People want the product, as a low price, but they really don’t want the hassle. But what does it take to provide convenience and control in a multi-channel environment?
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Does Africa have the potential to be the next major low-cost manufacturing region, following in the footsteps of Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia? It is certainly possible and quite probable as well.
Despite whatever the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics – robustly “disputed” by the British Retail Consortium – would have us believe, sales in the high street are rather less than buoyant. The ONS’s 3.8 per cent year-on-year increase
Pan-European healthcare logistics supplier Movianto has relocated into a 79,263 sq ft unit on Deacon Park in Knowsley, Merseyside known as The Rack.
Sants Pharmaceutical Distributors, part of the Co-operative Group, has pre-let 190,000 sq ft warehouse at Henry Boot’s Meir Park scheme in Stoke on Trent.
Mosaic Fashions, the parent company of a number of high-street fashion brands, is set to implement JDA merchandise planning software to help it more accurately supply its stores based on forecasting demand and analysing sales.
Children’s retailer Adams has commissioned Retail Assist to replace its current supply chain and merchandising system with the Merret.NET application.
Along with the current spate of profits warnings and “disappointing” results, we’ve all noticed how retail clearance sales seem to start earlier and earlier each year. Long ago and far away they were in mid-January and July, now mid-December and early Jun
With lean times affecting the purchasing behaviour of the consumer, retailers are going to have to embrace ‘lean thinking’ and adopt a long-term view to partnership if they are going to maintain their margins
Environmental concerns and rising fuel prices mean that the automotive industry is facing fundamental changes. Chris Lewis reports on the impact these changes are likely to have on the supply chain.
