07 September 2010

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Efficiency is on the cards
The drive for efficiency in physical supply chains has benefited firms prepared to adopt new models and technology. Meanwhile, the financial supply chain has ground to make up if it is to avoid becoming a significant bottleneck. ...
Published: 01 April 2008

Watch your Guanxi
How to mitigate the risk of problems of cultural difference when sourcing from China. ...
Published: 01 February 2008

The mechanics of SC finance
Supplier finance - the practice of providing low-cost finance to suppliers as part of a flexible settlement system - is becoming a central element of an integrated financial supply chain strategy. ...
Published: 01 November 2007

Time to talk
Since IBM bought out its first mainframe, user conferences have been a feature of the technology business. In the early days they were serious gatherings at which men in white shirts with rows of pens in their top pockets read the runes of the latest...
Published: 01 November 2007

Add supply chain sparkle
Tom McGuffog, chairman of UK Partners for Electronic Business, argues in his publication ‘Diamond: A General Theory of Value Chain Management Data’ that too many organisations fail to achieve their objectives of providing a cost effective service to...
Published: 27 June 2007

Going, going...gone
Bring down the hammer on internet auction supply chain fraud. Laurence King ...
Published: 01 April 2007

Make an event of it
Managing a large amount of data in real-time used to demand supercomputers, teams of highly-paid IT experts, years of work and a lot of money. Today, complex event processing systems are turning it into a lower budget affair. Penelope Ody ...
Published: 01 April 2007

The future of Germany as a business location
We need a greater willingness to promote growth.' – the 22nd German Logistics Congress in Berlin ...
Published: 01 November 2005