Browsing: Supply Chain Analysis

The legislator and the consumer are demanding improved food safety. Addressing these demands presents a wider commercial opportunity – to protect consumers and brands, whilst maximising profit in the food supply chain. Here’s a healthy diet for trim figur

The public sector is the supply chain’s final frontier but managers are beginning to face up to the task of reform. The stakes are high, but so are the possible gains.

In this season of goodwill towards men, suppliers, our thoughts turn to the role of trust in supply chain relationships

With Sony looking to reduce parts by a staggering 90 per cent, the push for parts rationalisation in the high tech sector is in full swing. Product obsolescence is the driving factor and Product Life Cycle Management is a facilitator but, agility is what

Planning based on intelligent systems and clever algorithms created high tech – and highly complex – solutions but now real-time information flows and web services provide easier options.

‘We are using technology to offer the same experience worldwide,’ says the chairman of internet shopping success, figleaves.com

These are exciting times on the washing powder shelves, as consumer packaged goods manufacturers employ some bright thinking to smarten up their supply chains.

RFID will make available a thousand times more information. How are you going to identify and act on what’s important? Some views from the Oriana

On 1st May 2004, ten new countries will become EU Member States. This, the largest expansion in its history, provides an opportunity for corporate Europe to extend its tax effective supply chains into new territories. The returns could be substantial.