The launch of new procurement solution Profiler by supply chain and procurement specialist TiVA is set to completely change supply chain management by creating more efficiently managed buyer-supplier relationships and reducing the adversarial relat
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To gain the benefits of outsourcing, many firms will have either to become more adept at the process as a core competency or be willing to outsource the outsourcing process istself.
While car industry chiefs usually highlight labour costs and productivity as the main drivers of change, the supply chain holds the potential for some big wins
— and ones that are perhaps more immediately
realisable.
For years, retailers and their suppliers have been eulogising the need to collaborate – supported by a bewildering array of IT systems and an equally confusing assortment of acronym very little true collaboration has occurred — but finally that looks set
High street giant Woolworths has contracted supply chain specialist Gist to manage a new strategically important distribution centre (DC) on its behalf as part of a £50M deal.
Toyota spent 30 years perfecting the concept of lean manufacturing. It tweaked, it dabbled, it questioned, and it refused to accept conventional wisdom. We all know the result: supply chain professionals still identify the car giant’s operation as a near-
The Sudan 1 food scare highlights the need for traceability in the supply chain, and the need for global product information standards.
Here’s how one global medical technology and healthcare company has cured its supply chain problems by becoming more demand-driven.
Though he claims once to have had a ‘real’ job with British Steel, the president of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport is that rare breed — a career consultant and academic who feels no need to apologise
There is no doubt that information technology continues to form the backbone of any organisation with an evolved logistics operation. The latest breed of logistics software products is providing forward thinking companies with the ability to have greater
