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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

The goal is to reduce or avoid one billion metric tons (a gigaton) of greenhouse gasses from the global value chain by 2030. The number of small and medium-sized British businesses selling over Amazon’s marketplace soared by more than 25 percent in 2021, faster than in Germany, France, or Italy.

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Roundtable Series: Scaling in a Compromised Supply Chain

Unleashed

Three Spirit has a VAT registration in the Netherlands, for instance, but David Press says that to expand to more locations, they’ll need to find a supply from other parts of Europe, such as Germany, Spain, Scandinavia and France. But of course, if you don’t have supply, then those sales just collapse.”

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An Interview on Building a Case for Supplier Information Management (SIM)

HICX Solutions

Stephane does note these metrics will be individual to every company depending on various factors and what their overall organizational goals are as well. Cost to serve: they were able to reduce supplier communication related costs. The importance of all stakeholders.

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The Evolution of a Supply Chain Planning Support Team

DynaSys

We adapted the metrics put in place by QAD in order to measure our activity, which helped us in understanding what we could do, how we could improve, and what were our limits. Of course, there is still room for improvement, and we do not want to stop where we are today.

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Of course they need to be SMART. It’s an issue I see again and again in the course of my consulting activity. A KPI is a metric… but not just any metric. A KPI is a metric focused on a KEY element of business, departmental, or team performance. Which ones to use?… … How many to use?

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