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As retail chains write down their store assets and high streets atrophy, home delivery becomes increasingly important in the over-all “cost to serve”. Is the model sustainable or will something have to change?
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
The credit squeeze resulting from the recession put the focus firmly on supply chain finance as major corporations got to grips with the fact that some of their suppliers were struggling to finance their activities
Unilever has just announced that it has cut its carbon dioxide output by one million tonnes over the past five years – a significant milestone
The fall-out from the horsemeat scandal is continuing with research showing a slowdown in the growth of the £2bn ready meals market
