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Oliver Chapman On UK Plans To Join CPTTP As Both Malaysia & Chile Join The Block
Oliver Chapman, CEO of the No.1 fastest growing company in the UK 2022 - FT1000, and supply chain experts OCI, comments on the latest news regarding...
ChatGPT Might Not Transform The Supply Chain, But AI Products This Year Might
Oliver Chapman, CEO of supply chain specialists OCI, comments on how AI can help transform the supply chain in the very near future. “‘Knowledge...
10 Things To Look Out For With The Supply Chain In 2023 & Beyond
Oliver Chapman, CEO of the UK's No1 fastest-growing company 2022, and supply chain specialist OCI, outlives ten supply-chain trends to look out for...
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund’s move highlights importance of auditing the supply chain
Oliver Chapman, CEO of supply chain specialist OCI and the No.1 fastest growing company in the UK, comments on the move by the world’s largest...
Chinese crisis highlights the need to audit the supply chain and eliminate fragility
Continued lockdowns in China, protests and now apparent crackdowns highlight an important truth concerning the supply chain. You need to know the...
7 Key Benefits of Commercial Process Outsourcing | What Is CPO?
It’s no secret that business owners always look for ways to streamline processes and increase efficiency (while keeping costs down, of course). One...
Economic Fallout Of The Ukraine Invasion | The Solution Is In The Supply Chain
As we approach 6 months since the initial invasion of Ukraine, the economic fallout continues to be felt around the world. The solution lies in the...
Supply chain reform can save the economy from depression, says boss of OCI, the UK’s No.1 fastest-growing company
The boss of supply chain specialist warns of further economic turmoil but says supply chain reform can turn the economy around. "The supply...
China’s Economic Slowdown; What Does This Mean For The Global Economy and Supply Chains?
China, the world’s second-biggest economy, is in trouble. Economic growth has slowed considerably in the second quarter of 2022, according to...
The Reshoring of Global Supply Chains
Our supply chains have not always been the complex, globalised networks we know today. In the 1990’s, low labour costs and a growth in...
How To Embed ESG Initiatives Into Your Business
Investors, governments, communities and businesses are coming to the realisation that environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are not...
How Rising Fuel Prices are Impacting Different Stakeholders
Fuel prices have reached record highs in the UK this year. In June, petrol prices grew by 18.1 pence - the greatest increase since records...
How Digital Technologies Are Being Harnessed in Global Supply Chains Today
Supply chains have become increasingly digitilised in recent years. More and more companies are seeing the vast benefits of embracing digital...
Supply Chain Resilience & Redundancy | Optimising Your Supply Chain
Supply chains are important. Despite this, supply chains tend to be overlooked and are often taken for granted. But as with many cases, businesses...
The Role of Cloud Computing In Supply Chains
The cloud plays an integral role in supply chains today. It provides cutting-edge technologies that enable companies of all sizes and scales to...
Growing Business Sustainability Trends
Over the past few years, sustainability has become one of the biggest talking points in the business world. Increasingly, prominent and highly...
Green Data in Supply Chains
The 2020s - termed the ‘decade of action’ by the U.N. - is the age of climate change. With every new year comes a rapidly-growing awareness that it...
Supply chain specialists OCI is the No. 1 fastest-growing company in the UK
As the supply chain becomes the key to economic recovery, OCI, a supply chain specialist, is ranked as No.1 fastest-growing company in the UK, and...
Assessing The Supply Chain
In today’s fast-moving, digital-focused economy, the most successful organisations are transforming their supply chains to better reflect their...
Sustainability in 2022: What Will Sustainability Look Like for Businesses in the New Year?
As we leave 2021 behind, the acceleration of commitments to ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) and sustainability continues. It is...
Semiconductor shortages emphasise the need for supply chain diversification and resilience
The reliance on semiconductors is increasingly present across a range of industries, and, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a shortage of...
China’s resurgence of the epidemic: further strains on global trade and China ordered into lockdown
As China faces its most challenging outbreak since the coronavirus first emerged in November 2019, the authorities are now ordering mass testing and...
