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For much of the past 20 years (at least), the focus of supply chain professionals has been on squeezing every last penny of cost out of operations, but the issue of resilience is pushing its way to the fore…
What do finance chiefs worry about when they get together? Well, it appears that increasingly it is the supply chain. Much of the debate at a recent Economist CFO conference was focused on supply chain risk.
TNT chief Marie-Christine Lombard today set out a group strategy focusing on Europe and using more co-operation agreements for the rest of the world. What she didn’t mention was perhaps the ultimate co-operation agreement – the UPS takeover bid
Asda, part of the giant Walmart group, has just launched a new initiative, the Asda Sustain and Save Exchange, using 2degrees – an online managed service designed to facilitate collaboration on sustainability
Europe’s big freeze has been causing chaos all across the continent, with widespread disruption to transport and infrastructure networks – and in some places even deaths
It says a lot about the perception of supply chain that it is now a subject of debate at the World Economic Forum. And, the fact that it chose to focus on risk is hardly a surprise…
It’s hardly an unknown problem. Ever since computers were put to use in business the difficulty has not been in generating information, but in isolating the critical pieces of information that make the difference between success and failure
Apple terminated business with one of its suppliers last year for repeated human right violations at its plant – and it is working with another repeat offender to correct its human rights practices
China has dominated supply chain thinking over the past few years – but the business environment is changing
