Supply Chain & Logistics
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Supply Chain News
Sainsbury's and Asda set up youth training schemes
Sainsbury’s and Asda are setting up training schemes to push food as a career choice to young people.
John Lewis commercial director takes on 'bricks and clicks'
John Lewis has charged commercial director Andrea O’Donnell with overseeing retail development, format development and retail implementation at the department store chain.
99p Stores to build stores empire as it targets turnover of £1bn
99p Stores is gunning to open more than 200 stores by 2014, taking its store count to 350, and is targeting turnover of £1bn by 2016.
Advertising Feature
The Heroes of Home Delivery are here
The solution the home delivery market has been waiting for is now here, a one hour delivery window, which will make waiting in all day for your parcel to arrive a thing of the past.
Supply Chain Supplement
Supply Chain Summit: The customer is king
The challenges facing supply chains continue, but at the Retail Week Supply Chain Summit retailers agreed the customer is becoming ever more important. Joanna Perry reports
The benefits of local sourcing
Local sourcing can not only be cost effective, it can help build community ties, says Liz Morrell
Supply Chain In Depth
A systematic approach to supply chains
The majority of retailers have tried to improve their supply chain operations in the past year. Joanna Perry finds how IT has been assisting them.
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Air freight: The sky’s the limit
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Are retailers providing cost-effective delivery choices?
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Even creative minds need a head for business
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Under discussion: online fulfilment
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Retailers and suppliers: An exercise in trust
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Between a rock and a hard place
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Fulfilment: Delivering the goods
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When suppliers break the chain
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Loss prevention IT: Beating the new crime wave
Gap quick to respond to factory allegations
Gap should be lauded for its swift and thorough response to allegations of illegal dumping of harmful waste by a factory in Lesotho that makes jeans for the retailer.
Retail Surgery
Ensuring safety claims made by suppliers are legitimate
We’ve had to recall a few products recently. How can we ensure the safety claims made by our suppliers are legitimate?
Freight trains and supply chains
Our competitors are using freight trains to move stock. Would it benefit my supply chain?
