Retailers are facing challenges and opportunities, both in the way they serve their customers and how they interface with suppliers. Nick Allen asks, what are the winning scenarios?
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Perhaps one of the greatest lessons to come out of the recession has been that flexibility and frequent updates to the planning process are critical to the commercial success of the enterprise. Sales and operations planning holds the key.
Lee Iacocca, the man who saved Chrysler back in the 1980s, wrote one of corporate America’s most gripping autobiographies, and in a particularly telling passage describes how, upon his arrival, he discovered thousands and thousands of cars rusting in
As every successful business knows, providing the customer with what they want, when they want it and at a competitive price, is a winning formula. The problem is getting the business to do just that – focus on the customer.
Some of the most sophisticated supply chain thinking has been developed in the hi-tech industries so it should be no surprise that the last two overall winners of European Supply Chain Excellence Awards have come from the Hi Tech, Communications &
The healthcare supply chain has some very distinctive characteristics – decisions can sometimes literally mean the difference between life and death. But what does it take to make a truly successful supply chain in this sector.
The European Logistics Association has launched a web site for sharing knowledge and improving supply chain practice in Europe.
The hunt is now on for the top supply chains in Automotive, Aerospace & Industrial – companies that can challenge for the crown in the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2010.
It would be nice to start by saying: “Now that the dust has settled…” But it hasn’t, and it looks as though the cloud from the Icelandic volcano is going to be around for some time to come.
It’s no joke. On the 1st April, five thousand companies in the UK became affected by new legislation requiring all companies on half-hourly electric meters to register for the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
