09 February 2010

Penelope Ody

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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

Getting along
Talking to a range of companies recently about how collaboration in the supply chain has changed in the past few years provided some food for thought. ...
Published: 30 May 2008

Europe on the edge
Predictably, some familiar themes kept recurring at the Extended Supply Chain 2008 conference, held in London last month. ...
Published: 01 April 2008

Rethinking the unthinkable
Economic forecasters agreed there are tough times ahead, so a little imagination and future planning may not come amiss. ...
Published: 01 February 2008

Reality check
Technology has transformed the way we shop, manage the supply chain and communicate – or are things not quite so efficient as they seem? ...
Published: 01 January 2008

The joined-up challenge
Pundits and politicians talk about the need for joined-up thinking, and ERP vendors and systems integrators are equally enthisiastic. But just how joined-up are our supply chains in reality? ...
Published: 01 November 2007

The last mile
Retailers are rightly concerned about that last mile in the home delivery process, and how their goods arrive on our doorsteps. ...
Published: 01 October 2007

A different track
Watching the transcontinental trucks thunder down the motorway focusses the mind on all that burning diesel. Can't we use trains more? ...
Published: 01 September 2007

Greening the supply chain
Building a greener supply chain is not easy with conflicting views on carbon offsetting, food miles and biofuels. Technology can help - but so can a radical review of accepted practices. ...
Published: 01 September 2007

Dictated by data
A few years ago, lumbering data warehouses with nightly number crunching were the rarefied preserve of computer science graduates. Today it’s rather different – data is the vital business driver. ...
Published: 27 June 2007

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