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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.
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Will there be sufficient logistics skills to meet region's future demand?
Business, Chris Catto-Smith, Published on 11/03/2015
» It is coming up to 20 years since I arrived in Asia, and for most of that time I have worked in the niche professional field of logistics and supply chain consulting. Today there are many logistics professionals employed by large companies in functional roles ranging from procurement and transport to warehousing and demand management, but very few consultants.
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Developing sustainable logistics infrastructure
Business, Chris Catto-Smith, Published on 19/11/2014
» Thailand is the second-largest economy in Southeast Asia after Indonesia, but low efficiency in its logistics systems contributes to relatively high logistics costs in relation to GDP. This is in part a result of the industrial structure, geographical dispersal of industrial centres, widely spread population centres and logistics infrastructure overfocused on road transport. Successive Thai governments have all taken proactive measures to improve logistics costs in relation to GDP, but ongoing improvement in logistics efficiency is critical for the sustainable development of the economy.
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Reducing Road Deaths through a Chain of Responsibility
Business, Chris Catto-Smith, Published on 10/09/2014
» The road crash epidemic has plagued Thailand for decades and is a major cause of deaths, supply chain interruption and economic damage. Every year, about 13,000 people lose their lives on the roads, with an uncountable number ending up in hospital instead of at their destination. The Thailand Accident Research Centre estimated the economic losses from road accidents at 232 billion baht per year or 2.8% of GDP.
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When work becomes an adventure
Business, Chris Catto-Smith, Published on 21/05/2014
» Those of us who have lived and worked in Southeast Asia for any length of time have become used to the volatility and unpredictability of normal life. Maintaining sustainable business operations can also be a challenge.
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Supply chain smile ... or ... Supply chain dangerous
Business, Chris Catto-Smith, Published on 10/04/2013
» It's always important to know your odds when dealing with new business partners, ventures or trading relationships. In fact there are many parallels with the story lines of many famous Bangkok "noir" novels that can make the supply chain business environment quite exciting _ if not one of constant intrigue and challenge.
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Taking steps to ensure food chain connectivity
Business, Chris Catto-Smith, Published on 15/02/2012
» Connectivity within supply chains is not easy to achieve, especially as competitiveness in developing and less developed countries may be weak. This constraint also affects food chains where farmers face many challenges in improving their competitiveness and developing mutually beneficial linkages from suppliers of raw materials through each stage of production to retail outlets and ultimately to buyers and end consumers. Understanding the requirements of each of the different players and taking a longer-term approach to creating and nurturing strong partnerships can provide the key to unlocking these challenges.
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Rethinking Security : Supply chains in crisis
Business, Chris Catto-Smith, Published on 04/04/2012
» Supply chains are affected by disruptions such as terrorist attacks, natural disasters and logistics failures. This has resulted in significant focus being directed into developing new capabilities such as supply chain risk management, supply chain security and disaster response. Last Saturday in southern Thailand, a series of car bombs went off, destroying shops and vehicles, engulfing buildings in flame and smoke and sending panicked shoppers and tourists fleeing.
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