New metrics to measure supply chain risk
It says a lot about the perception of supply chain that it is now a subject of debate at the World Economic Forum. And, the fact that it chose to focus on risk is hardly a surprise...
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Building the Profit-Focused Supply Chain
Understanding your 'Cost to Serve' at every point throughout your supply chain will give you more opportunities for profit improvement. Companies that adopt Profit Focused Supply Chain Management recognise that understanding accurate details relating to...
Successful S&OP through Integrated Business Planning
Sales and operations planning can enable any organisation to streamline its activities and boost profitability – but only if it is properly understood and implemented.
This series of articles from experts at Oliver Wight reveal the secrets of...
Slow information flow costing UK business £1.2bn per year: a new report
Recent research commissioned by Oracle reveals the scale and cost of slow information flow through the supply chain. Interviews with 100 supply chain executives highlighted the end results; from oversized inventories to wasted man hours and lost...
Argos
Argos, the largest non-food retailer in the UK, partnered with Vanderlande Industries on an automated distribution centre, including WCS, which lowered operational costs and improved efficiency, productivity and picking accuracy.
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Innovative partner networks
Industry leaders focused on the critical issues of creating and managing effective supply chain partner networks at the latest Supply Chain Standard Round Table, sponsored by Wesupply.
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Balancing risk
Two major humanitarian disasters - the Burmese cyclone and the Chinese earthquake - provided a sombre backdrop to ''Supply Chain Standard''s Roundtable discussion on supply chain risk. But as Dave Food, business development director from the meeting's
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Awards 2011: Top supply chain revealed
Comedian Alun Cochrane presided over a dramatic evening at the Park Lane Hilton in London as 70 of Europe’s leading companies battled it out for the prestigious European Supply Chain Excellence Awards. Lucy Tesseras, Johanna Parsons and Nick Allen...
Awards 2011: Individual Contribution
Three outstanding individuals were shortlisted for the Individual Contribution Award...
Awards 2011: Sourcing & Procurement
The top entries for this year’s Sourcing & Procurement Award were: Travis Perkins, Unilever Supply Chain Company, Vodafone, and Babcock International Group - Marine and Technology Division...
Time to ‘amplify’ your supply chain?
It’s hardly an unknown problem. Ever since computers were put to use in business the difficulty has not been in generating information, but in isolating the critical pieces of information that make the difference between success and failure
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Apple opens up
Apple terminated business with one of its suppliers last year for repeated human right violations at its plant – and it is working with another repeat offender to correct its human rights practices
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The China supply chain is changing
China has dominated supply chain thinking over the past few years - but the business environment is changing
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