08 January 2009

The Blog

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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

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

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

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