22 November 2008

The Blog

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Your supplier needs you
As suppliers come under increasing financial pressure, the question arises as to how the larger manufacturers are going to react to protect their supply chains? ...
Published: 17 November 2008

Flexibility goes global
Despite world economic uncertainty it would seem that globalisation is moving ahead unabated. According to findings from PRTM’s sixth annual survey entitled ‘Global Supply Chain Trends 2008 – 2010’, globalisation is accelerating and in the process,...
Published: 12 November 2008

Challenging times for 3Pls
Are third party logistics service providers really giving the market what it wants? ...
Published: 04 November 2008

A transformational winner
The European Supply Chain Excellence Awards have found yet another very worthy Overall Winner this year in Nokia Siemens Networks. ...
Published: 29 October 2008

All change
How quickly things change. Just a few short months ago the price of oil was $140 a barrel, with alarming predictions that that figure could rocket to $200. Inflation too, was thought of as a key concern. ...
Published: 21 October 2008

Can we still afford sustainability?
With the world’s banking infrastructure in tatters and the looming spectre of a global recession, can business still afford a green conscience? Will sustainability be put on the corporate back burner? Or is it the case that we can’t afford not to pursue...
Published: 13 October 2008

What an idea
There is an inherent danger within any long established, reasonably successful organisation to assume that there is little need for change. ‘It’s the way we’ve always done it’, ‘If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it’, you know the thinking. A sort of...
Published: 06 October 2008

Cash flow gets a new lease of life
Under tight trading conditions cash flow is everything. And nowhere is this more clearly understood than in the retail sector. That’s why leading retailers are putting pressure on landlords to change their lease terms to more flexible arrangements on...
Published: 29 September 2008

Into the black hole
The switching on of the Large Hadron Collider on the 10th September may not have created the black hole some feared, but then something of a black hole appears to be consuming the world’s banking infrastructure and with it all available...
Published: 23 September 2008

Trading places
It seems, at last, the humble shipping container has got its 15 minutes of fame – well, a whole year of it in fact. ...
Published: 17 September 2008

Running circles around environmental savings
As just about everyone has come to realise, sustainability is a big issue and one that has got the corporate world falling over itself to issue environmental policies and green initiatives that outshine the rest. Of course, this is most commendable. But...
Published: 08 September 2008

The bigger game
Now that the Beijing Olympic Games are over what will happen to China’s booming economy? Will it continue to enjoy its position as the world’s emerging manufacturing powerhouse? Or will rising inflation, a growing green consciousness in the West and...
Published: 02 September 2008

Is there money in going green?
Green logistics has been top of the agenda for supply chain professionals in the UK for some time now. Marks & Spencer took a lead with its “Plan A” (because there is no Plan B) and it is now hard to find a company that doesn’t have an environmental...
Published: 19 August 2008

Who do you think deserves recognition?
The European Supply Chain Excellence Awards offer the happy opportunity to say thank you to an individual who has made major contribution to the theory and practice of supply chain management. ...
Published: 12 August 2008

Resilience is the key
All across Europe, banks are writing off billions of euros as the credit crunch takes its toll. Deutsche Bank’s last figures show that pre-tax profit for the quarter April-June at 642m euros was down from 2.7 billion euros the year before ...
Published: 05 August 2008

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