Changing Perceptions: Attracting Young Talent Into Logistics

whitePaper | January 23, 2023

Optimise your retail business in turbulent times In this guide we explore how to shape a validated and prioritised roadmap for business optimisation. You’ll also gain insights into how retail organisations like Boohoo Group and a leading UK supermarket are ensuring early and lasting value from their optimisation initiatives.

whitePaper | April 1, 2022

The demands of running global supply chains are more challenging than ever. Cargo transportation and logistics have always been complex, but now the industry must also manage key market trends: Global transport disruptions caused by pandemics, earthquakes and other natural disasters, accidents, geopolitics, cyberattacks, and demand peaks create severe supply chain congestions at global and local level.

whitePaper | February 10, 2022

In logistics operations, the commitment to safety is all too often like the half-hearted embrace we give to an older aunt we occasionally see at family gatherings. We do it because we have to and it’s expected. But we’re not giving safety the full-on bear hug it deserves.

whitePaper | May 17, 2022

Effectively managing the delivery of ore through the “pit-to-port operations” from the mining pit, through the plant, to the port where it is loaded onto a ship is a difficult task. It involves the management of discrete teams from the mining operation, plant operations, loading hauling, rail, port operations, marketing, and shipping. Most of these teams are driven by key performance indicators (KPIs) that focus on the group's performance that in some cases is not aligned to the overall efficient pit-to-port operation. For instance, the objective of minimising rehandling cost at the run of mine (ROM) could impact final product quality when loaded onto a ship. For efficient and effective pit-to-port operations it is important to effectively balance the trade-off between each groups operations to maximise profit whilst minimising risk.

whitePaper | May 20, 2022

The outbreak of COVID-19 has caused a lot of disruptions to society with millions of deaths, high unemployment levels, and exhausted businesses. The entire world is now trying to recover from the eects of the pandemic. Today, the way of life is dierent than what it has been, with limited travel, quarantines, closed oces, as well as supply chain and logistics disorders.

whitePaper | November 1, 2022

The need to improve the integration of planning and transport is certainly not a new issue, but numerous attempts to encourage their incorporation have seen limited progress. The UK needs developments that embed sustainabletransport from the outset, not for it to be an afterthought.