Blogs
My Summer Internship with The Config Team
Hello! My name is Beth and I am a second year Geography student at Newcastle University. This summer I had the fantastic opportunity to intern with The Config Team, a leading SAP Logistics Consultancy Firm based in the Lake District, working with Business Operations and Support Teams to help support the company during a busy period of growth and change.
Mobility solutions - shaping the supply chain of the future
Logistics managers are constantly looking to solve a unique set of challenges that threaten to disrupt the flow of their supply chains. Any disruption in the supply chain, however minor, can cause product shipments and other warehouse operations to come to a halt.
Cloudy with a chance of……. Clarity?
It is interesting to understand how different the thought process is around selecting and implementing a pubic cloud solution, compared to private or on-premise.
Paradigm Shift
Let me start this missive with a history lesson. Once-upon-a-time there was just Shank’s Pony for moving stuff around. Some clever person then invented the cart and this was easier.
Mr. Bill. With apologies to the great Roger Hargreaves
Mr. Bill was bored. Bored, bored, bored. He was so bored that he thought he would have a wander down to the shops for a mooch around. Mr. Bill hates shopping so that just shows how dreadfully bored he was.
Abject Normality
I was talking with my brother-in-law about one of the Rugby League Challenge Cup matches and he used a wonderful phrase about the performance of one of the teams – abject normality.
Getting Married
What a stupid thing to do. You take two disparate entities, from entirely different backgrounds, with completely different ways of communicating and shove them together. What could possibly go wrong?