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Playing Tetris with Your Supply Chain: Why Reducing Wasted Space Saves Costs and Cuts Carbon
By Paul R Salmon FCILT, FSCM In supply chains around the world, space is often treated as an infinite resource. Pallets are stacked unevenly, trucks…
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Stockpiling is Fragility Disguised as Resilience
By Paul R Salmon FCILT, FSCM In military and commercial supply chains alike, the instinct to stockpile runs deep. Faced with disruption, uncertainty, and pressure…
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Why It’s Critical to Optimise Inventory – Not Just Buy More
By Paul R Salmon FCILT, FSCM In the face of stockouts, the knee-jerk reaction for many organisations is to increase purchasing and build bigger buffers.…
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Interchangeability of Spare Parts: The Key to Resilient and Efficient Defence Supply Chains
By Paul R Salmon FCILT, FSCM In a world of increasingly contested supply chains and constrained budgets, defence organisations face a dual challenge: building resilience…
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Bio-Inspired Supply Chains: Learning from Nature to Build Smarter, Adaptive Networks
By Paul R Salmon FCILT, FSCM Nature is the world’s oldest and most sophisticated supply chain. For billions of years, ecosystems have managed flows of…
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Supply Chain Resilience in a Geopolitically Fragmented World: Lessons from Ukraine, Gaza, and Taiwan for Western Militaries
By Paul R Salmon FCILT, FSCM In an era marked by great power competition, fractured global alliances, and contested logistics corridors, supply chains have become…
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Digital Twins in Defence Supply Chains: Using Simulation and Modelling to Predict Disruptions and Optimise Readiness
By Paul R Salmon FCILT, FSCM In today’s contested and complex operating environments, the agility and resilience of defence supply chains are as critical as…
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The Weaponisation of Supply Chains: How Adversaries Target Global Networks and What Defence Must Do to Build Resilience
By Paul R Salmon FCILT, FSCM In an era of intensifying geopolitical competition and technological disruption, supply chains are no longer neutral conduits of goods…
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Supply Chains as a Strategic Asset in Defence: From Back Office to Battlefield Enabler
By Paul R Salmon FCILT, FSCM In modern warfare, success is not only determined by the calibre of weapon systems or the bravery of those…
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Supply Chains as a Strategic Asset in Defence
By Paul R Salmon FCILT, FSCM Introduction: Beyond a Logistics Backbone In the past, defence supply chains were often viewed as a supporting function—necessary, but…
About
Paul Salmon
Editor in Chief
Paul Salmon FCILT is Chair of the CILT Defence Forum and the DE&S Logistics Profession Bodies Ambassador. A Chartered Fellow of CILT, CMI, and ISCM, Paul leads efforts to professionalise Defence logistics, championing CPD, chartered recognition, and stronger industry partnerships. He is a published thought leader, conference speaker, and award-winning advocate for supply chain innovation, data-driven decision-making, and resilience. With a background in both operational delivery and strategic transformation, Paul works across Defence to improve forecasting, inventory management, and supply chain integration. He is passionate about inspiring the next generation of logisticians through outreach, mentoring, and professional engagement. (Any views expressed are my own and are not those of UK defence )
