Supply chain news

Outsourcing Supply Chain Management: Streamlining Operations for Success In today’s competitive business landscape, the effectiveness and efficiency of your supply chain processes are crucial for staying ahead of your competitors. One strategy that has been gaining popularity among businesses is the outsourcing of some or all supply chain management processes. When you decide to outsource […]

A key driver to managing your costs must be the ability to maintain resilience and the ability to move quickly in times of volatile impact on your supply chain. In this blog post we explore some of the key areas that you should consider when reviewing your supply chain costs.  Product and Lifecycle management Optimise inventory […]

In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) is making significant strides in revolutionising supply chains. AI has been a vital tool for years, enhancing the processing of vast amounts of transactional data. Every time you buy, sell, or move something, a data trail is created. This occurs daily across multiple tiers of supply chains, […]

Chaos to Order: Embracing the Journey of Warehouse Optimisation In the ever-evolving world of supply chain management, warehouses serve as critical hubs, where the efficiency and organisation of operations determine success or stagnation. Despite their pivotal role, warehouses often find themselves trapped in a web of challenges, from spatial limitations to labour inefficiencies, congestion in […]

What Is Inventory? Despite being defined as a current asset1, many treat inventory as a liability as attention is usually focused on keeping stock levels to a bare minimum. Of course, this is nothing new. Often, when we speak of supply chain efficiencies, we really mean efficiencies in inventory (more precisely, inventory reductions). On the […]

Fundamentally, supply chain strategy is required, not only to support overall corporate strategy, but in many cases to also shape strategy by enabling new opportunities for growth and differentiation. By bridging customer needs and supplier capabilities, the supply chain strategy will define a company’s core competencies, core processes, and will choose its suppliers and its […]

January 2024 brings a new year and, with it, some compliance changes for those placing pre-packaged food products on the GB market. January 1 – All pre-packaged foods on the UK market require a UK address on the label As of January 1, new regulations require all pre-packaged foods in Great Britain to include a […]

In the previous installments of this short series, we discussed how robotic systems are ideally suited to repetitive duties in the warehouse environment. Without a doubt, recent advances in automation technologies have enabled robots to improve work productivity and quality, which consequently provides opportunities for warehouse staff to focus on more strategic duties. In this […]

In the wake of Brexit, the UK is poised to introduce new mandatory modifications to food product labelling. Initially postponed from October 2022, the enforcement of these revised labelling standards is now scheduled to go live from 1 Jan 2024. In this article, we explore the updated UK food label requirements for prepacked foods and […]

Plans to migrate to target a ‘living wage’ in Ireland could see a series of increases in the national minimum wage close to €15 per hour by 2026.   Sectors such as retail are expected to face increased cost and margin pressures, and the focus is now on understanding how to schedule resources more effectively to […]