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Steve Smith, senior vice president EMEA at Manhattan Associates commented. “The research has revealed the need to evaluate supply chains not just in terms of eliminating inefficiencies, but also in terms of value creation. The organisations securing the greatest benefit from new or existing supply chain systems are those who are successfully and continually aligning systems functionality with effective people management programmes and well-managed business processes. The role of supply chain technology in this process is inevitably that of enabler rather than driver of change, but it is nonetheless a vital part of the whole. As the retail industry begins to understand more about Lean, and the role of technology in achieving it, the challenge is to recognise that Lean is a journey, not a destination.”
The outputs of the market research are being presented at the Supply Chain Leadership conference, taking place today at Unipart Group’s offices in Cowley, Oxfordshire. The Market Research Summary Findings can be downloaded from
www.manh.com/sclcresearch.
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LONDON - June 10, 2008
New research commissioned by Unipart Group, one of Europe’s leading logistics companies and Manhattan Associates, the global supply chain optimisation provider, has identified people, process and IT integration as one of the six most commonly cited supply chain challenges facing both retailers and their suppliers. The research, conducted by White Space Insight, focused on senior supply chain professionals from some of the UK’s leading retailers and manufacturers. It revealed that lack of flexibility, management information, effective forecasting tools, product tracking technology, and systems for the effective management of people, were also making the pursuit of supply chain perfection an elusive goal.
A central theme of the research was ‘Lean working practices’ and the application of this approach in a supply chain context. Many respondents reported that Lean initiatives tend to take place as part of big “transformation” projects, which do not necessarily lead on to a programme of ongoing iterative changes or continuous improvement. While necessary rationalisation and standardisation of operations and practices take place early on, this is not always followed up with a programme to maintain an optimised supply chain.
As supply chain change programmes can be inherently risky – not least those initiatives which involve large-scale systems changes – the research suggests that it is not unusual for even the larger retailers to make do with long-standing legacy systems, rather than expose the organisation to the risk of major change. However, it is possible to make a significant reduction in the risk associated with major transformations by taking the alternative route of using Lean working practices to understand, measure and continually improve supply chain processes, in order to create the best climate for controlled and incremental change.
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Manhattan Associates builds momentum in South Africa with retail giant Foschini
June 30, 2008
Global supply chain optimisation provider Manhattan Associates (NASDAQ: MANH) today announced that Foschini Group, one of South Africa’s leading fashion and lifestyle retail chains, has selected Manhattan Associates’ Warehouse Management solution (WMS) for Open Systems, to serve the group’s multiple retail divisions, which span clothing, jewellery, accessories, cosmetics, sporting and outdoor apparel, equipment and homewares.
Price Chopper Selects Aldata G.O.L.D Integrated Supply Chain Suite
London, 1st July 2008
Price Chopper, the 26th largest supermarket chain in the U.S., has selected G.O.L.D. Retail Supply Chain Suite from Aldata, one of the global leaders in supply chain software for retail, wholesale and logistics companies, to centralise merchandising and procurement and to improve replenishment management operations across 116 grocery stores throughout New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire.
Psion Teklogix at SME 2007
Among the highlights on
Psion
Teklogix’s stand at the forthcoming Service Management Europe exhibition (SME 2007)
will be a new lone-worker tracking system.
IT is childs play for K3 at Kiddicare.com
Kiddicare, the largest privately owned UK nursery supplier,
has commissioned K3 to
design and implement an entire
suite of retail management solutions based on Microsoft Dynamics to support ambitious
expansion.
The price is right, and on time at Nisa-Today’s
Nisa-Today’s has cut the time taken to process price changes,
promotions and new stores by
on average 150%, enabling it to further enhance member loyalty and for members in
turn to boost their sales
A-Selver AS selects Aldata to support supply chain and store processes
A-Selver AS, an Estonian
and Latvian chain of supermarkets andhypermarkets
specialising in food products
and convenience goods, has selected Aldata, one of the global leaders in supply
chain software for retail, wholesale and logistics companies to support supply chain
and store operations.
Handheld Europe launches the new M3 eTicket
Handheld Europe today announces
the M3 eTicket™, a new version of the versatile M3+ designed specially for payment
transactions and ticket validations in the public transport sector.
BCP gives retailers the benefits of OLA over Broadband
Retail solutions provider Business
Computer Projects Ltd (BCP) has developed a flexible solution to give retailers
the speed, reliability and financial benefits of using Broadband for online authorisation
(OLA) of card payment transactions and Paypoint Services.
Tier-3 warns over hacking kits for sale on eBay
London, UK, 20th September,
Tier-3, the behavioural analysis
IT security specialist, has warned companies that hacker toolkits - which were previously
confined to specialist hidden forums on the Internet - are now being sold openly
on auction sites such as eBay.
AMidlands Co-operative Society selects Aldata
Midlands Co-op, a successful and growing regional retailer with
over 170 food and non-food stores, is progressing well with projects to improve
support of its retail operations in the UK by implementing new systems to
manage central data, orders,
store inventory, replenishment, point of sale and payments.
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