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Myths of supply chain collaboration
Time to talk about what does work - and what does not - in collaboration
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Published:
01 September 2010
Rolling the clouds away
Cloud computing is making its presence felt, but which applications best suit this approach?
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Published:
01 September 2010
Tooled up to optimise
The economy may be improving, albeit slowly, but will "lean and mean" remain the order of the day?
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Published:
31 August 2010
Pakistan: taking up the supply chain challenge
It would be easy to be daunted by the scale of the supply chain challenge presented by the flooding in Pakistan. ...
Published:
27 August 2010
Coming to a port near you
Not that long ago, there were predictions that RFID would revolutionise the supply chain sweeping away all that had gone before.
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Published:
23 August 2010
Get the picture?
What's happening to our high tech supply chains? Demand in recent weeks for micro chips seems to have caught everyone on the hop. According to figures released by the Semiconductor Industry Association, the global semiconductor industry is operating at
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Published:
16 August 2010
Hard decisions
A few weeks ago, I highlighted the problem Nissan was facing in obtaining supplies of key components because of a shortage of computer chips (Chips are a supply chain issue, 19th July).
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Published:
09 August 2010
Service matters for supply chain software
SAP users are a feisty bunch - last week castigating the giant software house for tardiness in bringing to market a software-as-a-service offering.
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Published:
03 August 2010
Is the customer your king?
It’s a real cliché – describing the customer as king. But expressions become clichés precisely because they describe widely held views.
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Published:
27 July 2010
Chips are a supply chain issue
One electronics industry commentator called it "the ultimate supply chain screw-up". Strong words but when a major international motor manufacturer has to stop the production line, there is, perhaps, some justification.
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Published:
19 July 2010
Fast fashion: a throw-away trend?
Fashion is a fickle business. Not exactly a groundbreaking observation, but add to that the current trend for "fast fashion" and it becomes all the more apparent. What's in one week is out the window the next - and quite literally, it seems.
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Published:
12 July 2010
Car maker looking to rail and water
There can be few more stark examples of how environmental concerns are affecting supply chains than Ford's "Blueprint for sustainability" released last month. This set out the steps it is taking to reduce its carbon footprint.
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Published:
05 July 2010
One competition where you can make a difference
Every four years we go into the World Cup with high hopes for our teams, but the performance of the English, French, German and Italian teams over the weekend seems to have left most of Europe in a state of depression.
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Published:
21 June 2010
Get off my cloud
Cloud computing has been one of the big success stories in the supply chain software world over the past couple of years. But while it might seem that the bandwagon is unstoppable, a note of warning has been sounded by IT research group Gartner
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Published:
14 June 2010
How do you join the world's supply chain elite?
AMR Research has just revealed its Top 25 supply chains and, for the third year running, Apple has come top.
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Published:
07 June 2010
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