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A Game of Warehousing: PARC’s Guide to Gamification

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.

Upcoming blog post series – Women in supply chain – watch this space

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.

Brexit and Trade: It’s even more complicated than we thought

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.

Lea(r)ning by Doing

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.

Logistics as Geopolitics: China’s One Belt One Road Strategy

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.

Managing and Mitigating the Costs of Change

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.

Process Optimisation and the Circular Economy – can you have one without the other?

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

Logistics Excellence – Applying lean principles to supply chain

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.

Redefining the Contract in Contract Logistics

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?

Finding the weakest supply chain link

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.