Collaboration in the supply chain has been widely discussed, and a wealth of concepts is at hand. Large-scale projects like the Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) in the fast moving consumer goods sector, for example, or Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) and Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and...

Evidence obtained by the Competitions Commission suggests that hidden but potentially severe financial pressures are being imposed on UK supermarket suppliers. We identify four such major routes, including reverse cash flows resulting in subsidised acquisition costs. A consequence is that a...

Manufacturing has been in a state of extraordinary turmoil. The world's manufacturing output is increasingly crossing national borders. Marketing pressures call for flexible systems which are in contrast with large volume production of standardized products. Companies are capitalizing on time as...