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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Redefining the Contract in Contract Logistics

Posted on 12 December 2018 by Andrew Ivins

PARC Insight: The contract logistics industry asks you to predict the future and sign for it today: should logistics providers be taking a more flexible approach? Is it time to take the “contract” out of contract logistics?
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Finding the weakest supply chain link

Posted on 15 November 2018 by Andrew Ivins

PARC Insight: Should we be applying Lean principles to logistics? Here, PARC takes a quick look at the time wasted on storing goods.
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Trump, trade wars and China – a personal view

Posted on 5 November 2018 by Andrew Ivins

INTERVIEW: Mike Wilson talks to Professor Aris Syntetos about supply chains, Sino-US trade wars and who will be the ultimate winners in global logistics.
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