The China-US Trade War – Where Next?

Posted on 18 June 2019 by Andrew Ivins

As their ongoing trade war continues to escalate, Chinese-US trade tensions are never far from the headlines. China’s growing Belt and Road Initiative continues to divide and create factions between East and West. In this PARC Insight, Mike Wilson and Katy Huckle address the implications of those factions and the potential global impact of an East/West trade divide.
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Women in Supply Chain, Part 1: Academia – Dr Yingli Wang

Posted on 10 June 2019 by Andrew Ivins

In the first interview of our Women in Supply Chain series, Katy Huckle talks to Dr Yingli Wang about her life and career, from an ice-cream manufacturing plant in China to senior lecturer at a Russell Group university. She discusses her biggest challenges and achievements, along with her key lessons on putting ideas into practice, the importance time management, and why she’s recently taken up karate.
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A Game of Warehousing: PARC’s Guide to Gamification

Posted on 8 May 2019 by Andrew Ivins

PARC Insight: Maria Pia Caraccia and Katy Alice Huckle takes a closer look at the impact of game-playing on warehousing operations.
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Upcoming blog post series – Women in supply chain – watch this space

Posted on 23 April 2019 by Andrew Ivins

Introducing a series celebrating the contribution of women to innovation in supply chain and to highlight how the industry is progressing towards an equal and fair place of work for all.
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Brexit and Trade: It’s even more complicated than we thought

Posted on 26 March 2019 by Andrew Ivins

PARC Interview: Deal or no deal? Well, as it turns out, things are about to get even more complicated either way. In this feature-length PARC interview, Katy Huckle talks to Dr Ludivine Petetin from Cardiff University about the impact of Brexit on supply chains and trade.
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Lea(r)ning by Doing

Posted on 8 March 2019 by Andrew Ivins

PARC Insight: Maria Pia Caraccia and Katy Alice Huckle explore experience-based learning as a way of getting through to the new kids in the classroom.
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Logistics as Geopolitics: China’s One Belt One Road Strategy

Posted on 25 February 2019 by Andrew Ivins

PARC Insight: Professor Peter Wells shares his views on the impact of China’s Belt and Road initiative on global logistics and geopolitical power, and how the two may need to become much more closely interlinked.
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Managing and Mitigating the Costs of Change

Posted on 13 February 2019 by Andrew Ivins

PARC Insight: In this post, Frederic De Wulf, Senior Vice President of Operations at Panalpina Americas, gives us a new perspective on change management, including six ‘change imperatives’ designed to ease the pain of organisational change.
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Process Optimisation and the Circular Economy – can you have one without the other?

Posted on 30 January 2019 by Andrew Ivins

PARC Insight: Is optimisation always sustainable? This short blog post discusses the relationship between process improvement and sustainability
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Logistics Excellence – Applying lean principles to supply chain

Posted on 7 January 2019 by Andrew Ivins

Maria Pia Caraccia gives her thoughts on the value of applying lean tools to complex, global supply chains, particularly value stream mapping.
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