04 December 2008

Penelope Ody

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Encouraging long tail IT
Despite whatever the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics - robustly "disputed" by the British Retail Consortium - would have us believe, sales in the high street are rather less than buoyant. The ONS's 3.8 per cent year-on-year increase...
Published: 03 October 2008

Sharing the crystal ball
Along with the current spate of profits warnings and "disappointing" results, we've all noticed how retail clearance sales seem to start earlier and earlier each year. Long ago and far away they were in mid-January and July, now mid-December and early...
Published: 01 September 2008

Getting along
Talking to a range of companies recently about how collaboration in the supply chain has changed in the past few years provided some food for thought. ...
Published: 30 May 2008

Europe on the edge
Predictably, some familiar themes kept recurring at the Extended Supply Chain 2008 conference, held in London last month. ...
Published: 01 April 2008

Rethinking the unthinkable
Economic forecasters agreed there are tough times ahead, so a little imagination and future planning may not come amiss. ...
Published: 01 February 2008

Reality check
Technology has transformed the way we shop, manage the supply chain and communicate – or are things not quite so efficient as they seem? ...
Published: 01 January 2008

The joined-up challenge
Pundits and politicians talk about the need for joined-up thinking, and ERP vendors and systems integrators are equally enthisiastic. But just how joined-up are our supply chains in reality? ...
Published: 01 November 2007

The last mile
Retailers are rightly concerned about that last mile in the home delivery process, and how their goods arrive on our doorsteps. ...
Published: 01 October 2007

A different track
Watching the transcontinental trucks thunder down the motorway focusses the mind on all that burning diesel. Can't we use trains more? ...
Published: 01 September 2007

Greening the supply chain
Building a greener supply chain is not easy with conflicting views on carbon offsetting, food miles and biofuels. Technology can help - but so can a radical review of accepted practices. ...
Published: 01 September 2007

Dictated by data
A few years ago, lumbering data warehouses with nightly number crunching were the rarefied preserve of computer science graduates. Today it’s rather different – data is the vital business driver. ...
Published: 27 June 2007

Bring it home
Rising fuel costs, concerns over congestion and carbon emissions, global consumerism – perhaps the time has come for a change in production planning. Penelope Ody ...
Published: 01 May 2007

Make an event of it
Managing a large amount of data in real-time used to demand supercomputers, teams of highly-paid IT experts, years of work and a lot of money. Today, complex event processing systems are turning it into a lower budget affair. Penelope Ody ...
Published: 01 April 2007

Reaching Out
Retail supply chains used to be about manufacturers sending goods to shops with the occasional wholesaler or distribution centre in between. Not any more – the extended retail supply chain goes to the shelf, the shopping basket and even the kitchen...
Published: 01 March 2007

A Shift to the East
The reshaping of the European Union will affect distribution in some profound ways. Romania, regarded by many as a wild frontier, could soon become a significant transit hub. ...
Published: 01 February 2007

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