Yesterday, “cyber Monday”, UK shoppers were expected to spend £550 million online, according to Experian
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…believe me it is – especially if you are looking for Grade A shed space. A quirk of fate saw that the there was a huge over-supply of large speculatively built warehouses…
Sitting in an office in western Europe it is all too easy to be drawn into a stereotypical view of how global supply chains work – with the focus firmly on the links between Europe, North America and China…
Most UK organisation are adopting short term tactics in the hope of keeping their supply chains ticking over – and only a minority are fully reorganising business operations to ensure that they are able to cope with volatile levels of demand
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance,” says Orson Welles in The Third Man. “In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of dem
Let’s, for one moment, leave aside the row over the £80m EU loan to Ford to boost Transit production in non-EU Turkey – while it closes its Southampton plant. It’s an embarrassment for chancellor George Osborne, but
It was parcelled up as a gift but in fact the government is quietly pulling the wool over the eyes of business safe in the knowledge that businesses have no vote
Walmart is demanding that its suppliers of laptop computers set them up so that by default they go into sleep mode after ten minutes of inactivity
One of the biggest problems highlighted by the recession has been funding the supply chain.
British prime minister David Cameron is now promoting a supply chain finance initiative designed to deliver up to £20 billion
UK grocery manufacturers and retailers are beating their targets for cutting supply chain waste, according to WRAP, the government-backed organisation driving improvements in waste management
