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]]> Logistics has a voice – and it’s female https://production.logisticsmanager.com/5056-logistics-has-a-voice-and-its-female/ Tue, 02 Sep 2014 10:28:23 +0000 http://scratch2.myshowroomsite.com/?p=98 Ever wondered what the logistics industry sounds like to the outside world? Bloke-ish perhaps? Loud and a bit hard? Something like Michael Caine perhaps?

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]]> Now Uber takes on the parcels business https://production.logisticsmanager.com/5049-now-uber-takes-on-the-parcels-business/ Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:10:23 +0000 http://scratch2.myshowroomsite.com/?p=91 A couple of months ago I suggested that there might be a role for a freight version of Uber, the mobile phone app that allows customers to book and track mini-cabs

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]]> Risk index at an 18 month low https://production.logisticsmanager.com/5041-risk-index-at-an-18-month-low/ Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:36:00 +0000 http://scratch2.myshowroomsite.com/?p=83 The news is full of conflict at the moment - conflict in Gaza, in Iraq and the Ukraine. And then there is the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. So it would be reasonable to assume that supply chain risk is increasing

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]]> Disruption is the new normal in retail https://production.logisticsmanager.com/5035-disruption-is-the-new-normal-in-retail/ Mon, 11 Aug 2014 16:30:00 +0000 http://scratch2.myshowroomsite.com/?p=77 Disruption is the new normal in retail – at least that is what the latest Forbes Insight report suggests

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]]> Food for thought… https://production.logisticsmanager.com/5027-food-for-thought/ Mon, 04 Aug 2014 16:10:00 +0000 http://scratch2.myshowroomsite.com/?p=69 The UK government feeds a lot of mouths each year people in schools, hospitals, armed forces, central and local government, government agencies, prisons and courts. The procurement budget for food and catering services is now running at £2.4bn a year

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]]> Grocery changes challenge supply chains https://production.logisticsmanager.com/5023-grocery-changes-challenge-supply-chains/ Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:37:36 +0000 http://scratch2.myshowroomsite.com/?p=65 Over the next five years, the UK grocery market is to grow by 16.3 per cent to £203bn, according to a new five year forecast from the IGD. That sounds very healthy, but that basic figure conceals some trends that will be exercising minds...

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]]> Time to license supply chain professionals? https://production.logisticsmanager.com/5017-time-to-license-supply-chain-professionals/ Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:24:00 +0000 http://scratch2.myshowroomsite.com/?p=59 More than one in ten business leaders think modern slavery is likely to be in their supply chains, according to a poll by YouGov for the Chartered Instituted of Purchasing and Supply. And the institute is now warning that the UK could be sleepwalking into

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]]> Child labour: the supply chain scandal that keeps repeating https://production.logisticsmanager.com/5008-child-labour-the-supply-chain-scandal-that-keeps-repeating/ Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:25:38 +0000 http://scratch2.myshowroomsite.com/?p=51 There’s always a bit of excitement about opening up the packaging on a new mobile phone, but for many Samsung buyers that will now be tinged with the disconcerting realisation that child labour may well have been used in the construction of their new phon

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]]> Can you see the returns utopia? https://production.logisticsmanager.com/5006-can-you-see-the-returns-utopia/ Tue, 08 Jul 2014 09:53:00 +0000 http://scratch2.myshowroomsite.com/?p=49 Can you imagine a utopia when returns are not just a black hole for inventory and resources, but a bona fide revenue stream, adding value for customers and even cost reductions? Ian Towell, head of general merchandise returns at Tesco can...

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