Read the latest annual report of practically any major company and you will find lots of references to reducing inventory, conserving cash in the business, and improving sourcing practices.
Browsing: Logistics & Supply Chain
Joining a third party logistics provider in the middle of a recession might reasonably be regarded as a baptism of fire, but Leigh Pomlett is now putting growth firmly back on the agenda. He talks to Malory Davies.
The need to inject capital into the supply chain more quickly has stepped up a notch in the past year, and with it has come the rise of an alternative funding structure – supply chain financing. Jessica Davies investigates.
As flexibility, short production runs and responsiveness to market demands become the survival factors for 2010, can global supply chains deliver performance as well as price? By NIck Allen
Just as we were all getting used to talking about supply chain rather than logistics, it appears that the term is running out of steam and no longer describes what (for want of a better expression) supply chains do.
Wars, earthquakes and floods can all cause major disruption to supply chains and it is all too easy to think of supply chain disruption in these terms.
Companies may be slightly more confident about prospects for 2010 but, caution is still very much the key word.
When Elvis sang “A little less conversation, a little more action please” back in 1968, it’s a fair bet that he wasn’t referring to collaboration in the supply chain.
TV pundits got terribly excited the other day when it was announced that the headline GDP growth rate for the last quarter of 2009 was 0.3 per cent rather than the 0.1 per cent that the government originally estimated.
The Dalai Lama dropped by at the White House for tea the other day – innocuous enough you might think, but it was enough to enrage the Chinese Government.
