It’s going to take a considerable amount of time to reconstruct supply chains disrupted by the earthquake and tsumani in Japan
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The growth on online sales seems to be unstoppable. In the UK, for example, high street sales have fallen over the past couple of months but online sales are growing strongly
As aftershocks continue to hit Japan, and automotive plants around the world adjust to shortages of key components, perhaps it’s time to re-think our approach to supply chain risk.
The company that Edward Stobart built may not be the biggest, but it has caught the public imagination in a way that no other logistics operator has
His company has never been the biggest, but it caught the public imagination in a way that no other logistics operator has.
New supply chain challenges will call for skills that are not in the manuals
The Olympics may be 16 months away, but already the logistics of keeping shelves filled and deliveries on schedule to satisfy the ten million expected visitors is starting to cause headaches.
For months now the rising price of fuel has been a dominant issue for transport operators – particularly smaller operators…
There is nothing as likely to provoke professionals as seeing their profession belittled, so when the “Financial Times” last week described supply chain as “the humdrum business of shifting widgets from one location to another” (FT 22nd March), I was not
The scale of last Friday’s 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan and the devastating impact of its tsunami on the costal region north of Tokyo will, almost certainly, cause reverberations across global supply chains.
