Digital Strategy
Defining a digital strategy is one of the biggest challenges facing most retailers today and not surprising, check out these snippets…
3 fascinating digital facts
You cant fail but be impressed by these statistics
How did SCS surpass the scale and capability of the billion dollar multinationals that traditionally dominated the 3PL market?
Find out why SCS is now the largest specialist 3PL in NZ
COGA (Carriage of Goods Act), limited liabity increase from 1500.00 to 2000.00 effective today
A reminder that the legislation changes for the Carriage of Goods Act, limited liability are effective today
Avoid a poor 3PL selection
Postie Plus went into receivership last week, they are suing their 3PL for 12M, they had a comprehensive selection process initially and still got it wrong, click here to learn how to avoid their mistakes
How to compare in-house costs with an outsourced (3pl) model
Do you want to understand how to correctly compare insource vs. outsource for 3PL?
Handling stress
The best advice I’ve ever heard about dealing with stress
Government announce more taxes which will increase freight rates – again, but SCS clients are ok.
The rockstar economy – really? Almost everyone I am talking to is experiencing increased sales but lower margins, they are all working harder, longer for less. New tax changes announced today for RUCs (Road User Charges) and Petrol and Diesal will be forcing more increases, we estimate an additional 1% increase will flow through to customers. To stick to our [SCS] budget forcast we will have to absorb this and we will but the relentless increases on housing pricing, labour costs, health and safety complience, food etc… is going to force many businesses to re-think their business models.
Massive changes in OS&H legislation will force many people to 3PL or out of business
OS&H legislation in NZ has been completely re-written, there are dramatic changes about to be introduced. Directors, Managers and Staff will be criminally liable and face huge fines from 01.04.15. SCS clients, you MUST read this, we can help you understand and mitigate significant liabilities that about to be introduced to your NZ business/office through this new legislation.
Predictions for r/etailing in the UK by 2018 – will this happen in NZ?
A lot people I speak to believe NZ is 3-5 years behind the UK/USA, for this reason a lot of business seek trends there to support their business strategies here. If this report is correct you’d be well advised to read it, it offers some fascinating predictions that will shape our future.