Industry experts have warned that the future of supply chains will be bleak, unless businesses act now. Speaking at SCALA’s 20th Annual Supply Chain Debate, senior industry figures highlighted the need for great change over the coming decade, as the industry faces new challenges and the pressure to reach net zero targets mounts. Almost 100 […]
Our Supply Chain Best Practice and Benchmarking Forums in the Grocery and Home Appliance / Homeware sectors have been running for many years and are still growing – new members are always welcome! At our last meeting of the Home Appliance group, discussion topics included:– Supply Chain resilience as businesses recover from the impact of
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Last weekend, SCALA’s own Phil Reuben delivered a seminal presentation on Negotiation Practices in Suzhou to a large audience. Bringing his own unique style of presenting to China, he spoke the congregation in Suzhou on the subject “Negotiation – Strategy, Tactics, and Everything Else.” Phil’s detailed teachings (having had a large amount of experience in the appliance industry) and
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This year’s debate was opened by SCALA Executive Director Dave Howorth with Keith Newton also of the CILT International chairing the debate discussion. Edward Osborne, from Waitrose, discussed the increasing demands being placed on internal supply chains and distribution networks. Black Friday produced a 5 units per second demand on the process! Connecting with customers
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Following on from the news a few weeks ago concerning our SCALA CHINA joint venture, our official LinkedIn for the project is now live at https://lnkd.in/gnJn995. Make sure you follow to keep up to date with everything that’s happening, especially aspects such as Best Practice and automotive industry updates. You can also follow us on
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John Perry and Phil Reuben have just returned from a highly successful visit to China and meetings with almost 60 Automotive Suppliers and Automotive Manufacturers plus a number of Electric Products manufacturers. John and Phil were also guests at a conference of 1000 Logistics professionals in Suzhou. SCALA are now delighted to announce their partnership
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SCALA no longer run the fresh connection as a UK competition. However SCALA does provide independent objective expertise in supply chain strategy and the “end to end” management of total supply chains. please click here UPDATE AB World Foods have won the UK final and will be heading over to Miami, FL, USA to compete
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The UK is one of the world’s most globalised economies and has been the fastest growing member of the G7 for the past three years and, partly as a result, we are at the forefront of technological and market changes in addition to shifts within logistics networks. Our world-class scientific base means the UK will be at the forefront of
SCALA is leading the way on Demand Driven Supply Chains after flying in global thought leader Carol Ptak for a seminar in London. The US co-founder of the Demand Driven Institute was the star speaker at SCALA’s first ever Directors’ Briefing event. Industry executives were told to stop using forecasts to drive their operations and
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SCALA is stepping up its efforts to promote Demand Driven supply chain planning in the UK by holding its first CDDP training course. The Demand Driven approach is the latest evolution in end-to-end supply chain management and is rapidly emerging as ‘best practice’ to handle today’s more volatile, complex and service-oriented supply and manufacturing scenarios.
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