Supply chain news

Incoterms® 2020 Incoterms are a set of rules published by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). They are designed to clearly communicate how tasks, costs, and risks, which are associated with the international transports of goods, are allocated between sellers and buyers. It is important to have clarity on where responsibility and risk transfers, before […]

Designing Supply Chains for Circular For generations, we have operated supply chains that extract materials from nature, in order to create products that shipped to customers.  What customers did with those products and what happened after use, was hardly a consideration for supply chain teams.  Customers just disposed of their products at end of life […]

Brexit – UK implementation of inbound checks on Products of Animal Origin (POAO) When the Brexit transition period ended on the 31st December 2020, the EU implemented full customs checks on imports from Great Britain, including requirements for health certificates and pre-notification on shipments of products of animal origin (POAO). The UK decided to take […]

Inventory optimisation – how much inventory should I hold? Inventory provides a necessary buffer in the supply chain to meet the expected demand for product, during the expected lead time to replenish. This is true at a raw material, component, and finished goods levels. The inventory held has a critical impact on customer service, warehouse […]

Managing through supply chain challenges As the performance of vaccine supply chains receives global political attention, many of us recognise the pressures to perform in mission-critical supply chain situations. The heroic efforts to develop and bring to market vaccines in less than a year can be forgotten if the final production and distribution plans fall […]

Early Insights from Health Systems Survey Since 2012, PerformanSC, in conjunction with Jamie Kowalski Consulting LLC, have published a series of reports on Health System supply chains, based on inputs from their supply chain leaders.    Due to the pandemic, we pushed the research phase of the 2020 report out to last November / December and […]

Re-emergence of Resilience On March 11th, 2011 – just 10 years ago – a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck just 231 miles northeast of Tokyo. The resulting tsunami triggered a sequence of events causing significant loss of life, damage to a nuclear reactor in Fukushima, and months of disruption to the automotive and other industries that […]

eCommerce – beyond the clickGetting your supply chain to deliver on your customer promises When customers click the buy button on your ecommerce store, the process of delivering on your customer promise begins.   Far from being the end of the process, what happens next may make or break that new relationship. Nothing says I want […]

Do we need to talk about returns? Following on from peak retail season, is peak returns season.   With the added shift to online purchases during 2020, it is likely that we will see eCommerce returns volumes reach new levels this month. UPS predicted that it would receive 1.75M returns parcels per day in the first […]

A new customs and trade reality for the UK and Europe On 31st December, 2020,  Great Britain left the European Customs Union.  For the first time since 1993, shipments between Great Britain and the EU require customs paperwork.  Certain products require health certificates, and are also subject to additional inspections and checks. Three weeks into […]