Ask companies what they want from their supply chains and top of the list is likely to be better availability coupled with a reduction in inventory
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It’s sounds like a storyline for a Hollywood film – brilliant teenager hacks into government computer system, and goes on to save the world
UPS has got its deal to buy TNT, but what will it mean for competition in the global express market? The possibilities are not as obvious as they might appear
One of the issues highlighted by last year’s natural disasters in Asia has been the use of insurance in the supply chain
For much of the past 20 years (at least), the focus of supply chain professionals has been on squeezing every last penny of cost out of operations, but the issue of resilience is pushing its way to the fore…
What do finance chiefs worry about when they get together? Well, it appears that increasingly it is the supply chain. Much of the debate at a recent Economist CFO conference was focused on supply chain risk.
TNT chief Marie-Christine Lombard today set out a group strategy focusing on Europe and using more co-operation agreements for the rest of the world. What she didn’t mention was perhaps the ultimate co-operation agreement – the UPS takeover bid
Asda, part of the giant Walmart group, has just launched a new initiative, the Asda Sustain and Save Exchange, using 2degrees – an online managed service designed to facilitate collaboration on sustainability
Europe’s big freeze has been causing chaos all across the continent, with widespread disruption to transport and infrastructure networks – and in some places even deaths
It says a lot about the perception of supply chain that it is now a subject of debate at the World Economic Forum. And, the fact that it chose to focus on risk is hardly a surprise…
