Introduction to logistics in the EU post Brexit

This is an avatar lead course

The UK’s exit from the European Single Market has created logistical challenges for many British businesses, requiring a radical redesign of pre-Brexit distribution networks. In this course, we illustrate how these challenges can become opportunities for growth.

This course will give you the foundations for your goods-to-market strategy creating new certainties for future growth and prosperity. At the end of the course, you will have a thorough understanding of how to distribute your products in the EU Single Market. We will also look at fiscal elements such as value-added tax duty, rules of origin and customs procedures.

We will introduce the principal elements of a logistics strategy for delivering your products to both your European business customers and the individual end users efficiently, promptly and with the same transparency as before Brexit. These include your storage, packaging, inventory systems, transport and oversight. The important thing to remember is that after Brexit, the European market is no longer domestic but international.

The knowledge that you will acquire in this course is part of a skill set that you can expand into other international markets, such as the USA, South America, India and the Far East.

Although we touch on novel foods, animal health certificates and the European Safety Standards, we do not discuss in detail food products. This will be the focus of a future lecture.