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

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

As pressure mounts on major corporations to be seen to be operating in a sustainable way, it has opened up a world of opportunities to a new breed of organisation dedicated to helping them get their supply chains in order

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

UK marketing chief John Stocker explains the automotive specialist’s strategy to Johanna Parsons

As retail chains write down their store assets and high streets atrophy, home delivery becomes increasingly important in the over-all “cost to serve”. Is the model sustainable or will something have to change?

Over five million square feet of big box building developed before the downturn have now been taken up – so what’s left? Liza Helps investigates

A shortage of the right type of stock is causing headaches for occupiers even in the oversupplied North, reports Liza Helps

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

Massive e-commerce is driving rapid growth in the number of packages being delivered each year, so companies are going to have to think hard about their packaging systems and materials, says Johanna Parsons