Nokia Siemens Networks is the overall winner in this year’s European Supply Chain Excellence Awards, organised by Supply Chain Standard in partnership with PRTM.
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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.
Sants Pharmaceutical Distributors, part of the Co-operative Group, has pre-let 190,000 sq ft warehouse at Henry Boot’s Meir Park scheme in Stoke on Trent.
Mosaic Fashions, the parent company of a number of high-street fashion brands, is set to implement JDA merchandise planning software to help it more accurately supply its stores based on forecasting demand and analysing sales.
