Think like a futurist or you are living in the past!

The world is changing faster than we can keep up with these days.  Almost every day I read about someone building something that for me is totally unexpected or I can see that it is a totally logical progression, but is happening now rather than several years from now as I might have expected.  You now have to think like a futurist just to keep up because the future keeps happening now instead of in the future where it used to belong.

It reminds me of the Red Queen's race in "Through the looking glass ..." by Lewis Carroll

"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else — if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."

"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to

We all want the same thing - more profit!

Unfortunately we don't get more profit by focussing on profit.  More profit comes from having the right products and services that are valuable and desired by the market, letting people know about them and executing their delivery brilliantly.

That last one, brilliant execution, is where Logistics Help comes in.  We have developed a best practice model of supply chain.  Thirty one key best practices that you should be aiming for and that we aim to implement in all our projects.

The last mile and the smashing of the power of centralised distribution

How to do the last mile in the direct to customer supply chain has been bothering people for a while now.  With the rapid growth in online sales, there has been a growing use of the workplace as a delivery point for personal purchases.  Whilst this may be fine for the odd delivery or two, it is obviously unsustainable if everybody is doing it, (it doesn’t scale).

I have always thought that the best person to do the last mile was the customer.  After all we are already used to doing it for our store purchases.  We stop for fuel, pick up food from the local supermarket, go shopping on weekends and carry all the stuff home ourselves.  We are now seeing the fight for commercialisation of the last mile hammering another nail in the coffin of retail stores, playing out as we speak.