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Productivity, Are We Giving Ourselves the Complete Picture?
Claire Walters Unipart Group
Productivity has always been important but it is becoming increasingly so.
Achieving and setting productivity standards underpins cost budgets, whilst also informing the resource levels needed to reach service levels.
A miscalculation will nearly always have a consequence, in this scenario operations either overspend or under deliver and neither are palatable. Get it right consistently and it becomes a competitive advantage.
Productivity in warehouses is essentially all about people. Attracting and retaining staff is becoming a real challenge for operators and singularly relying on short term resource to deliver peak is now unsafe. Many businesses are increasing their core headcount to address this challenge, absorbing the additional cost, and indeed many are already planning for the Christmas peak ahead.
It is easy to see the attraction of investing in automation when faced with th
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Manage your transports more efficiently: a how-to guide for controlling large shipping volumes at bustling distribution hubs
Transports need to keep moving. But all too often, they end up stuck in traffic. That’s when time slots close, delivery deadlines are missed – and customers lose patience. Logistics hubs are flashpoints for this type of negative chain reaction: The concentration of events to be managed at such hot spots >>
Events
26
Mar
2019
Cross Functional Teams - A Ministry of Justice Case Study (CIPS Award Winner)
Presentation to share the learnings of the Language Services contract from a commercial point of view, further to the MoJ team winning the 2018 CIPS award for Best Cross Functional Teamwork Project.
Throughout the first year of the new suite of language services contracts, the Operational a ...
Leeds
28
Mar
2019
You need never worry about low value spend again
Ed Cross MD of Odesma, a leading management consultancy, demonstrates how to effectively manage low value spend. Ed will give a master class in deploying state of the art tools, and techniques, to effectively manage and take cost out of your low value spend.
This event is available to CIPS members and ...
Shepperton
28
Mar
2019
The RNLI: Saving lives at Sea & Procurement Transformation
The RNLI Is aiming to reduce domestic drowning by 50% and have a significant impact on drowning globally by 2024 - It is currently transforming Procurement to Save Lives at Sea.
The event will explain the Vision, goals and strategy of the RNLI; the evolution over recent years, share some surprising stats with yo ...
London
28
Mar
2019
Behavioural Procurement & AGM
The CIPS East Anglia Branch is delighted to have David Loseby, an experienced CPO, CIPS Fellow, previous CIPS Congress Representative for the North of England region and now appointed to the CIPS Global Board of Trustees, discusses what is meant by ‘Behavioural Procurement’.
This event is ...
With increasing regulation & customer service expectations, utilities companies are redirecting their focus to improve end-to-end supply chain performance.
As part of our drive to improve asset utilisation and up-time, Unipart Logistics has been at the forefront facilitating companies improved bus...
Almost 85 percent of organisations using big data expect it to dramatically alter the way they do business. Let’s look at the impact of big data on logistics. Data is all around us. When we leave the house in th...
Tudor Rose International is Europe’s leading export market management company specialising in building brands around the world. In business for nearly 30 years, the innovative company mastered an ambitious IT mo...
In this research in progress paper, we seek to understand how pervasive use of ICT based platform such as electronic marketplaces influences the evolution of novel inter-organizational relationship. We focus on selling a...
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