Demand forecasting is a given, but demand chain optimisation is something very different.
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During the last logistics conference of the Czech Logistics Association (CLA) Motoki Inatsuka, vice president of the Japanese Institute of Logistics Systems gave a presentation on logistics developments in Japan versus China. Could we translate that to co
New technology can not only solve business problems, but also improve the way people interact, according to Caradon’s director of IT.
‘Making product available is critical to the way you compete,’ says the eminent British supply chain thinker and academic
Real-time retailing is already having a major impact on supply chains.
Last year 19 PhD students from 11 European countries where brought together by the Research and Development Committee for the 7th ELA Doctorate Workshop. The students were selected by the committee based on three page abstracts of their research proposals
Logistics contracts could be the ideal test-bed for the new theory of ‘open book costing’. But they must be implemented with a focus not on what costs are but on what they should and could be.
Are you active in the consumer goods logistics environment? Then we have good news. The European Logistics Association (ELA), in co-operation with Kurt Salmon Associates (KSA), is to research how well the industry utilises the improvement potential still
It may be a low-cost way to high profits. But could your supply chain become part of one of the new ‘adaptive business networks’? That’s the vision of co-authors, Claus Heinrich and Bob Betts
A Survey on the influence of supply chain management on strategy and finance. Results of the ELA/BearingPoint survey.
