Extended Supply Chain 2011 opens tomorrow, and will bring together supply chain leaders from a range of industry sectors to discuss, network and debate supply chain best practice and operational excellence
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The Extended Supply Chain conference programme is packed with strategic insight, innovative thinking and useful tools for enhancing visibility, responsiveness and flexibility across the supply chain. Here’s what to expect. By Nick Allen.
When Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, the software vendor became a manufacturing company overnight
Microsoft has been developing an out-sourced supply chain, focusing on a strategy, design and partnership which has led it to be truly demand driven
If only we had spent as much time focusing on human behaviour as on competitive analysis over the past three decades, our supply chains would be performing much better today
Builders merchant Travis Perkins has chosen Briggs Equipment for a £5 million contract to supply nearly 400 trucks and other materials handling equipment to one of the country’s largest builders’ merchants and home improvement retailers
Builders’ merchant Travis Perkins was keen to distribute a new range of hazardous products from its central distribution warehouse in Brackmills, Northampton, but required special storage provisions to do so.
Travis Perkins has taken ProLogis Brackmills DC1 warehouse on a 17 year lease in an off market deal
Robin Proctor, group supply chain director at Travis Perkins, says the supply chain in the buildings and construction sector is underdeveloped compared with other areas.
