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

Al Safeer Group chooses Oracle
Al Safeer Group, a company with interests in retail, malls, entertainment and real estate across the Middle East, has selected Oracle Retail Applications and E-Business Suite. ... Published:  20 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

Coping with the crunch
The posters in the high street say it all: "half-price sale", "up to 70 per cent off", "extra discount today". As the "credit crunch" continues to bite, discretionary spending plummets and sales at discounters soar. How is the current downturn hitting... Published:  04 November 2008

Instant Gratification
As online retail sales gain significance hitherto unheard of, reaching 5.2 per cent of all retail sales in 2007, e-fulfilment is no longer an issue that can be ignored. For many high street brands online sales are now critical to overall profitability.... Published:  03 October 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