The past year has seen some major challenges for supply chain professionals. Economic uncertainty, natural disasters, and the never ending quest to improve performance. But such pressures can also result in the development of innovative ways of doing thin
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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
Recent reports make bleak reading for occupiers but there is a glimmer of rebellion on the horizon and landlords may not be getting it all their own way after all
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.
3PLs are beginning to gripe about the fact that they cannot get decent quality warehouse space ‘for love nor money’
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
