As businesses have embraced global communications technology, so real world supply chains have had to match the rapidly rising expectations, So says specialist logistics recruiter BiS Henderson. Recruiters specialise in tracking down supply chain specialists who can pare lead times to the bone. To help them with this, BiS Henderson have the most up to date and largest dataset anywhere in the industry: with about 30,000 potential logistics candidates in its database at any one time, every … [Read more...]
BiS Henderson Understands the Increasing Complexity of Supply Chain Management
Posted on 08/03/2012
Specialist supply chain recruiter BiS Henderson is well-placed to help clients to find the right people for their supply chain management needs, which are changing constantly. One of the effects of increasing globalisation has been to extend and complicate supply chains in a number of ways. As global supply chain systems have delivered ever faster turnarounds and managed to respond more rapidly to customer requirement, so customers have taken these improving service levels as basic … [Read more...]
Supply Chain Recruitment Specialist BiS-Henderson Works to Highest Industry Standards
Posted on 01/03/2012
Specialist supply chain recruiter BiS-Henderson works to long-established policies, which all meet the good practice guidelines laid out by the UK Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). The consultancy brings a team-based approach to all its assignments, ensuring that the supply chain recruitment consultants leading a particular project will have the backing of a team that can draw upon resources across the whole company. The processes that have been developed work together to … [Read more...]
BiS Henderson Uses Technology Investment to Benefit Clients
Posted on 27/02/2012
The specialist supply chain recruitment agency BiS Henderson uses the latest web-based tools to get the maximum benefit from the experience and knowledge of its recruitment consultants. The group has a resource pool that is highly regarded by many, and has a rolling programme of investment in systems and technology to ensure that it is deployed effectively. Across the BiS Henderson team of consultants, a rapid search for specific candidate criteria comes with a knowledge of the interface. … [Read more...]
Effective Communication is Essential for Effective Supply Chain Recruitment
Posted on 30/01/2012
Specialist logistics and supply chain recruitment agency BiS Henderson works tirelessly to ensure that clutter-free communication is maintained throughout the recruitment process. Effective communication – and the lack of it – is at the heart of the process, but it needs to be managed with care and consideration. BiS Henderson is committed to a policy of open communication, which is a key performance indicator for the business. The target is to have an equal respect for both clients and … [Read more...]
BiS Henderson Recruits the Right Purchasing Staff for Your Business
Posted on 14/12/2011
Purchasing functions are at the heart of inbound aspects of any logistics operation, which specialist recruitment agency BiS Henderson understands perfectly. In many retail operations, buying offices may be managed at one remove, but the operational aspects will be looked after by logistics specialists as soon as the goods concerned are transferred to the buying team. Depending on the nature of the business, procurement may need to be direct for very specific items or bought on the spot … [Read more...]
BiS Henderson Undertakes Background Checks on Supply Chain & Logistics Candidates
Posted on 25/11/2011
Supply Chain & Logistics staff are entrusted with handling and moving high value goods and data. Reliability and trustworthiness are essential qualities. In this day and age, when identity fraud is possible on a larger and more organised scale than ever before, security and reference checks to ensure that the candidate really is the person they claim to be is just the beginning. BiS Henderson recruitment executives go to great lengths to validate the identity of candidates, as well as … [Read more...]
BiS-Henderson helps employers to get the right candidates
Posted on 27/10/2011
The selection process is long and getting longer as rising unemployment means that more people are sending out job applications far and wide. From a management perspective, as BiS-Henderson International and Business Development Director Larry Woelk explains, this generates more noise than signal. Top quality staff will tend to stay put rather than chance a change in a difficult economic climate, while employers are less likely to shed them anyway. The result is a growing pool of potential … [Read more...]
Collaboration Between Logistics Companies – Good or Bad?
Posted on 14/10/2011
Larry Woelk, Director, International & Business Development writes: As specialist Supply Chain & Logistics Recruitment Consultants BiS Henderson find the people who manage supply chains. Interacting with retailers, manufacturers and logistics providers constantly exposes us to the efficiencies, or lack of, in supply chains. One element that presents itself regularly is the sameness of supply chains and the lack of collaboration between them. There are many factors favouring … [Read more...]
What profile will Walmart recruit for Netto?
Posted on 15/09/2011
When the chief executive of the world’s largest retailer, Walmart, reports that “...many consumers are still struggling...” it is time to sit up and listen. To be sure, Mike Duke was referring to Walmart customers in the US at that moment, not ASDA customers in the UK, but he had plenty to say about global aspects of the business during the second quarter results presentation. And it was all about delivering in some form or another. So Walmart’s US consumers are trading down, … [Read more...]
