Sephora chooses RedPrairie
Beauty retailer Sephora has gone live with RedPrairie’s Warehouse Management System at its distribution centre in Utah. ... Published:  01 December 2008

M&S focuses on supply chain
Marks & Spencer is responding to the downturn in the retail market with plans to manage its supply chain more tightly.... Published:  04 November 2008

Supply Chain Excellence award winners honoured
Nokia Siemens Networks is the overall winner in this year’s European Supply Chain Excellence Awards, organised by Supply Chain Standard in partnership with PRTM. ... Published:  29 October 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

Belron
Once again the Retail & Distribution category drew plenty of entries and brought past contestants back into competition with each other. ... Published:  01 December 2008

Time to take stock of the supply chain
At a time when businesses across the world are facing tough economic times, retailers have the option to take stock and review their strategies and identify the appropriate back office improvements to deliver an agile and flexible supply chain without... Published:  01 December 2008

Balancing risk
Two major humanitarian disasters - the Burmese cyclone and the Chinese earthquake - provided a sombre backdrop to ''Supply Chain Standard''s Roundtable discussion on supply chain risk. But as Dave Food, business development director from the meeting's ... Published:  30 May 2008

Getting to grips with collaboration
For an older generation, ''collaboration'' has a sinister sound. But in the modern, dispersed and globalised supply chain, collaboration, up and down the chain, or even with apparent competitors, may be desirable or even essential ... Published:  30 May 2008