One of the UK’s leading food retailers last week announced that it was starting to produce all its frozen beef from its own dedicated production facility – not only ensuring full traceability but also giving it one of the shortest supply chains in the sec
Author: supplychainmag
The growth of e-commerce means that competition in the retail market is getting ever more intense with a growing numbers of e-tailers offering cut price deals
Almost two thirds of companies put a high priority of improving supply chain visibility, a new survey from the Aberdeen Group has revealed
Supply chain finance is growing at the rate of 30 – 40 per cent a year at major international banks, according to services group Demica…
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The UK’s retail supply chains face major upheavals over the next five years with more than 60,000 shops closing down in the face of continuing austerity and the rise of internet shopping
The global market for supply chain software grew 7.1 per cent last year – pretty impressive given the disappointing performance of the world economy
Almost half of manufacturing executives globally admit that their companies currently do not have visibility of their supply chains beyond Tier 1 suppliers
Any discussion of supply chain risk tends to focus on such things as natural disasters and supplier failures.
The concept of Sales and Operations Planning is hardly new, but a surprisingly large number of companies, 72 per cent, have only started to make use of it in the past five years, according to a survey by consultants Bearing Point
