Browsing: Supply Chain

The purchasing and procurement arm of home improvement company Weldom is to roll out several software packages from Manhattan Associates across its entire supply network.

The brain chains controlling logistics operations, supply chain execution systems, are increasingly under scrutiny as companies position themselves to take advantage of changing economic conditions. Jessica Davies reports.

As online retail sales gain significance hitherto unheard of, reaching 5.2 per cent of all retail sales in 2007, e-fulfilment is no longer an issue that can be ignored. For many high street brands online sales are now critical to overall profitability. Ju

Supply chain visibility is a critical issue in the development of trade between the Far East and Europe but industrial fragmentation can hide the true source of a product. Jiim Ridgwick, who leads Deolitte’s Sourcing practice for China provides some illum

People want the product, as a low price, but they really don’t want the hassle. But what does it take to provide convenience and control in a multi-channel environment?

Does Africa have the potential to be the next major low-cost manufacturing region, following in the footsteps of Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia? It is certainly possible and quite probable as well.

Despite whatever the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics – robustly “disputed” by the British Retail Consortium – would have us believe, sales in the high street are rather less than buoyant. The ONS’s 3.8 per cent year-on-year increase

Pan-European healthcare logistics supplier Movianto has relocated into a 79,263 sq ft unit on Deacon Park in Knowsley, Merseyside known as The Rack.