Supply chain news

Reflecting on a challenging retail season As retailers reflect on what has been a challenging holiday season, supply chain constraints will feature heavily in their considerations. Planned inventories to support holiday sales and promotions were disrupted.  Supplier shipments were delayed, transportation costs rose, and suppliers looked to recover additional costs.  Labour shortages across the supply […]

Operations Research: A Supply Chain Perspective In this final introduction to OR in the supply chain, we discuss facility location choices, and the common techniques that are used to geographically position plants and DCs, in order to provide demanded services.  These methods are essential to the optimal design of network structures.  They are widely applied, […]

An approach to supply chain metrics and KPIs We are often asked what are the key performance indicators that should be considered when measuring supply chain performance.  Every time you buy, sell, make, or move something in a supply chain, you leave a data trail.  With all this data available, there is nearly an unlimited […]

Last week, three of the PerformanSC team spoke on various supply chain challenges, on Day 1 of the National Manufacturing & Supply Chain Event that took place in the RDS, Dublin. On the Supply Chain and Logistics stage, Lorcan Sheehan, CEO, spoke on the topic of Risk & Resilience in Supply Chain Later that afternoon […]

Lorcan Sheehan, PerformanSC CEO, joined a panel discussion at the National Manufacturing & Supply Chain Event in Dublin last week, on the topic of ‘Opportunities to Build Resilient Supply Chains for the Future’.   Having spoken earlier on the topic of Risk and Resiliance in the Supply Chain, Lorcan was delighted to bring his insights, based on experiences […]

Supply chain forgiveness – short shelf life As a profession that is built around ensuring reliability of supply and predictable levels of cost, we enter the holiday season with many companies finding themselves with constrained supply, increased lead times and costs significantly over plan. While speaking at the National Manufacturing and Supply Chain Conference in […]

Dr. Tony McVeigh, Principal, Operations, spoke at the National Manufacturing and Supply Chain Event in Dublin last week, on ‘A Lean Approach to Optimal Warehouse Design’. Tony’s presentation included topics such as warehouse optimisation, order picking routes, work allocation and product mix.

Lorraine Hagerty, Principal, Client Operations, spoke at last week’s National Manufacturing and Supply Chain event in Dublin, on the topic ‘Tips for Successful Supply Chain Outsourcing’. Lorraine’s talk featured an overview of outsourcing and insourcing, internal change and what to consider for successful outsourcing partnerships.

Lorcan Sheehan, PerformanSC CEO, spoke at the National Manufacturing and Supply Chain event in Dublin last week, on the topic ‘Risk and Resilience in Supply Chain’. Lorcan discussed aspects such as the changing shape of risk management in supply chain, and also spoke of the impact Covid-19 had on supply chains around the world.

Consolidated Service Centres perform well in pandemic In our 2021 survey of Health Systems supply chain leaders, 100% of respondents that operated a CSC felt that having that internal capability made them more successful.  In looking at the performance of stakeholders within the supply chain, 94% believed that internal supply chain teams performed well or […]