Supply Chains Operating Performance – A Financial Approach to Measurement. In 17 easy pages, Supply Chains Operating Performance – A Financial Approach to Measurement outlines an approach for measuring the value of Supply Chains in your organisation. Use the eBook as a useful starting point to gain support for a new approach to performance measurement. Support must be obtained from … Read More
Interfacing or integrating supply chain IT applications
Justify Supply Chain applications. Justifying expenditure on software for Supply Chains is a tough sell – there are other functions with equal demands for money. It requires a careful definition of requirements, commencing with answers to a few basic questions. What are the business reasons for needing the application(s)? What are the criteria for evaluating and buying the software? What methodologies … Read More
We’ve made some changes to our website
Just a quick blog post to let you know about some minor changes we’ve made to the Learn About Logistics website. As you know, our website features weekly blog posts – you can search our full archive of nearly 200 posts. We’ve added a new downloads page making it easier for you to download our learning resources. In future, we’ll add … Read More
Demand and supply risks at logistics service providers
Risks with commodity services. Many people work in or are affected by the volatility of markets for commodities and commoditised services. The challenge for Procurement professionals and Logisticians is to understand (and plan for) the state of a supply market at a point in time in the future, recognise the associated risks and attempt to mitigate them. Supply markets and … Read More
Use external inputs to your Business Plan with care
About your Business Plan. Forecasts of future demand and supply are full of uncertainties, especially when considering future business conditions that your organisation will need to operate within. To give some authority to the numbers used, models and estimates of the future should be substantiated by assumptions. These limits provide an understanding about the level of acceptance and use of … Read More