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20 July 2008
Win Europe's top supply chain award
The Blog
Supply chain skills at a premium
The findings from PRTM’s latest Global Supply Chain Trends Survey indicate that “by 2010, the need for greater supply chain flexibility will overtake product quality and customer service as the major driver for improving supply chain...
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White Papers
Enter now and be a winner
Reward and recognition are fundamental benefits of entering the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards. Leading companies have found that by being involved in Europe''s top awards scheme, they have gained considerable benefits in terms of internal
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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.
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Corporate Insight
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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Getting to grips with collaboration
For an older generation, ''collaboration'' has a sinister sound. But in the modern, dispersed and globalised supply chain, collaboration, up and down the chain, or even with apparent competitors, may be desirable or even essential
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Reducing the risk of sc transformation
Retailers and manufacturers are under immense pressure to increase the performance of their supply chains, so it is not surprising that many resort to tough tactics in response to growing competition.
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Features
Avoiding the bottlenecks
Decisions about the location and design of warehouses are critical to shaping modern supply chains, but without effective warehouse management systems to run them they cannot possibly operate efficiently
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Green impact
In stark contrast to the strong rating of the significance of green issues to the development of the business only 23 per cent measure the carbon footprint of their products Over the last decade outsourcing the manufacturer of goods to distant,...
Ian Midgley, Chief supply chain officer, Unilever
How we respond to the pressures of population growth, energy efficiency, use of water, sustainable agriculture and so on will be the defining challenge for the future. How we do this is not an add-on to our supply chain work – it is our work.
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Viewpoint
Who owns the logistics industry?
Who owns the logistics industry? On the face of it, that might seem a bizarre question, but stay with me for a moment because even a superficial survey reveals changing patterns of investment around Europe.
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Taking advantage of the crunch
More evidence of the impact of the credit crunch on supply chains comes from the Aberdeen Group which suggests that adopting technology to improve productivity will help businesses in the supply chain weather the storm
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Sustainability – time to be a little more selfish
Going green is often presented as a purely altruistic exercise – being kind to small furry creatures, saving the planet for future generations and so on.
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