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.
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Sales and operations planning is a critical process for most businesses – ensuring that corporate aims are put into effect. But just how good are companies at it? By Nick Allen.
Thanks to changing technology, concepts that were once regarded as innovative, high risk, too complex or simply too expensive are rapidly becoming standard – and that applies both to IT and logistics services.
With retailers experiencing a toxic mix of increasing commodity prices, rising fuel costs and a hike in VAT, the focus for most in 2011 will be on inventory reduction, cost containment and supply chain optimisation. By Nick Allen.
Amazon is now selling more books in electronic format than in paperback
I admit that I have no obvious examples to back up this claim, but I am going to make it anyway: supply chain initiatives saved some companies from bankruptcy during the recession
Sitting down to write about money on what the papers say is the most depressing day of the year might seem a trifle perverse.
Janet Napolitano was in Brussels last week to whip up support for the US government’s strategy to outwit any potential terrorist threat – and supply chain was clearly a the top of the agenda.
Sitting in the middle of a blizzard, it would be easy to focus on the difficulties supply chain professionals face at this time of year. But I am much more interested in looking forward into next year and opportunities ahead.
“Hacktivism” grabbed the headlines last week as a group of collaborating hackers, known as Anonymous, disrupted MasterCard’s online payment processing system for several hours.
