In this issue of Supply Chain Standard magazine:

July 2009

Last chance to enter the awards
Gordon Colborn of PRTM Management Consultants writes: The 9th annual European Supply Chain Excellence Awards is now open for entry and offers an outstanding opportunity to recognise the progress you have made in improving the performance of your supply chain.

Fashionably flexible
Fashion can be a fickle thing. What’s in one week might be old news the next week so retailers need to keep on top of changing trends and adapt supply chains accordingly to thrive. Lucy Tesseras.

NEWS

Supplier liquidity challenge to supply chains
New research shows that global companies are increasingly moving to support suppliers and safeguard their supply chains.

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VIEWPOINT

Time to optimise the whole
If anything good has come out of the current economic turmoil, it is that it has been a robust test for our supply chain systems and processes.

Rationalised and optimal
Manufacturing output in the first quarter of 2009 may have fallen by 5.5 per cent but the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics also suggest that the monthly fall between February and March was only 0.1per cent - the lowest in consecutive months for more than a year, implying that those long-awaited "green shoots" could soon be appearing.

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