With retailers experiencing a toxic mix of increasing commodity prices, rising fuel costs and a hike in VAT, the focus for most in 2011 will be on inventory reduction, cost containment and supply chain optimisation. By Nick Allen.
Browsing: Supply Chain
Eurozone retailers had a bumper month in January, according to the Markit Retail Purchasing Managers’ Index
Some 60 per cent of retailers now offer next-day delivery, while 25 per cent offer Saturday delivery, according to Snow Valley’s 2011 Online Delivery Report
FedEx has launched a service for shipping healthcare products around the world that uses nitrogen vapour technology
Fashion Week events has extended its contract with DHL to cover its shows in Paris, Zurich and Tokyo
Samsung Electronics has installed Manhattan Associates’ WMS at its new automated, 55,000 sq ft national distribution centre at the Vorsino industrial park in Kaluga, 50 miles south west of Moscow
Arrow Electronics has launched a full-service reverse supply chain business segment
Norwich based Norse Group has selected Jaama’s online Key2 vehicle management system to manage its vehicles and workshops
Growth in internet sales is likely to underpin the logistics property market this year, according to King Sturge’s Property Predictions 2011
Retailers have been counting the cost of the snow in the run-up to Christmas which not only disrupted supply chains but also kept shoppers at home
