Visibility in supply chains

Posted on 6 Jul 2012 by The Manufacturer

Germany is often held up as an exemplar when it comes to European manufacturing and attendees at TM’s recent Supply Chain Excellence Dinner agreed that its approach to having joined up supply chains is key to its unusually strong industrial base. Responding to this suggestion, Nick Lowe, MD of third party logistics provider, Dachser UK, says that the approach of German companies to leveraging technology plays an important part in its resilience.

Nick Lowe, MD, Dachser UK
“I do think that German company’s make higher demands on our technology than UK firms. They leverage the analytics and reporting more proactively,” observes Mr Lowe. “Of course Dachser itself is a German organisation and all of our tracking systems are designed in Germany.” Lowe insists…

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