Thailand Study Tour
Although my travel to Singapore is quite often, memory about other SEA (South East Asia) countries is still stopped by 25 years ago working experience at Solectron Penang an MNC Electronic Company in Malaysia. I ...
A great night to close up Thursday and the early visit to Ducati to start Friday with motorbike speed
Who said that a business is only run from an office, sitting all day in front of your computer and answering calls for a hundred stakeholders? It is well known that the best deals are ...
Visit to King Pac – Executive Logistics Study Tour
Written by Tim Smith and Neeraj Mehrotra A really interesting morning at the factory and offices of King Pac. This company manufactures all sorts of plastic bags and distributes about 130,000mt per year to markets ...
Visit to Jaspal Group – Executive Logistics Study Tour
Date of visit: 8th May 2019 We visited a warehouse today owned by Jaspal group, which specialises in distribution and manufacturing of fashion retail. The Jaspal Group utilises an in house design team and they have ...
50th Anniversary of SAFAD
Silsoe Aid for Appropriate Development (SAFAD) is a British charity run by students of Cranfield University. Since 1969, SAFAD has sent over 340 graduate and post-graduate volunteers to almost 40 different countries in the developing world. ...
A Tale of Two Worlds – Or Cost Accounting vs Throughput Accounting
On our travels, we often come across situations where a senior executive has decided to have an “efficiency drive”. And often this entails bringing in expensive consultants to do some “analysis”. And from this the ...
Cranfield University… an experience of a lifetime
I moved to Cranfield in September 2018 and when I first arrived, I was extremely overwhelmed. I instantly recognised that I was surrounded by people who had so much knowledge on a topic I knew ...
Day 2 – Henkel
So, after the excitement of our morning visit to the LCIT port terminal our group was intrigued to learn what insight we could derive from our next appointment: a visit to one of the world’s ...
Arriving to Thailand and getting to know Bangkok on the Coronation weekend
I would start by saying that this was my first long haul flight so it has been a whole new experience from the start. Let’s begin by saying that I did not know how much ...
Thailand Study Tour
Written by Neeraj Mehrotra and Tim Smith This is where it all starts - our visit to Laem Chabang International Terminal. All ready and excited to be at our first visit. The day began ...