Justin O’Sullivan

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Justin O’Sullivan is a writer and the owner of Storage Equipment Experts. His company delivers rack safety inspections to businesses across the UK in order to make the global supply that much safer.

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Supply Chain Sustainability
Feb 17, 2018    0

Supply chain sustainability is a nice idea, but there are a lot of unanswered questions when it comes to the finer details. So, while genuine progress has been made, there are also a lot of businesses whose commitment to a sustainable supply chain is questionable. 

When McDonald’s says it wants to start serving “sustainable beef,” this sounds great. The supply chain for meat...

Sep 27, 2016    0

Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the global supply chain hasn’t really changed all that much. Products are made from raw materials in factories, shipped off somewhere else (either by land or sea), stored in a warehouse, and then distributed to retailers. Beyond a few small differences, this is more or less the way most people have acquired their stuff for nearly two hundred years.

“Stuff” is a vague term, but that only goes to show how versatile the...

May 21, 2016    0

The UK’s Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the MSA) now means that businesses’ supply chains need to be safer, more transparent, and more ethical. While it’s hard to argue that any of this is a bad thing, the development has left a few businesses in something of a panic. January this year saw the first conviction under the act: Mohammed Rafiq, owner of the bed-making...