The anticipated growth in business-to-business (B2B) online sales is set to transform the supply chain, according to a study by management consultants, AT Kearney. However, the AT Kearney Supply Chain Study emphasised that improving the supply...
A new alliance between HP and SAP offering supply chain management solutions will prove popular with customers despite a crowded marketplace, according to a B2B expert. The two companies have already established centres to pre-configure and pre...
The oil- and gas-producing subsidiary of Centrica hopes the deal will reap operational efficiencies in the supply chain to its offshore production platforms and improve reporting. The portal will provide all of BGHR's supply chain needs and will...
UPS has launched a business unit called UPS Supply Chain Solutions. The new division offers customers the combined services of the company's existing, separate supply chain businesses: UPS Logistics Group, UPS Freight Services (including Fritz...
Perhaps the most discussed project due to its sheer size is Wal-Mart in the US, which has been trialling RFID in its Texas stores, and which has placed a deadline of next January on all suppliers to use RFID tags within its supply chain.
British Energy, the UK's largest electricity generator, has signed a multimillion pound deal to implement a new supply chain strategy. The deal will enable British Energy to improve supply chain performance for its nine power stations across the UK...