Supply Chain, Logistics - Expert Opinions

24 May 2013

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No time to cut the budget
The global market for supply chain software grew 7.1 per cent last year – pretty impressive given the disappointing performance of the world economy ...
Published: 21 May 2013

Tiers before bedtime
Almost half of manufacturing executives globally admit that their companies currently do not have visibility of their supply chains beyond Tier 1 suppliers...
Published: 14 May 2013

Can you spot a fake?
Any discussion of supply chain risk tends to focus on such things as natural disasters and supplier failures. ...
Published: 07 May 2013

All going to plan?
The concept of Sales and Operations Planning is hardly new, but a surprisingly large number of companies, 72 per cent, have only started to make use of it in the past five years, according to a survey by consultants Bearing Point...
Published: 30 April 2013

The downstream approach to supply chain finance
The credit squeeze resulting from the recession put the focus firmly on supply chain finance as major corporations got to grips with the fact that some of their suppliers were struggling to finance their activities ...
Published: 23 April 2013

Hard headed approach to the environment
Unilever has just announced that it has cut its carbon dioxide output by one million tonnes over the past five years – a significant milestone ...
Published: 16 April 2013

Market-changing risks
The fall-out from the horsemeat scandal is continuing with research showing a slowdown in the growth of the £2bn ready meals market ...
Published: 09 April 2013

Time to take the initiative
The British government has just launched the competition for rounds 3 and 4 of its Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative ...
Published: 02 April 2013

A job well done
It’s a classic business mantra: The customer is king. But are enough businesses, expecially B2B, taking it seriously enough? Damian Pike, vice president, innovation at DHL Supply Chain on why customer satisfaction should be a key target...
Published: 01 April 2013

Moving the goalposts
As the lines between in-store and online blur, are retail supply chain priorities shifting from regular replenishment to delivering to order with “keeping the shelves filled” no longer considered a necessity?...
Published: 01 April 2013

Can you manage your supply chain alone?
As pressure mounts on major corporations to be seen to be operating in a sustainable way, it has opened up a world of opportunities to a new breed of organisation dedicated to helping them get their supply chains in order ...
Published: 26 March 2013

Time to recognise the true value of global supply chains
Traditional statistics attribute the full commercial value of imports to the last link in the production chain even where the contribution made by that final link has been minimal. The points is made by WTO director-general Pascal Lamy ...
Published: 18 March 2013

Innovation is a supply chain issue
Ask anyone to describe the innovation process and what they come up with will probably involve a small group of boffins working isolation from the rest of the world. But the world is changing, as Nokia's Kari Kulojärvi made clear today ...
Published: 12 March 2013

Culture shock
It dominates your social thinking, your moral thinking and your character altogether. Get it wrong and it could damage your business ...
Published: 07 March 2013

Dictating demand
In an omni-channel world supply chain management needs to embrace more than just products, deliveries and the internet ...
Published: 07 March 2013

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