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Food Supply Chain Review  

Little has been written about new product and packaging development processes within the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry. While often taking on the status of apocryphical folklore, branded FMCG product development failure rates as high as 90%– 95% have appeared in the popular and consultancy press.

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Sustainability in Supply Chain Management  

This article, written by Keivan Zokaei and Professor Peter Hines from the Lean Enterprise Research Centre examines how sustainability in supply chain management might be acheived.

The successful supply chain of tomorrow must take environmental sustainability into account alongside economic competitiveness. Leading companies such as Interface Corp., Toyota, Tesco, Mark & Spencer and Walkers crisps have not only saved the environment by investing in greening their supply chains but also have saved themselves heaps of money and banked consumers’ goodwill. Nevertheless the existing supply chain toolbox is geared around making ever more efficient chains and largely neglects carbon as the currency of the future.   To read the full article, please click here.

 
Demand Chain Management  

How do you focus on customer needs? How do you create a lean enterprise in an SME? How do you do lean in a service environment? How do you link improvement with realistic forecasts of the profit you will create from them? These are just a few of the questions answered in this article on the Lean transformation of Main Motors, a UK based auto dealer.  To read or download a pdf, click here.
 
Strategy Deployment  

This document by Mike Dale builds on 'The Lean Business Model'(also found in this section of our website) and explains what we mean by Strategy Deployment, and how it is implemented.

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The Development of Supply Chain Relationships  

The last few decades have witnessed the rise of research into Supply Chain Management and relationships within it. However, in many cases previous research has taken a single-lens approach to understanding and explaining what is happening as well as in subsequently developing solutions.

The research reported here seeks to take a multi-lens approach to relationships in the supply chain using a complete farm to retail food supply chain as an instrumental case.

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