Tuesday 17 July 2012

The Growing World of Online Supply Chain

Online retail sales were only 5% of all retail sales in 2011 according to NAB  and Australia lags behind the rest of the world, (which is unusual for us). The online retail (and online B2B) market is set to grow rapidly over the next few years and whole new supply chains are going to be established and old ones are going to die (or shrink or adapt) as the traditional retail shop supply chain

Thursday 12 July 2012

Logistics consulting is free!

In 1979 Philip Crosby published his seminal book Quality is Free to break the perception in America at the time that adding quality to manufactured goods was a costly and unnecessary expense. Crosby helped to redefine what quality meant and helped to launch the revolution in quality management that is now an accepted part of almost every aspect of business operations now.

Former CEO of Avis, Robert Townsend said that a business consultant was someone who borrows your watch and tells you what time it is and then walks