In this issue of Supply Chain Standard magazine:

NOVEMBER 2008

Coping with the crunch 
One of the biggest problems for retailers, especially as we approach Christmas, will be trying to estimate demand.

NEWS

Time to involve the customers? 
Innovation has long been thought of as critical for sustaining business growth.

Ethnical dimension
Sustainable procurement is seen as the next greatest challenge for purchasing managers.

Survey reveals barriers to collaboration
Collaboration is still the big stumbling block to getting the most out of the supply chain.

 

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VIEWPOINT

Risk: A complex problem
Managing a global supply chain is getting more difficult and more risky, but the focus of Europe's multinational companies is starkly different from that of their North American counterparts.

CUT COSTS, NOT CORNERS
Sometimes the evidence of your own eyes is a lot more revealing than a whole host of business lectures on an MBA course.

The real online cost
The hyperbole at times is a little OTT: did, for example, the IMRG/CapGemini e-Retail Sales Index really mean to imply that online had reached 23 per cent of total UK retail business in July when it estimated internet sales for the month at £4.8 billion?

Chip and win
Retailers, rather like the consumers that they service, drive the hardest bargain.

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