07 September 2010

Services

Features

Mars Petcare profits from planning
Mars Petcare had been in search of an IT solution to improve management of its sales and operations data, but a discussion with Oliver Wight has led to a different approach ...
Published: 09 June 2010

Robin Proctor - Group supply chain director, Travis Perkins
Robin Proctor, group supply chain director at Travis Perkins, says the supply chain in the buildings and construction sector is underdeveloped compared with other areas. ...
Published: 01 November 2007

The European Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2007, Public Sector, Services, Utilities Winner: TNK-BP
This category of entry may appear something of a mixed bag - what unites them is that they all work under constraints - legal or regulatory, and of course that great arbiter, public opinion - that can limit their freedom to operate in quite the way that...
Published: 01 November 2007

The European Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2007, Team Award Winner: TNK-BP
Teamwork can mean almost anything - who hasn''t been baffled by a job application asking you to ''demonstrate teamwork''? It''s safe to say though that any organisation making it onto the shortlist of finalists in these Awards must be displaying teamwork...
Published: 01 November 2007

The art of fulfilment
As businesses scour the globe for low-cost sources of supply, results from a recent Europe wide survey on fulfilment reveal the key priorities of leading supply chain executives. SERGIO NOGUEIRA discusses the results and uncovers the issues associated...
Published: 29 June 2007

Adrian Boughtflower
Freight Coordinator, Transport for London ...
Published: 01 May 2007

Coping with collaboration complexity
Supply chain technology has come a long way since the early days of EDI, warehouse management technology and demand forecasting. Today, it is fast becoming a totally joined-up message thanks to the latest IT. Soon systems will be able to call on a raft...
Published: 01 May 2007

The Seven Deadly Sins
All too often public sector procurement falls short of best practice. Alastair James believes there are seven common errors that public sector procurement needs to guard against. Here are the seven deadly sins of public sector procurement. ...
Published: 01 May 2007

Birgitte Stalder-Olsen
‘We don’t have too many direct logistics problems,’ says Birgitte Stalder-Olsen. ...
Published: 01 April 2007

Mark Barnett
'Our organisation has spent four or five years trying to define and develop what we mean by sustainable development in the supply chain, and we’ve broken the task into three areas - society, the environment, and economics,’ says Mark Barnett, chief...
Published: 01 March 2007

Detlef Schultz
Director of Global Supply Chain Management, Vodafone ...
Published: 01 February 2007

Route map to the promised land
The prophets were wrong. e-procurement (or e-anything) doesn’t change behaviour and success depends not so much on technical excellence as on changing organisational cultures by demonstrating tangible benefits. ...
Published: 01 November 2004

The cost of Utopia
Not that long ago the dream of automating procurement for indirect, and even direct, goods was seen as not far off. So why is this Utopia so illusive, and how can it be attained? There may be a simple answer. ...
Published: 01 April 2004

In the public interest
The public sector is the supply chain’s final frontier but managers are beginning to face up to the task of reform. The stakes are high, but so are the possible gains. ...
Published: 01 March 2004