How oil majors are deploying their resources in a bid to move towards renewable energy production
Overview Renewable energy is expected to account for 90% of new power generation post pandemic and by 2040 it is projected that it will provide 14%...
Post Pandemic Supply Chain Collaboration
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed several inefficiencies within global supply chains, in particular the transportation and logistics of goods since...
What is a Procurement partner?
COVID-19 has demanded that firms take a long hard look at their global supply chain models and assess the vulnerabilities that exist. Doing so has...
Internal Auditing within Supply Chains
An audit is a process of examining a company’s existing extended supply chain. Part of the audit procedure involves benchmarking the processes that...
How can supply chains be more secure?
Supply chain security is a crucial part of supply chain management that focuses on minimizing risk for the supply chain, logistics and...
Women in Business
The trend of hiring more women for leadership positions is increasing with reports claiming that there are now more women running Fortune 500...
Large Corporations Seek To Diversify From Greensill After Major Collapse
On Monday 1st March, it was announced that Greensill Capital would collapse into administration after encountering severe financial difficulties...
OCI distributes masks produced by Strata and Honeywell
Honeywell is an American publicly traded conglomerate based in North Carolina, that primarily operates in four areas; aerospace, building...
The EU/AstraZeneca Dispute
The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is a vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca. The vaccine was approved for use in the UK on 30th...
Changes in Pharma Licensing – Post Brexit
The UK is one of the world's leading innovators for medical advancements and exporters of pharmaceuticals. In 2015, it was reported that the UK life...
How OCI assesses risk in the supply chain
Supply chain risk is defined as the probability of an incident occurring with inbound supply, whether it is individual suppliers within a chain or...
Our Economy: The vaccine, Brexit and the new multifunctional normal
The long-awaited vaccine was approved in the UK on December 2nd, ahead of both the US and the EU, becoming the first nation in the west to allow for...
Blockchain: Transparency within the Supply Chain
With the implementation of blockchain in the supply chain industry, it brings about the discussion of visibility- especially within end-to-end...
Why we must support global trade and investment to further combat COVID-19.
The world has experienced horrific pandemics before COVID-19, but it’s certainly difficult to remember one with such rapid speed and severe...
What can OCI do for your business as a supply chain partner?
Supply chains need to be more reactive than ever to ensure that goods and services - particularly within a market like PPE - can be delivered on...
OCI, World Health Organisation and the pandemic
At present, OCI has heavily committed to the sourcing and supply of PPE. We have fully utilised our network and expertise in sourcing products and...
Coronavirus: OCI’s support on PPE sourcing
During this challenging time, OCI is utilising its endless expertise and extensive knowledge to support the global effort in the sourcing and...
How does the shipping industry stay afloat despite the COVID-19 torpedo?
How does the shipping industry stay afloat despite the COVID-19 torpedo? Challenging times, but still vessel-peppered seas as operators continue to...
Coronavirus puts a stain on steel.
The global steel trade is facing an unprecedented threat. Despite its historic and robust nature, the world could be a very different place even for...
US/China Trade War Winners
Since the Trump administration’s decision to focus so heavily on America’s trading position a trade war is ensuing with (especially) China and...
The Global Plastic Predicament.
The responsible recycling of plastic remains a significant and escalating problem worldwide. One single-use plastic bag, for example, takes 450...
How is Blockchain changing Container Shipping?
Arguably, the shipping industry remains one of the most archaic, cumbersome and data-handling intensive industries, the mechanism to relieve the...
Trump’s Trade Tirade
Steel – a commodity that unpins much of the world’s infrastructure, economic development and competitiveness – has just found itself with a complete...
Pyrolysis Oil – A possibility the UK is shying away from?
Pyrolysis Oil in the UK market continues to remain untapped, undeveloped and unaccounted for in legislation, investment and potential whilst...
China has closed its lid on plastic imports. The UK’s is overflowing with few options.
“For the UK market, which exported on average 65% of its plastic waste to China per year before the ban, a massive change is on the horizon.” ...
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