Stores news – Page 174
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Foot & mouth crisis week 2: Meat supply: Glut on the way - b
Meat buyers could soon be facing surpluses and plunging prices even though scarcities will push up their costs in the short term. The government's plan to allow the movement of some livestock direct to slaughterhouses expected to start next...
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Supply chain: Suppliers' frustrated by Byers' rush' over co
Clive Beddall Farmers and food manufacturers fear that failure to agree the small print in the DTI's draft code of trading practice within the "unrealistic" deadline set by secretary of state for trade and industry Stephen Byers could force the...
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The Grocer focus on logistics: Smart tags will keep track of
Sainsbury undertook the biggest grocery tracking project in the world and is now preparing for the first stages of implementing a smart' science Tracking products around the supply chain often used to be a matter of inspired guesswork. Now it's...
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The Grocer focus on logistics: in the driving seat with sate
Until recently one big gap in the supply chain has been the ability to know the precise location of delivery trucks once they leave the warehouse. Mobile phone communication is expensive and open to abuse as drivers can easily give a false location....
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The Grocer focus on logistics
Analysis by Jon Woolven Wal-Mart's entry to the UK has forced its competitor multiples to reassess their supply chain strategies radically. Sainsbury supply chain director Martin White sums it up: "For the first time, there's now clear blue water...
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The Grocer focus on logistics: Costco clubbin'
- Costco operates members only warehouse clubs in the US, Canada, Mexico and south-east Asia, serving trade and private customers who pay an annual membership fee. - Costco entered the UK in 1992, and claims to have been "solidly profitable"...
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The Grocer focus on logistics: Costco: speed is of the essen
Costco is an expert at pushing just in time' to its limits as Elaine Watson discovers in Lutterworth Pay a late afternoon visit to plot 4400 at Lutterworth's Magna Park industrial estate and it's hard to believe you're in a central distribution...
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The Grocer focus on logistics: Supply chain: seeing the big
Real time information from a shared network enables a speedy resolution of supply problems, with the benefits bouncing up and down the chain It's wake-up time for those retailers who have spent years dreaming of a supply chain that actively...
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The Grocer focus on logistics: availability: CR's hour has
Tesco's continuous replenishment drive will create a distribution system second to none says Sarah Hardcastle On shelf availability of 99% is the aim of Tesco's continuous replenishment (CR) distribution operation for food and drink which the...
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The Grocer focus on logistics: round up
- Shell and BP are to explore the feasibility of integrating their forecourt shop supply chains which are currently run separately by Hays Food Logistics. Combining the two operations, which would continue to operate and trade in competition with...
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BSE Report: Grocers must help keep supply chain BSE-free'
Retailers have been warned by the chairman of the Food Standards Agency that they have a role to play in ensuring BSE is kept out of the food chain. Speaking at the publication of the FSA's draft report on the BSE controls, Sir John Krebs said...
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Supply base consolidation: Market still blighted by ineffici
Abattoir sector structure dispute misses the problem on the farms Major retailers bemused by the conflicting allegations about their role in meat industry restructuring might ask why they are accused of causing cost and price distortions when an...
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Supply chain initiatives are all the rage
Concepts such as Just-In-Time, Kanban, Vendor Managed Inventory, Continuous Replenishment Planning and Efficient Consumer Response have all been having a positive impact on the fmcg industry and the one thing they all agree on is the need to…