Tesco goes international with online clothing deliveries
Tesco’s online clothing business in the UK is extending its delivery service to include international markets for the first time ... Published:  04 October 2011

Zara steps up supply chain controls in Brazil
Spanish fashion group Inditex has set out a improvements to its procedures for controlling its supply chain in Brazil following press allegations last month that one of its contractors was employing sweatshop labour ... Published:  15 September 2011

M&S plans supply chain traceability for non-foods
Marks and Spencer has signed a contract with supply chain traceability specialist Historic Futures that will give total “raw material to store” traceability on all its non-food products, as part of its environmental initiative Plan... Published:  16 August 2011

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

Fashionably flexible
Fashion can be a fickle thing. What’s in one week might be old news the next week so retailers need to keep on top of changing trends and adapt supply chains accordingly to thrive. Lucy Tesseras ... Published:  01 July 2009

Fast fashion
Prof Jose Luis Nueno of the IESE Business School explains to Malory Davies the supply chain philosophy that has made Zara such a formidable competitor in the high street fashion business. ... Published:  01 July 2009

Balancing risk
Two major humanitarian disasters - the Burmese cyclone and the Chinese earthquake - provided a sombre backdrop to ''Supply Chain Standard''s Roundtable discussion on supply chain risk. But as Dave Food, business development director from the meeting's ... Published:  30 May 2008

Inventory:the great debate
No one ever got fired for having too much inventory, but they certainly have for running out of stock. With that warning from Professor David Simchi-Levi, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ringing in their ears attendees at Supply Chain... Published:  01 November 2007