Companies may be slightly more confident about prospects for 2010 but, caution is still very much the key word.
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When Elvis sang “A little less conversation, a little more action please” back in 1968, it’s a fair bet that he wasn’t referring to collaboration in the supply chain.
TV pundits got terribly excited the other day when it was announced that the headline GDP growth rate for the last quarter of 2009 was 0.3 per cent rather than the 0.1 per cent that the government originally estimated.
The Dalai Lama dropped by at the White House for tea the other day – innocuous enough you might think, but it was enough to enrage the Chinese Government.
This time last year corporate bosses were in the depths of despair, wondering just how bad things would get. Twelve months on the situation looks far more optimistic, although recovery for most is still regarded as fragile.
When we talk about China, we tend to concentrate on the rapid growth in its manufacturing industry with companies moving production there from Europe or the US.
It might come as a surprise to hear that The 40th World Economic Forum, that jamboree for the great and the good that takes place each year at Davos in Switzerland, has just concluded.
Some of the cleverest technology in the supply chain is going into multi-channel retailing. But at the end of the process someone has to deliver the goods to the customer’s home. And that last few feet is where the biggest problems lie.
As tens of thousands of people lie under the rubble in Haiti and a further 300,000 are made homeless, we are reminded of the devastating impact a major earthquake has on a community and the critical role humanitarian logistics operations serve in bringing
The amount of inventory in the pipeline has increased dramatically as have landed costs as a result of changes in global supply chains – competition, ongoing business transformation, increased lead times and complexity.
