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Articles exploring supply chain management issues and how  UK SMEs can best optimise processes to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction.

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SMEs will bear brunt of supply chain crisis until 2023

Small businesses will have to cope with supply chain problems, worker shortages and rising inflation until at least 2023, MPs are told

Export & Import

How to minimise gaps in your supply chain post Brexit

5 tips to ensure stock from European suppliers continues to flow as uninterrupted as possible now that Britain has left the EU

Business management

Small businesses and their role in efficient supply chains – Q&A with Logmore CEO Janne Juhala

Logmore CEO, Janne Juhala, answers key questions about small businesses and how they can handle ever-changing supply chains.

Business management

How small businesses can help in the fight against modern slavery

Here are the steps small businesses can take to protect their reputation and play an important role in the fight against modern slavery.

Export & Import

Supply chain friction costs businesses 6,500 hours a year

New study reveals UK businesses are wasting time and money handling the payment process through supply chain friction.

News

Are EU supply chains strong enough to support SME confidence?

SMEs still confident in growth despite Brexit but supply chains are not strong enough to support them through the next few years.

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Supermarket fragility comes at a high price to the supply chain

Research shows that the UK food retail sector is on the mend, with falling levels of financial distress despite increased stress in supply chains.

Export & Import

Five things small businesses can learn from Santa’s supply chain

In this piece, Justin O’Sullivan talks about how small businesses should consider the business acumen of the man behind the presents – Santa.

News

Two thirds of small companies unprepared for supply chain failure

A majority of SMEs lack a risk mitigation strategy in the event of a logistics crisis.

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Government to weigh in on late payment and supply chain bullying

The Federation of Small Businesses is assembling an influential cross-party group of MPs to identify possible solutions to the deterioration of payment practices in the UK.

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Concern raised over supply chain bullying of small businesses

Small businesses are being subjected to a 'serious deterioration of payment practices', putting their cash flow under threat, according to a prominent lobbying group.

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