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As supply chain and logistics directors grapple with the challenges of managing a growing volume of goods from outsourced manufacturing sites in the Far East and eastern Europe, focus of attention has turned to the weak link in the chain, the ports.

BSH Home Appliances has made NYK Logistics its sole provider of logistics services for small trade customers, as well as handling 50 per cent of bulk deliveries into the distribution networks of BSH’s major retail customers.

Western manufacturers now need to know more about managing networks than they do about making things. Outsourcing manufacturing to distant low cost economies may cut unit costs but increased complexity and risk are creating new challenges for the supply