NFT extends shared use to M&S suppliers
24-Feb-2009
Pastries specialist Brioche Pasquier and Kavli, maker of spreadable cheeses, pâtés and dairy products, are using NFT Distribution's shared user...
Nestle signs supply deal for LPR pallets
27-Jan-2009
Nestle has elected to grant the pallet-pooling operator LPR approved supplier status for all its European divisions, including three based in the...
27-Jan-2009 By Hugh Williams
In the Williams household, the amount of bread we consume is stable and predictable. Around Bank Holidays, we stock up beforehand. But even that...
01-Dec-2008 By Hugh Williams
How dare you waste your chief executive's time, talking about supply chain opportunities? This is of no interest to him. Surely, it is your job to...
Coca-Cola cracks down on water use
24-Nov-2008 By Hayley Brown
Coca-Cola is stepping up its efforts to reduce water consumption and is introducing initiatives throughout the supply chain, claimed media and...
Supply chain collaboration will help beat slump
10-Nov-2008 By Hayley Brown
Greater collaboration between manufacturers in the supply chain will be essential in helping to secure the future of the food industry, a new report...
New environment minister is in ‘listening mode’
03-Nov-2008 By Rick Pendrous
Food and farming will remain central to her brief, Jane Kennedy, minister of state at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA),...
29-Oct-2008 By Hugh Williams
Let's be quite clear from the outset: arson is a crime. So why do we persist in lighting fires in our own businesses? Have you ever wondered how many...
Farmers and food processors get connected
13-Oct-2008 By Rick Pendrous
A new initiative to connect farmers and processors in the Yorkshire and Humber region called Farexchange was launched last week. It coincided with...
29-Sep-2008 By Hugh Williams
If you had asked me a few years ago which function would be the last to embrace supply chain thinking, I'd have got it wrong.Over time and despite...
Hot stuff
23-Sep-2008
In 2005, an illegal dye in chilli brought the herbs and spices market to its knees. But then it got up again
UK supply chain staff shortage
22-Sep-2008 By Rod Addy
Lack of supply chain and demand planning managers is becoming a national problem, according to Hugh Williams, md of specialist consultancy...
29-Jul-2008 By Hugh Williams
Last month I attended a conference, which was supposedly about the latest trends in supply chain management. The tone was set by the chair whose...
29-Jul-2008 By Rick Pendrous
Supply, demand and retailer promotions. Industry peers discussed supply chain issues at Food Manufacture's recent event. Rick Pendrous reports
30-Jun-2008 By Hugh Williams
I bought a new calculator recently. I thought my old one was faulty: the numbers didn't add up! Let me explain. Over the past 10 years businesses...
28-May-2008 By Rick Pendrous
Collaboration along the supply chain is re-emerging as a buzz phrase as suppliers and their retail clients try to squeeze further costs out. At...
28-May-2008 By Hugh Williams
It happened to lean and also to advanced planning and scheduling before that. Now it has happened to sales and operations planning (S&OP). Some...
29-Apr-2008 By Hugh Williams
Software gone bad? I'm talking about implementations that don't deliver the expected benefits, or have gone astray over time. The result is an...
29-Apr-2008 By Rick Pendrous
Promotional sales are some of the biggest sources of conflict between retailers and their suppliers in the UK today. But it is an area where better...
Innocent project results in improved forecasting system
31-Mar-2008 By Sarah Britton
Smoothie firm Innocent Drinks has begun operating a single forecasting system after completing a research and implementation project that began in...
26-Mar-2008 By Rod Addy
The UK's supermarket giant has been using complex weather analysis to predict demand
26-Feb-2008 By Hugh Williams
Pounds are becoming kilos. You are probably thinking that I am about to re-launch the debate of imperial versus metric. I'm not. I'm talking about...
Stevia: the natural choice?
05-Feb-2008
Amid the hype surrounding the new natural, no-calorie sweetener, John Dunn speaks to PureCircle, the company that got in first in the rush to the production line
Bulmers' plans for the very worst crises with its risk management strategy
02-Jan-2008
Drinks producer Bulmers Cider has introduced a risk management strategy to help cope with potential disruptions to its supply chain - however serious...
