Now is your chance to test yourself against the best in the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2012. And the Hi Tech, Communications and Electronics sector provides a serious test of excellence…
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Is the Far East still the best place to source components? It’s the commonly accepted wisdom, but it is now being challenged in the UK by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders
Consumer electronics firm Armour Home reckons it is now hitting 99.5 per cent OTIF following a warehouse optimisation project
B&M Retail is putting four times more cargo through the Port of Liverpool in 2012 than it did last year, after signing a contract with Peel Ports Mersey to import 12,000 TEUs of cargo
Enterprise Resource Planning systems have served linear supply chains well over the years. But, with the emergence of complex supply chain networks, requirements have changed…
The growth of multi-channel operations is transforming the way UK retailers do business – and that includes supply chain operations and opportunities for logistics providers
To an outsider it must look slightly schizophrenic. On the one hand retailers and suppliers are looking for ways to take vehicles off the road. On the other, retailers are increasingly demanding next day delivery of ambient goods.
Future progress on collaboration relies on honing the creativity of supply chain professionals to realise the potential that exists outside traditional activities; to venture into the dark side – co-opetition
A new era of sales & operations planning has arrived as companies learn to deal with an increasingly volatile business environment
Major supply chain IT projects can deliver significant benefits, but when things go wrong the penalties of failure soon hit the headlines – and the bottom line
