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November 2026
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Supply chain & operations11 min readWhen chains break: the UK fuel crisis and the horsemeat scandal
For a Vietnamese SME owner who buys inputs through several tiers or sells through distributors. Two public UK documents show two ways a chain fails: too few people to move the goods in 2021, and fraud that was hard to see in 2013.
- Supply chain & operations11 min read
Choosing suppliers: the seven Cs and total cost, not lowest price
For an SME owner or buyer about to give a regular order to a new supplier. The seven Cs screen candidates, a five-step process scores them, and the lowest quote is not always the lowest total cost, as the invented example in this post shows.