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.
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Let’s start with the good news – growth is back on the agenda after one of the toughest years on record, and the new year promises to bring new supply chain opportunities – along with a few challenges.
Time and again research is showing that managing supply chain risk is a priority for companies, but can they achieve that at the same time as hitting their cost reduction targets? Malory Davies looks at the issues
There is no doubt that last year was a tough one for everyone involved in supply chain and logistics adjusting to radically new trading conditions, becoming more agile to deal with rapid changes in the market, managing risk more effectively, and all the t
Are we saying that logistics is a low skill sector where there is no need for a “new technician class”?
It sounds like a nice little Christmas gift – £110 billion. Consultants Booz and Company calculate that this is how much excess working capital is sloshing around in British companies.
Last month business secretary Lord Mandelson announced, with something of a fanfare, the creation of the new Automotive Council. But linked with it was another announcement that predictably attracted rather less publicity
As more than eighty heads of state jet in to support the Copenhagen climate change summit this week, few can be under any misapprehension that carbon reduction is falling from importance.
An expert and efficient ‘solution’ to help cut costs should be a priority.
What is standard delivery? It would be natural to assume that there is common understanding of the terms and costs. Certainly, it would be help to customers if there was an agreed definition.
