Course: Supply Chains in Practice: How Things Get to You

A supply chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Increasingly that weakness may not be a physical, but the point in the chain most vulnerable to a cyber-attack. …

Do you have to be good at numbers to use supply chain analytics tools? As he explains in the video, Andy Birtwistle (Supply Chain Director, Concentra) believes not. The way …

Harnessing the Internet of Things (IoT) to enable a data driven approach, has enabled Costa Express to increase customer satisfaction, improve delivery performance whilst growing their business 6-fold in 5 …

‘We have received things like tuna fish and mayonnaise. What good are those things for us? We need grains, salt and sugar.’ Nepal, Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat (May, 2015). …

A low cost business model that maintains strategic alignment is arguable at the centre of Aldi’s and Lidl’s success. In September 2015 continuing strong sales saw Aldi and Lidl achieve …

As you sit down to enjoy your Christmas dinner, spare a thought for those who work in seasonal supply chains who have already started planning Christmas for the following year. …

Whilst some construction activities are a one-off, many publicly funded construction activities are repetitive in nature and benefit from an injection of supply chain thinking. Construction was not an area …

How do others see you? Do they see you as someone who likes a planned or orderly way of life, or someone who prefers flexibility and spontaneity? We are all …

A world where turbulence is the new normal, requires a different way of thinking about supply chain design. Reflecting on the way that the global environment has changed over the …

Picking up on the questions posed in the previous step. Over the years there has been a surprisingly consistent response from the classes I teach, regardless of their background (e.g. …

Demand for products and services ultimately drives supply chains. As the demand pattern for products varies, so does the supply chain Take a simple example like grocery shopping. Depending on …

Reflecting on the performance of companies post Global Economic Crisis (GEC) I wondered how some companies had managed to thrive during a period of extreme business certainty. Much of my …

Planning is essential to ensure that our ‘wishes’ become reality at a price we can afford, as a ‘goal without a plan is just a wish’. One of the things …

Please return here at the start of Week 2 for the round-up video for Week 1. Week 1, focused on the topic of ‘Just the tip of the iceberg: What …

Thank you for completing the first week of the course. I hope you found it informative and it has achieved its objective of starting to get you to think about …