On a recent seminar tour I talked about what I called the 5 Key Levers in Supply Chain management. Here's a summary video. Share this with someone you know! Tweet
What is a Supply Chain?
This post is an 'excerpt' from the book "What is Supply Chain Management", where John Turner, one of the authors tells us what a supply chain is about. How you define a supply chain depends to some extent on your perspective. People from particular backgrounds, organisations and companies will talk about supply chains and logistics…
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What is “Storage Media”?
The term storage media relates to the static equipment employed to store the product in the most space efficient way. It covers racking of varying types, shelving and small parts binning. The aim is to be flexible enough, in the different types of storage media to meet the characteristics of the variety of items to…
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What is a Warehouse Management System?
What’s important here is that your warehouse management system or WMS, however it runs, lets you efficiently manage the location of goods and materials in the warehouse, and their movement through the warehouse. It can be manual, as was the case in the 1970’s for many warehouse systems. Nowadays, the WMS is usually an IT system….
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What is the Role of Tow Operators?
Tow operators are line haul operators. They fit in by towing the trailers of a freight forwarding company or an express freight company across states to get goods to the next cross docking point. Their activity is closely integrated with that of the freight forwarder, but in general invisible to the end customer, who often…
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What is Drop Ship?
This post is an 'excerpt' from the book "What is Supply Chain Management", where John Cole, one of the authors tells us what drop ship is about. “Drop ship” means that the seller or retailer of a product takes orders for the product, but passes the responsibility for customer delivery back to the manufacturer or…
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What is a Warehouse?
Here is an excerpt from the book that defines a warehouse or a distribution centre. A good definition of a warehouse is “a planned space for the efficient storage and handling of goods and materials”. In that sense, we can use the words “warehouse” and “distribution centre” interchangeably. What’s important to note in the definition is…
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What is a Transport Planner?
This post is an 'excerpt' from the book "What is Supply Chain Management", where John Cole, one of the authors tells us about transport planners. The first thing to understand is that transport can be planned both by users and by providers of transport services. For users, this helps to avoid inefficiency unduly impacting a business as the…
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What is the best course of study for working in supply chain?
At school or university, which study courses would be appropriate for working in supply chain? Here is an excerpt from the book that gives you the answer. Certificate-level training courses tend to feature transport and logistics, covering warehouse operations, driving courses and other operational aspects such as furniture removal and rail infrastructure. At…
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What is it that makes the supply chain industry interesting?
If you have not realised this yet, what really makes the supply chain industry interesting are the great career opportunities. And perhaps you are the person to do the job but don't know it yet! Here is John Turner, one of the authors of the book to give you some advice. My first piece of advice to anyone…
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