Critical Issues Manufacturing/Supply Chain (page 56)

Critical issues are a collection of articles created by leaders, senior executives, research analysts and influential people within the vendor community about a variety of topics relating to the manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, transportation and distribution marketplace across Europe. These articles cover topics such as market trends, improvements in technology, best practice with certain solutions and some thought provoking comment on all aspects of optimising and improving efficiencies throughout the supply chain from raw material to finished product.

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Correcting five wrongs can make a right

Correcting five wrongs can make a right

David Karlin, managing director, mid-market division, Sage UK, says the findings from the Sage Business Heartbeat Survey-a new, continuing study into the ups and downs of business life-offer hope for the majority of manufacturers who are dissatisfied with their IT.

Benchpoint Wins International Recognition With "Measurement Product Of The Year" Award From The USA

Benchpoint, the UK web polling and measurement system, has been named as the "Best New Measurement Product of 2004". The award comes from the US-based "Measurement Standard", a specialist communications measurement portal.

The future; six years on

The future; six years on

Industrial computing products are generally developed in response to a given business requirement or problemMark Hardy, managing director, Belgravium.

SEMATECH Adopts the ArchestrA Application Platform from Wonderware for Interface A Validation and Demonstration System

SEMATECH is implementing the ArchestrA application platform through its International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative subsidiary, a global consortium of leading semiconductor manufacturers.

19 May - Is your supply chain your weakest link?

Survive has announced a new seminar to be held in May this year on supply chain continuity. The seminar, which will feature speakers from John Lewis, Next Group, and Nike, and which will be chaired by Dr Helen Peck of Cranfield University, will be the first held by Survive dedicated to the risk that supply chains represent to all organisations.

80% of manufacturing companies fail to get the most out of their global operations

New research from Deloitte shows companies face a 50% profit loss from blinkered approach to design and management of global networks.

Learning the lessons for IT Alignment, from Sainsburys and RFID

Learning the lessons for IT Alignment, from Sainsburys and RFID

Alignment of IT to the business currently is talked about more than most other hot-topics in technology circles these days, and in my opinion, for good reason.

Reverse logistics a forgotten necessity?

Reverse logistics  a forgotten necessity?

Reverse logistics is often forgotten a glaring oversight which can cause widespread cost when a large scale return of items occurs.

Streamlining the ordering process

XLintQuote, a new product selection and ordering application has been released by Xoetrope.

SME MANUFACTURING SECTOR GROWTH FALTERS AS COSTS CONTINUE TO RISE STEEPLY

Rise in input costs steepest ever. Employment flattens out. Widest ever gap between input costs and output prices.