How capable are we of transforming our supply chains? Confidence may be growing in terms of a recovering economy and expectations of increased demand; however, findings from two recent high level surveys suggest that this optimism is tempered by a lack of
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Every four years we go into the World Cup with high hopes for our teams, but the performance of the English, French, German and Italian teams over the weekend seems to have left most of Europe in a state of depression.
Cloud computing has been one of the big success stories in the supply chain software world over the past couple of years. But while it might seem that the bandwagon is unstoppable, a note of warning has been sounded by IT research group Gartner
Mars Petcare had been in search of an IT solution to improve management of its sales and operations data, but a discussion with Oliver Wight has led to a different approach
AMR Research has just revealed its Top 25 supply chains and, for the third year running, Apple has come top.
We can all point to some of the initiatives that companies are looking at to make their supply chains more environmentally-friendly.
Retailers are facing challenges and opportunities, both in the way they serve their customers and how they interface with suppliers. Nick Allen asks, what are the winning scenarios?
Perhaps one of the greatest lessons to come out of the recession has been that flexibility and frequent updates to the planning process are critical to the commercial success of the enterprise. Sales and operations planning holds the key.
Information technology is all too often the elephant in the room, but retail market specialist Penelope Ody thinks it might be time to think small.
Lee Iacocca, the man who saved Chrysler back in the 1980s, wrote one of corporate America’s most gripping autobiographies, and in a particularly telling passage describes how, upon his arrival, he discovered thousands and thousands of cars rusting in