02-Jan-2008 By Hugh Williams
I find it fascinating to watch a business open up to supply chain thinking. One day it operates in isolation, mistrusting the competition, suppliers...
19-Nov-2007 By Rick Pendrous
Britain’s food producers can reduce by one-fifth the waste they incur along the supply chain, according to research to be published later this...
Tesco reviews its shelf-ready packaging
19-Nov-2007 By Rick Pendrous
Tesco is reviewing all its shelf-ready packaging (SRP) following pressure to reduce packaging waste and after accepting that much of the packaging...
Somerfield shares weekly data with top 50 suppliers
19-Nov-2007 By Rick Pendrous
Somerfield has joined the ranks of UK and overseas retailers working more closely with top suppliers to improve on-shelf availability and reduce...
29-Oct-2007 By Hugh Williams
And I thought that after many years of slow but locally efficient supply chains, lean had taken over: you signed up to the fact that sending a...
02-Oct-2007 By Hugh Williams
You know it will happen, every time: you grab that slice of pizza by the crust; you give it a nudge with the knife in the hope of a clean cut; then,...
HGCA encourages processors and growers to interact
17-Sep-2007 By Sarah Britton
The Home-Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA) is launching ‘supply chain’ - a new section of its website that will enable manufacturers to communicate...
Resource inefficiency greatest in primary food production, say researchers
10-Sep-2007 By Elaine Watson
Lifecycle analyses of food and drink products have revealed that manufacturers are responsible for only a tiny percentage of the overall carbon...
28-Aug-2007 By Hugh Williams
Am I being unreasonable in thinking that the title of supply chain manager or director implies that the person in this position looks after the whole...
29-May-2007 By Rick Pendrous
Nestlé has signed a 10-year contract with Innovate Logistics that will see the temperature-controlled storage and distribution provider taking over...
27-Mar-2007 By Rick Pendrous
Tesco could soon start looking at ways of taking the cost out of manufacturers' inbound supply chains, following its success in raising efficiencies...
29-Jan-2007
The latest efforts by retailers to cut lead-times, inventory and infrastructure investment are headed towards perdition rather than supply chain...
27-Nov-2006 By Elaine Watson
You take the high road ... and I'll take the high road, manufacturer urges Scottish firms
30-Oct-2006 By Paul Gander
The move to relocate increasing volumes of packaging production overseas, much of it following the food industry itself, is putting the entire supply...
30-Oct-2006 By Elaine Watson
The difference between 'JIT' (just in time) and 'JTFL' (just too f**king late), as some manufacturers politely refer to their supply chain planning...
29-Aug-2006 By John Dunn
John Dunn reports on the latest retail trends affecting the warehousing of manufacturers' products
07-Aug-2006 By Elaine Watson
A small logistics firm offering creative solutions to the problem of distributing small loads to supermarkets and foodservice outlets is on course to...
02-May-2006
I have written before about the way manufacturers respond to retailer 'requests' for supply chain redesign. I have urged all suppliers to get a...
01-Feb-2006
I hear that Somerfield is aiming to increase its suppliers' cost to serve. The retailer's proposition allegedly consists of a target to cut stocks,...
12-Jan-2006 By Rick Pendrous
Suppliers need to look farther up the supply chain if they are to prevent a repeat of sudan 1
12-Jan-2006 By Rick Pendrous
Customer and service related issues - such as a temporary loss of sales and a reduction of service levels - are the biggest concerns facing those...
05-Dec-2005 By Elaine Watson
Retailer says its own distribution is no better than its suppliers'
05-Dec-2005
We thought until earlier this month that retail-ready packaging was the main current, retailer-led change initiative.However, in October Asda...
04-Nov-2005 By Elaine Watson
While UK food retailers are world leaders in the field of supply chain management, the logistics infrastructure of much of the manufacturing base is...
10-Oct-2005 By Rick Pendrous
Failure of grain lorries to meet delivery slots to mills has been identified as one of the biggest problems in the upstream biscuit supply chain,...
LETTERS
06-Sep-2005
Collaborate now to avoid another red devil
