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On 28th June, students from the LSCMS Republic Polytechnic Chapter ventured to the Jurong Fishery Port to discover the start of the seafood supply chain and understand how fish and other seafood get from the sea to our plates.
We would like to invite our members and friends for an evening of discussion with one of the premier personalities in Logistics in Asia today, Stuart Dickinson on the 10th July @6pm. Having recently joined leading executive recruiter, Logistics Recruitment in the role of Strategic Business Development Manager, Stuart possesses an extensive background in supply chain, logistics, sport and policing.
His operational and management experience in the transport, logistics and supply chain fields includes a successful background in developing and managing executive business relationships within one of Australia’s tier one logistics and transport operators.
An International rugby referee, and a bestselling author on the game, Stuart’s involvement for a long period of time at the highest levels of rugby shows a proven ability to maintain the highest standards of professionalism as well as the ability to manage change and make decisions under extreme pressure.
“Supply Chain is all about detail and discipline and Stuart brings these qualities to our business at the highest level,” Kim Winter, Group Managing Director, Logistics Recruitment.
Stuart is a specialist across the spectrum of customer satisfaction, with a passion for developing and maintaining high quality long term relationships and outcomes for clients and candidates.
So joins us for this great opportunity to meet Stuart, and to hear his thoughts and opinions on the opportunities in international supply chain management today. In the comfortable setting of the Masonic Club on Coleman Street, our guests will also enjoy refreshments in the spirit of our relaxed & informal theme.
Finger Foods, Beer and Soft Drinks will be available FREE. Please email Edmund Lee at elee@lscms.org to reserve a place.
Event Summary
Event: Industry Pub Night
Date: 10th July
Time: 5.30pm
Venue: Masonic Club on Coleman Street (behind Central Fire Station)
We are delighted to advise that the 6th ASEAN Ports and Shipping 2008 Viet Nam will take place in Ho Chi Minh city on Thursday 5 and Friday 6 June 2008.
Viet Nam is today the fastest growing economy in the South East Asia.
This international transportation gathering will be one of the opportunities to promote Viet Nam,regional shipping and transport logistic to foreign investment and Ho Chi Minh city showcase as a cultural, tourism and conference destination.
The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society is pleased to be a supporting organisation of this event.
For more information, visit the event website, or view the Conference Programme (PDF).
The concept of Combined Distribution Networks (CDN’s) is fairly easy to comprehend. A basic and simple definition would be:
“A CDN is the combination of the supply networks of different companies in the Supply Chain to achieve increased efficiencies and effectiveness.”
Collaboration of this nature is not unheard of and can be considered merely an extension of the theory of Supply Chain collaboration. There exists some real world examples in support of such implementation. The challenge in implementing an effective CDN would be between companies that would otherwise be competitors. The potential for recognizing increased efficiencies and effectiveness in overall performance in individual companies who implement CDN’s of this nature is staggering.
Current Supply Chain collaborative techniques allow growing businesses to reduce costs and improve customer service. In a Combined Distribution Network, detailed analysis of companies SKU-level product information is conducted over a period of time. This data will allow us to clearly understand the current transportation and warehousing structure as well as to establish an accurate cost baseline by which all optimization would be evaluated.
Purchasing, Inventory Management and Technology requirements could also be targets for a hybrid of the CDN theory.
Once the historical network baselines are developed, the analysis phase of the CDN can start by first scrutinizing the product flows, then using both the production information as well as customer consumption to determine the appropriate placement of warehouses and the transport network.
All models in the CDN will balance real world operational constraints put in place by companies involved in the CDN model with the need to service a majority of customers within a specified time frame, all whilst factoring in current market conditions for transportation rates into and out of each distribution market.
The further development and implementation of a CDN (ideally amongst competitors) will enable companies to optimize customer service whilst at the same time improve shareholder and stakeholder value.
After a complete and thorough analysis has been completed, a comprehensive RFQ can be built and 3PL’s with the capability to meet both or a part of the requirements invited to bid.
The final and perhaps most important reason why CDN’s should be further explored is the positive impact on the environment. Much has been done and needs to be done in the area of reducing the impact our Supply Chains have on the environment. The carbon footprint of individual products, from point of supply, to point of consumption are already being measured. CDN’s is one of the many ways these can be reduced.
From preliminary discussions with Supply Chain practitioners, there are a number of reasons why people feel CDN’s will not work. The main hurdle it would seem is the need to get stakeholders to overcome the common mindset that competitors should be treated as the enemy.
By Raymon Krishnan
20/02/2008
The Logistics and Supply Chain Management Society has achieved an industry’s first! It’s training partner, The Turning Point Business School, has been appointed as the ‘Program Manager’, the first Approved Training Organisation in Logistics Training with the Singapore Workforce Development Agency to conduct the ‘Workforce Skills Qualification’ or WSQ in Logistics.
By achieving the ‘Program Manager’ status, it allows the school to train individuals; both employed and unemployed, with minimal charges. On top of this, Training Allowance will also be disbursed to individuals or companies upon successful completion of their modules.
For Immediate Release December 2007
The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society (LSCMS), based in Singapore, announced today that they have partnered with www.supplychainjobz.com to add additional value to the members services.
Prof. Raymon Krishnan, President of the Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society sees the new partnership with SupplyChainJobz as yet another benefit to its Members and the industry.
“In 2007, LSCMS Members have had access to more than S$160,000.00 in benefits. This was given in the way of grants, scholarships, training opportunities and other benefits,” Prof Krishnan said.
“In 2008, the Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society intend to increase this amount further and our partnership with SupplyChainJobz will result in not only giving our Members access to jobs in Singapore and the region, but also the ability for Members to post jobs on SupplyChainJobz at significant discounts will add to that goal,”
“LSCMS have always encouraged greater collaboration in our industry and leveraging off the strengths of leading organisations like SupplyChainJobz is just one way to achieve this.” Prof. Krishnan said.
According to Phillip Parsons, Director of SupplyChainJobz, the partnership with LSCMS not only includes their new job board but also training and education.
“We have embarked on a training and education partnership with LSCMS which allows LSCMS members to have access to career resources, tools and information including an on-line training portal where users can search, review and book training all via the Internet,” Mr Parsons said.
“The LSCMS partnership is an exciting opportunity for SupplyChainJobz to expand its capabilities in the Supply Chain & Logistics careers sector and to provide additional benefits to a traditional job board.”
To find out more log on to www.lscms.org today.
…ENDS…
For further information please contact:
Phillip Parsons
Director
SupplyChainJobz
PH: 61 (0) 439 488 780
phil@supplychainjobz.com
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