Logistics & Supply Chain
Today’s world is all about speed to market. Retailers, manufacturers and other businesses involved in selling or buying goods and component parts face a litany of challenges when it comes to ensuring supply chain cost efficiency and visibility.
Overcoming these challenges often requires improving demand planning, more sophisticated performance management tools and governance models, having a better understanding of an item’s true ‘landed cost price’, and closer collaboration between stakeholders and building environmental sustainability into supply chains.
Our experts have a wealth of experience of advising UK and international businesses in respect of their logistics, supply chain and procurement needs and can help you to build successful long term partnerships and to manage risk. For example, we can help to structure and negotiate the appropriate use of tools such as continuous improvement, benchmarking, gain share, service bonus and deduction measures, workable governance models, practical remediation measures and helpful exit management planning.
Please also see our business process outsourcing and IT outsourcing pages.
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11 July 2024A crucial element of ensuring the smooth running of an international supply chain is for a business to make sure they are compliant with local customs legislation. If you don’t comply, your goods could become stuck at borders.
Routes to Market Series: Consumer
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Routes to Market Series: Competition
02 July 2024In the second article of this series, Alex Meloy delves into the competition law concerns within supply chains and how they can be mitigated. These are most relevant when working with distributors.
Routes to Market Series: Contracting
01 July 2024In the first article in our Route to Market series, Fleur Chenevix-Trench and Alan Hunt discuss how to create, and contract for, the most effective supply chain.
Routes to Market Series: A to B via the four Cs
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29 April 2020The coronavirus pandemic is a truly universal crisis, with no regard for borders or socio-economic systems. In just a few short weeks, it has caused havoc for businesses around the world, making casualties of household names and showing us that size doesn’t matter after all. For businesses large and small, online and on the high street, swift action is required to limit the potential long-term damage. For franchise businesses, meaningful – and perhaps unprecedented – cooperation between franchisor and franchisee is also vital.
Covid-19 relief for financially troubled suppliers with public contracts
01 April 2020On 20 March 2020 the Cabinet Office published guidance designed to ensure that all public bodies provide support under existing contracts to suppliers of “goods, services and works” who are financially “at risk” as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Implying terms into commercial contracts impacted by COVID-19
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