To gain the benefits of outsourcing, many firms will have either to become more adept at the process as a core competency or be willing to outsource the outsourcing process istself.
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While car industry chiefs usually highlight labour costs and productivity as the main drivers of change, the supply chain holds the potential for some big wins
— and ones that are perhaps more immediately
realisable.
For years, retailers and their suppliers have been eulogising the need to collaborate – supported by a bewildering array of IT systems and an equally confusing assortment of acronym very little true collaboration has occurred — but finally that looks set
There is no doubt that information technology continues to form the backbone of any organisation with an evolved logistics operation. The latest breed of logistics software products is providing forward thinking companies with the ability to have greater
Supermarket giant Tesco can confidently claim to be delivering the goods with its Internet shopping arm having appointed mobile computing specialist Xperience to supply 300 of its largest shops with a state-of-the-art electronic order picking and f
Twinings has renewed its contract with TNT Network Logistics until the end of 2006. TNT Network Logistics manages a supply chain solution including the annual storage and distribution of more than eleven million cases of tea, Options and Ova
Exel is a partner in one of two external consortia that have been short-listed to manage the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) new logistics contract that will drive cost savings and service improvements through the supply chains of the Army, Royal Navy
Chloride Motive Power (CMP) and Jungheinrich have been selected to meet the materials handling/traction power requirements for a leading DIY retailer. The on-going contract covers 320-plus sites throughout the country.
For the finalists of the eighth year of the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards, gathered at The Dorchester Hotel on the evening of the 18th November, there could have been few surprises that the overall winner’s trophy went to Dell.
The Supply Chain Excellence Award for Innovation is itself an innovation this year. The judges had in mind both true innovation – processes, methods or technologies that have never been seen before – but also innovation in the sense of introducing a techn
