When was the last time you saw an automotive component supplier blockading a motor manufacturer? Or angry component supplier executives…
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The issue of supply chain finance came to prominence during the recession as large corporations started to realise that the…
High Speed 2, the planned fast rail link from London to various points north, promises to be a massive boost…
Are we ready to make the next big conceptual leap in the way we think about supply chains? In fact,…
You could almost hear the sigh of relief among financial analysts last month when they saw Tesco’s first quarter results…
Some 36 per cent of senior managers in retailers and manufacturers reckon their organisations have too much cash tied up…
It has become a platitude to say that returns are a problem for retailers – particularly with the growth of…
It’s all too easy to find examples of malpractice in extended supply chains – dodgy employment practices, use of child…
Twenty years ago, it was only too apparent that many organisations did not harness their supply chain as effectively as…
Extraction of shale gas has received a lot of bad publicity in the UK – with dire warnings of houses…
