09 February 2010

Reports

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£5.46bn spent online in December 2009
UK shoppers spent £5.46 billion online in December – the equivalent of £88.93 for every person in the UK – up 17 per cent on December 2008, according to IMRG Capgemini’s e-Retail Sales Index. ...
Published: 22 January 2010

Profits slip at K+N
Kuehne + Nagel has reported a fall in its half-year profits, but group chief executive Reinhard Lange has referred to the results as “satisfactory”...
Published: 23 July 2009

Online sales forecast cut
The forecast for retail growth has been cut from 15 per cent to 12 per cent for the second half of the year by IMRG Capgemini which produces the e-Retail Sales Index...
Published: 23 July 2009

Virgin Atlantic backs biofuel
Virgin Atlantic has welcomed the UK think tank Policy Exchange’s statement that sustainable biofuels should be used to cut emissions in the aviation industry ...
Published: 23 July 2009

Do software vendors take advantage?
Procurement and finance professionals are at risk of being hoodwinked by spend analysis software vendors, warns Rosslyn Analytics. ...
Published: 23 July 2009

Fast fashion
Prof Jose Luis Nueno of the IESE Business School explains to Malory Davies the supply chain philosophy that has made Zara such a formidable competitor in the high street fashion business. ...
Published: 01 July 2009

Extend your vision
This year's Extended Supply Chain conference will explore ways of maximising collaboration, minimising risk and delivering value - essential factors for surviving the downturn. ...
Published: 27 February 2009

Visibility is key supply chain challenge
Supply chain visibility is the number one challenge for chief supply chain officers, according to a new study by IBM. ...
Published: 24 February 2009

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 ...
Published: 30 May 2008

Take it easy
Things are changing. Top retailers are facing far more sophisticated challenges within their supply chains following the wide adoption of multi-channel strategies to market. No longer is it a matter of picking cases or pallet loads for a typical...
Published: 30 May 2008

Uncertainty principle
If supply chain practice ever needs a fashionable rebranding, we could do worse than style ourselves ''risk managers'', for in these economically and politically febrile times, managing and mitigating risk is an increasing part of what we do ...
Published: 30 May 2008

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 ...
Published: 01 April 2008

Riders on the storm
Contract logistics, 3PL, 4PL - call it what you will - continues to be a growing business, but it is changing subtly. ...
Published: 01 April 2008

Fast fulfilment
Online shoe retailer, Zappos.com, has used sophisticated high-speed handling technology to give it an edge over high street competition. Offering the best service, an extensive product range and fast delivery was seen as essential. Zapposmade rapid...
Published: 01 February 2008

Getting in sync
Whether you are talking about a breakfast cereal called Corn Flakes or one called Flakes of Corn may not sound a big deal in the human world, but when it comes to exchanging information about products in the supply chain it could mean the...
Published: 01 February 2008

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