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Building a customer-centric supply chain
Business, Chris Catto-Smith, Published on 02/12/2015
» One of the bigger challenges I face in supply chain consulting is changing the attitude of decision-makers from being adversarial to collaborative in their relationships with trading partners and service providers. It's like swimming against the current of a river in which hard bargaining and squeezing is ingrained in Asian business DNA. This is fortunate in a way, because if business executives could figure out for themselves that collaboration can bring huge savings in total supply chain costs, I would be out of a job.
Honey, I shrank the warehouse
Business, Chris Catto-Smith, Published on 25/02/2015
» The main concern of nearly every logistics consultant is if companies were any smarter at managing their inventories, they would not need us. Put another way, there is no greater source of consulting opportunities than surplus inventory, and (much to my delight) this issue extends across nearly all industries and their multiple supply chains.