and affect success across intra-company departments. However, companies making use of an FTA must comply with the terms of the specific agreement. Bangladesh.

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