The growth on online sales seems to be unstoppable. In the UK, for example, high street sales have fallen over the past couple of months but online sales are growing strongly
Author: supplychainmag
As aftershocks continue to hit Japan, and automotive plants around the world adjust to shortages of key components, perhaps it’s time to re-think our approach to supply chain risk.
His company has never been the biggest, but it caught the public imagination in a way that no other logistics operator has.
There is nothing as likely to provoke professionals as seeing their profession belittled, so when the “Financial Times” last week described supply chain as “the humdrum business of shifting widgets from one location to another” (FT 22nd March), I was not
The scale of last Friday’s 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan and the devastating impact of its tsunami on the costal region north of Tokyo will, almost certainly, cause reverberations across global supply chains.
Billions of pounds have been saved by companies through supply chain improvements over the past year. So are you keeping up with your peers?
When I was a child, China was regarded in the West as a deeply threatening place – the home of Mao Tse-Tung and his particularly hard line form of communism.
Transport and logistics is the only sector in Europe in which greenhouse gas emissions are significantly increasing instead of decreasing, according to PE International, a German consultancy specialising in sustainability.
How long should a supply chain be? Can it ever be overly extended or just too complex? What’s that Goldilocks principle that makes a supply chain just right?
Last year the United States gave 505,010,020 Apple iPads to China – a handsome gift indeed, equal to 5,800 tons of pure gold.
