02 September 2010

Supply Chain Management & Strategy in Europe

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The Blog

Pakistan: taking up the supply chain challenge
It would be easy to be daunted by the scale of the supply chain challenge presented by the flooding in Pakistan. ...

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White Papers

Best Practices to Reduce International Freight Costs
The drive to capture the business benefits of low cost country sourcing has far out-paced the processes and systems needed to efficiently manage the global supply chain. Most importers do not have a formal solution to manage international transportation...

Trade Agreement Best Practices Benchmark Report
Free Trade Agreements are increasingly popular among global companies searching for ways to reduce costs and remain competitive. But the intricacies of FTAs are complicated. To successfully benefit from the full potential that FTAs offer, companies must...

Cutting cost, securing trust: sustainability, a new report
Oracle recently conducted a survey of 50 UK businesses, in which 92% said sustainability remains a business priority: it is an important process for cutting costs, minimising supply chain risk and securing trust among customers, investors and employees....

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Corporate Insight

Argos
Argos, the largest non-food retailer in the UK, partnered with Vanderlande Industries on an automated distribution centre, including WCS, which lowered operational costs and improved efficiency, productivity and picking accuracy. ...

Innovative partner networks
Industry leaders focused on the critical issues of creating and managing effective supply chain partner networks at the latest Supply Chain Standard Round Table, sponsored by Wesupply. ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Little less conversation...
When Elvis sang "A little less conversation, a little more action please" back in 1968, it's a fair bet that he wasn't referring to collaboration in the supply chain. ...

A new spirit of dynamism for supply chain
What constitutes a dynamic supply chain and how do you bring all the elements into alignment to maximise its potential? Dr John Gattorna has the answers and will be the keynote speaker at the Extended Supply Chain conference ...

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Viewpoint

Coming to a port near you
Not that long ago, there were predictions that RFID would revolutionise the supply chain sweeping away all that had gone before. ...

Get the picture?
What's happening to our high tech supply chains? Demand in recent weeks for micro chips seems to have caught everyone on the hop. According to figures released by the Semiconductor Industry Association, the global semiconductor industry is operating at ...

Hard decisions
A few weeks ago, I highlighted the problem Nissan was facing in obtaining supplies of key components because of a shortage of computer chips (Chips are a supply chain issue, 19th July). ...

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Executive Jobs
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3PL General Manager - Czech Republic ... Europe Permanent
Adaptable Procurement Manager ... East Sussex Permanent
Business Development Director - Capital... Middlesex Permanent
Category Specialist - Professional... London Contract
DC General Manager, fashion retailer ... Leicestershire Permanent
Distribution Centre Manager ... Oxfordshire Permanent
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