Browsing: Logistics & Supply Chain

Is your supply chain outperforming your competition? Then it must be time to enter the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2013

Getting paid is still tough, but buyers are becoming far more aware of the plight of suppliers and are using new financial tools to help cash flow through the chain more easily. By Nick Allen

The opening of the Castle Donington distribution centre opens the way for the retailer to push ahead with its supply chain strategy, says Malory Davies

Three of the world’s leading car manufacturers have created a collaborative community. Here they talk about how it came about

Supply chain has traditionally been the backbone of business, but new factors are shifting the boardroom focus, making it the hero of the tale, says Johanna Parsons

The UK’s retail supply chains face major upheavals over the next five years with more than 60,000 shops closing down in the face of continuing austerity and the rise of internet shopping

The global market for supply chain software grew 7.1 per cent last year – pretty impressive given the disappointing performance of the world economy

Almost half of manufacturing executives globally admit that their companies currently do not have visibility of their supply chains beyond Tier 1 suppliers

Any discussion of supply chain risk tends to focus on such things as natural disasters and supplier failures.

The concept of Sales and Operations Planning is hardly new, but a surprisingly large number of companies, 72 per cent, have only started to make use of it in the past five years, according to a survey by consultants Bearing Point