Browsing: Supply Chain

Winning the hearts and minds of customers should be central to any retailer’s forward strategy, say Daniel Bagge and Keith Burgess. Research indicates that 79 per cent of customers will actively commit to a deeper relationship after a satisfying experienc

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

AILOG and the Cattaneo LIUC University of Castellanza in Italy surveyed 35 leading companies in the beverage, pharmaceutical and home & personal care sectors, in order to gain a greater understanding of the interplay between Sales Forecasting and Demand

Supply chains are becoming more extended and complex as retailers move to sourcing goods on a global basis. Motivated by lower manufacturing costs, retailers and distributors are now confronted by greater complexity in managing the flow of goods to market

Are you geared up to take a slice of the €15.6 billion, 2007 online Christmas cake? With the ghost of Christmas past still stalking retailer’s financial results, its time leading players looked seriously at adopting an Integrated Multi Channel Retail stra

Leading consumer packaged goods companies are collaborating through the Global Upstream Initiative to design a process model and supporting XML message standards which will greatly aid supply chain integration.

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 cupboa

‘Our organisation has spent four or five years trying to define and develop what we mean by sustainable development in the supply chain, and we’ve broken the task into three areas – society, the environment, and economics,’ says Mark Barnett, chief operat