Supply Chain, Logistics - Expert Opinions

08 January 2009

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Boxing clever with e-fulfilment
As the Christmas frenzy subsides, retailers will be left with a hangover of unwanted stock, poor sales figures and ultra thin margins on heavily discounted sale items. But for beleaguered retailers, things are only likely to get worse for the foreseeable...
Published: 05 January 2009

How safe is your supply chain?
In the present frosty economic climate one of the biggest problems facing suppliers is obtaining credit cover for deals. The insurers are playing hard to get, and who can blame them with high street names falling by the wayside and many more expected to...
Published: 15 December 2008

Working together
Over the last few months the world has changed dramatically. No longer are we comforted by expectations of continued economic growth, easy credit and relatively calm and predictable trading conditions. Considerable challenges now face the commercial...
Published: 08 December 2008

Winning on the high street
As we are all too aware, retailing on the high street has been hard hit. Leading retail brands are falling by the wayside – notable examples being Woolworths and MFI – with other high profile companies expected to be victims of the credit crunch ...
Published: 02 December 2008

Strategies for survival
We may or may not yet be officially using the "R" word but with the stock market in freefall, house prices plummeting and the sterling exchange rate reminiscent of the 1990s, it certainly feels as though recession has well and truly arrived....
Published: 01 December 2008

Think service for Software
The way that logistics software is bought and run is going through big changes as companies that provide applications switch from programmes installed on computers in their customers' premises to ones that are sold as a service via the web. ...
Published: 01 December 2008

Time for a new approach
The third party logistics industry is in a difficult place. Despite efforts to differentiate themselves with customers, they are still seen as commodity suppliers by many customers and margins are thin, typically around one per cent for a haulier. While...
Published: 01 December 2008

What makes a winning chain?
Successful companies have a certain set of characteristics which are responsible for their winning supply chains. There is a common pattern among the top performing companies regardless of the industry in which they operate their core business. Our...
Published: 01 December 2008

Supplier beware
Cash-flow is the life blood of the business and when it stops flowing alarm bells start ringing. As the financial turmoil spreads from the banking sector to the wider economy, suppliers are facing tough decisions on a daily basis, whether to supply to a...
Published: 25 November 2008

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

View from 10,000ft
We all spend our days immersed in our own industry, looking for ways of improving the way we do things from within. But what if there were lessons to be learnt from outside that could have a more dramatic impact on our business - and leapfrog the...
Published: 04 November 2008

CUT COSTS, NOT CORNERS
It's all very well cutting costs, but it's important to think of the implications too. Peter Bartram ...
Published: 04 November 2008

Chip and win
Why there are no losers when outsourcing is done intelligently and collaboratively. Sam Sharma ...
Published: 04 November 2008

The real online cost
With online retailing, apparently, maintaining growth and sales rather better than the high street, managing home deliveries efficiently and cost-effectively has to be a priority for every retailer. ...
Published: 04 November 2008

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