The past two years have underscored how quickly normal life can be upended. While the covid-19 pandemic will hopefully be the most significant event of its kind in our lifetimes, these kinds of sudden upheavals are not new – think the 2011 tsunami, foot and mouth disease or swine flu – and will continue to …
When optimising various business verticals, the SCOR – supply chain operations reference – model, is vital. It’s a way of analysing and improving systems that covers five different areas: plan, source, make, deliver and return. Most of the time that businesses use this system to reduce costs, they focus on the downstream aspects, forgetting there’s …
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By this point, everyone’s heard of Industry 4.0. Governments around the world have been introducing roadmaps to take their manufacturing sectors to the next level, with a vision of manual operations enhanced by the latest smart technologies. This, it is believed, will lead to more connected operations with heightened efficiency and output, in turn boosting …
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There’s been a lot of talk about what digitalisation is over recent years – and how it is upending every industry from e-commerce to manufacturing. Digitalisation, for the unaware, is simply the process of leveraging digital tools to streamline and improve your operations, and perhaps even provide new revenue opportunities. However, this first relies on …
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