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Top Ten Tips to Boost Supply Chain Performance to Best in Class

Logistics Bureau

I’ll also be providing some step by step guides and tools on these at our Free Seminars Series in February and March, but more on that later. Look at how you are buying freight services and ask yourself two questions. Do you really need so much air freight or express freight? Here we go: Measuring the Right Stuff.

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Why Your Supply Chain Isn’t Best in Class

Logistics Bureau

I’m actually going to go into each of these 8 Tips in a lot more detail at our next Free Breakfast Seminar. So do you have a KPI ‘dashboard’ or a ‘book’? Believe me, I have seen 100 page ‘books’ of KPIs that no one except the author reads. 7 – Freight Transport – Service v Cost.

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Common Supply Chain Mistakes to Avoid

Logistics Bureau

I have seen businesses that produce monthly Supply Chain KPIs that resemble the New York Phone Book! (OK, OK, for anyone under 35, go and Google ‘Phone Book’). At our seminars I often share case studies demonstrating the impact of not getting this right. The prices your company is paying for freight transportation.

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Accelerating Your Trucking Business

Tailwind

I went to one of those motivational speaking seminars. He is the author of the book ‘ The One Thing You Need to Know ’. Today is a bit of difficult time in the freight industry. I enjoy these, and often think of ideas drawn from speeches by Malcolm Gladwell, Stephen Covey, Jack Walsh, Tom Peters, and Seth Godin.