I was intrigued to learn that Lourens Schouwink is an amateur magician in his spare time.
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The past year has seen rapid change in company supply chains. A year ago, the recession meant that organisations were having to deal with suppliers going out of business.
Sometimes research throws up a fact that just stops you in your tracks. And that happened to me with Oracle’s study “Supply Chain Information: The Weakest Link?” which discovered that supply chain managers spend, on average 48 per cent of their time
Last month 70 global companies and 27 European business associations, all members of CSR Europe, got together in Brussels to launch Enterprise 2020 – an initiative designed to shape the business contribution to the European Union’s Europe 2020 strategy
As I write, the Prime Minister is involved in meetings of Cobra, the government’s emergency planning committee, to formulate a response to the discovery of a bomb on an aircraft at East Midlands airport.
Logistics is of strategic importance in the move towards a low-carbon economy. That’s a key conclusion of a new report from Deutsche Post DHL entitled: “Delivering tomorrow – towards sustainable logistics”. It’s also a statement that can be taken two ways
The sale of TM Logistics to Bibby Distribution has put the spotlight on the specialist logistics players. But what is the attraction? Malory Davies looks at how they compete against their bigger rivals.
All being well, we can expect to see National Skills Academy Logistics opening its doors later next year.
Last year a report by Accenture, The sustainable supply chain, argued that organisations that take the lead in developing innovative supply chain strategies and then proactively embed sustainability within their operations will most likely stay ahead
It’s interesting to see how corporate attention to environmental matters can have a very real impact on the way companies drive efficiency in their supply chains.
