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Editor's Blog

Global sourcing survey reveals ethical weaknesses
Working in partnership with research organisation YouGov, Supply Chain Standard has just completed a major survey into ‘Future Global Sourcing Strategies’ ...

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White Papers

Oracle - Transportation Management for Consumer Packaged Goods
Oracle Transportation Management delivers special value to the consumer packaged goods industry by combining broad logistics capabilities with the deep transportation management functionality necessary for today’s single- and multimode, multibusiness...

Oracle and Demantra - Growing Revenue from CPFR
Most supply chain projects to date have been all about reducing operating costs through inventory reductions, better transportation planning, lower transaction costs, and improved supplier management. ...

BearingPoint. - 2008 Supply Chain Monitor 'How mature is the Green Supply Chain?'
A global survey of the Green Supply Chain, undertaken by management and technology consultancy BearingPoint, in partnership with Supply Chain Standard, sheds new light on what business is doing to meet consumer and shareholder demand for action. ...

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Corporate Insight

Oliver Wight
Oliver Wight is a leading specialist consultancy, operating in over 20 countries worldwide, delivering business excellence for clients through sustainable behaviour change. ...

Reducing the risk of SC transformation
Once companies have made an initial change investment, how do they optimise their supply chains and continually drive for incremental improvements in people and processes? Sue Pryce shows the way. ...

Addressing the last link in the chain
The adoption of a sound strategy at the port-to-destination leg of the supply chain can have a direct impact on the amount and position of inventory, accuracy of forecasting, availability of product at DC, store or manufacturing line, and ultimately the...

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Features

A clearer view
In a world where trade is global, ''global trade management'' (GTM) sounds a fairly obvious name for what supply chain managers spend most of their time doing. In the world of European IT, however, the GTM label is a comparatively recent phenomenon ...

Riders on the storm
Contract logistics, 3PL, 4PL - call it what you will - continues to be a growing business, but it is changing subtly. ...

Money matters
With all the talk of borrowing squeezes and high interest rates, perhaps financial directors need to look at some of the assets locked up in company supply chains. When goods commonly spent no more than a few days in transit, financing the supply chain...

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Viewpoint

Adapting to high fuel costs
What happens if fuel prices continue to rise? With oil now at $120 a barrel – double that of a year ago – and with Opec warning that the price of crude could reach $200 a barrel, the cost of transporting goods looks set to rise ...

Gone fishing…
Here we go again. Seemingly, barely a week goes by without a raid by the UK’s Office of Fair Trading on Britain’s leading supermarkets ...

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