Keeping an eye on the costs of a business makes good financial sense. But it stops making sense when the ‘big picture’ is sacrificed for perceived gains in the short term. It’s ‘managing with a long term view’ that makes collaboration work....
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The day-to-day. It can get in the way of having a proper long-term strategy – and you have that little voice in your head saying “There must be a better way of doing this…but I don’t have time to look!”....
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Occasionally things go wrong and not all the correct materials are ordered – and a single missing item can stop an entire possession.
This was exactly the case with Siemen’s Weaver to Wavertree project in the run-up to Christmas 2018 when it was found that a design error meant that an extra 3 sta...
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How a strong supply base is essential to collaborating at the “sharp end”
Dave Tilmouth on 14 November 2019 15:08:13
Tags:
Supply Chain
Supply Chain Management
Value - Increased Performance
Value - Innovation
Value - Optimised Cost
Your maintenance, project or renewal is planned to ensure that there is minimum impact on the availability of the track whilst managing risk and costs.
And once all the materials are ordered, you can be confident that they will arrive on time - because your supplier has said they will. But there ...
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