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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?
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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
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Published:
04 November 2008
Chip and win
Why there are no losers when outsourcing is done intelligently and collaboratively. Sam Sharma
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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.
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Published:
04 November 2008
Risk: A complex problem
Managing a global supply chain is getting more difficult and more risky, but the focus of Europe's multinational companies is starkly different from that of their North American counterparts.
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Published:
04 November 2008
Challenging times for 3Pls
Are third party logistics service providers really giving the market what it wants?
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Published:
04 November 2008
Hone those knife skills
Smart bosses know the impact of costs on their operations. And they may even have a good sense of where more improvement is needed. But their main aim, when markets are growing, is to promote and sustain that growth.
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Published:
01 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.
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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.
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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
The rising cost of ERP support
The November annual conference of the SAP UK and Ireland User Group promises to throw light on an increasingly contentious aspect of logistics IT: the cost of running enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
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Published:
03 October 2008
Matching makes invoice heaven
Why intelligent matching is key to gaining control of payment cycles - and saving cash throughout capturing early settlement discounts.
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Published:
03 October 2008
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