The global Pharmaceutical Sector is embarking on a step change transformation journey in which the supply chain will play a strategic change management role. Healthcare reform, patent expiries and increased service requirements will require pharma-ceutical companies …
Due to the challenging economic conditions of the last few years, many CPO’s have reverted to the old school methods of procurement: achieving savings through squeezing suppliers and contract renegotiations. We feel this trend is …
The global manufacturing sector has undergone a tumultuous decade: large developing economies leaped into the first tier of manufacturing nations, a severe recession choked off demand, and manufacturing employment fell at an accelerated rate in …
Although global trade was severely restricted during the financial crisis, it has since bounced back strongly, led by trade with emerging markets. Global trade was dominated by the advanced nations at the start of the …
The Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry faced another year of challenges from economic turbulence and weak consumer confidence in 2011. Given the volatility and rapid pace of promotional activities and product innovation, the gradual increase …
Yossi Sheffi, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, opens his book Logistics Clusters with detailed descriptions of the fashion chain Zara and the Spanish fish supplier Caladero. Sheffi’s reason for highlighting …
Ikea is not a particularly open company. It is not publicly listed, and it has been known to refuse journalists and financial analysts admission to presentations, even at congresses that were open to the public. …
KPMG’s latest report on supply chain maturity investigates how supply chain directors are managing in this uncertain world and seeks to understand how supply chains have matured since our survey last year. The report is …
This is the third consecutive year that SCM World has published its annual Chief Supply Chain Officer Report. In July 2012 almost 1,400 practitioners from a wide range of industries and geographies completed a 40-question …
It is an exciting and a challenging time for chief supply chain officers. Recognition of their function’s importance has increased markedly in recent years. The supply chain is playing a more central role in coping …
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