04 February 2012

Penelope Ody

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Meeting demanding demand
Retailing has always been a dynamic industry but with customers demanding ever more rapid retail there will be plenty of supply chain challenges in 2012 ...
Published: 04 January 2012

Managing expectations
Consumers may want home deliveries at times to suit themselves but cost considerations will always limit the options so are there other ways of keeping them happy? ...
Published: 01 October 2011

Managing virtual stock
With the high street stagnating, what retail growth there is, is largely online and involves increasingly challenging stock management and logistics options. ...
Published: 01 September 2011

Time to start running
The Olympics may be 16 months away, but already the logistics of keeping shelves filled and deliveries on schedule to satisfy the ten million expected visitors is starting to cause headaches. ...
Published: 01 April 2011

Embracing new ideas
Thanks to changing technology, concepts that were once regarded as innovative, high risk, too complex or simply too expensive are rapidly becoming standard - and that applies both to IT and logistics services. ...
Published: 01 February 2011

Who calls the customer-centric tune?
With retail buying power concentrated in ever fewer hands - especially in the grocery sector - CPG suppliers must conform to their various customers' supply chain processes. ...
Published: 01 December 2010

Time to invest?
Research in IT retail priorities suggest that many supply chain systems are due for an upgrade - and vendors are eager for sales. ...
Published: 01 October 2010

Tooled up to optimise
The economy may be improving, albeit slowly, but will "lean and mean" remain the order of the day? ...
Published: 31 August 2010

Solving small problems
Information technology is all too often the elephant in the room, but retail market specialist Penelope Ody thinks it might be time to think small. ...
Published: 01 June 2010

Deliveries of delight
Online shopping is growing - but when will home delivery services bring customer satisfaction? ...
Published: 01 February 2010

Seeking solutions
An expert and efficient 'solution' to help cut costs should be a priority. ...
Published: 01 December 2009

Rationalised and optimal
The current recession has seen massive destocking by retailers - it this the new norm or will the shelves fill up again come the upturn? ...
Published: 01 July 2009

Planning for changing times
Growing need for flexibility, responsiveness and adaptable supply chains might just encourage even more outsourcing as we wait for the upturn. ...
Published: 27 February 2009

Encouraging long tail IT
Despite whatever the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics - robustly "disputed" by the British Retail Consortium - would have us believe, sales in the high street are rather less than buoyant. The ONS's 3.8 per cent year-on-year increase...
Published: 03 October 2008

Sharing the crystal ball
Along with the current spate of profits warnings and "disappointing" results, we've all noticed how retail clearance sales seem to start earlier and earlier each year. Long ago and far away they were in mid-January and July, now mid-December and early...
Published: 01 September 2008

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