Retail supply chain systems are becoming more integrated, more extensive and more complex – but are they helping to keep the shelves filled?

With so many variables – cost, lead-time, response to consumer trends – it can seem as though the odds are stacked heavily against the retailer. How can buyers make the best sourcing decisions to beat the odds?

Mergers and acquisition activity and speculation in the European logistics industry has continued at an unrelenting pace.

‘It is possible for the seller to sell, the retailer to retail, and the supply chain specialist to do everything in between.’ Although this statement is undoubtedly true, the issues are whether the outsourced supply chain management sector is really capab

The high street is a pretty cold place to be at the moment. Margins are under pressure as retailers markdown to clear stock in a lacklustre market. But pushing inventory through store at discount is no way to make the shareholders happy.

Commercial property developer Rosemound is set for a November completion for the 60,387sq m Pioneer Point distribution building in Ellesmere Port.

Plans are being drawn up to develop more industrial and distribution units at Ashton Moss in East Manchester.

Trying to work out what the latest must-haves are in the high street is no easy task. So it comes as no surprise that demand forecasting is ranking ever higher on the supply chain management wish-list.

NAI Fuller Peiser and the FTA have carried out research into the effect of the Road Transport Directive on businesses nationwide. The latest findings highlight significant impact on the industrial and logistics sector in the South-east.

Clothing manufacturer Red Inc is using Prolog Logistics to handle the warehousing and distribution of its three key clothing brands.