Supply Chains

Disruptions to Global Supply Chains, Sustainability, and the Inventory Time Bomb

Posted on 30 May 2022 by Christopher Burns

Sometime during 2018, before the Covid pandemic took over the world, Professor Aris Syntetos interviewed Professor Mike Wilson, the two Directors of the PARC Institute - an industry and academic partnership which researches global supply chains and their performance. Both of them were in agreement and were already predicting that supply chains were under threat and that a rethink on global supply chains was needed.

Sustainability is Driving New Business Dynamics – Repurposing and Connected Collaboration Across Supply Chains

Posted on 5 August 2021 by Christopher Burns

Sustainability has inevitably risen to the top of the agenda when we talk about supply chains. Everywhere, we read and hear about de-carbonisation, carbon neutrality, carbon trade taxes, carbon emissions, carbon footprint and it is all rightly welcomed in the effort to preserve our planet.

If they haven’t already, the coronavirus will force companies to re-think their elongated supply chain.

Posted on 27 March 2020 by Andrew Ivins

The devastating effects of the Coronavirus on World Economies is obvious, but Professor Mike Wilson argues it is another illustration that elongated supply chains are vulnerable.

The A-to-Z that could shape future supply chains

Posted on 11 November 2019 by Andrew Ivins

In this PARC Insight, PARC blog competition winner Diego Bermudez Bermejo outlines some of the most important trends that are influencing the future of supply chains

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.

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

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.