Press Archive

LCP is an active contributor to news and debate about global supply chain issues. Here are our archived published press articles for 2008.

  1. Retail surgery, Retail Week, 5 June 2009
  2. Recession brings increased focus on collaboration, Supply Chain Standard, June 2009
  3. Companies are starting to collaborate, Manufacturing & Logistics IT, 4 June 2009
  4. Rich and green, Supply Chain Standard, 1 May 2009
  5. UK logistics sector bucks global pessimism trend, 14 April 2009
  6. Recession will drive radical changes in supply chains, 1 April 2009
  7. Recession offers chance to drive 'radical change' in supply chains, 20 March 2009
  8. Going green worldwide, March 2009
  9. The Weakest Link, March 2009
  10. Chain of Momentum, European Oil & Gas Magazine, March 2009
  11. A stark choice, Foodchain Magazine.com, March 2009
  12. Sourcing Supplement, Daily Telegraph, 17 March 2009
  13. Consolidation  - is it yielding the expected benefits and what are the prospects for further changes?  International Freighting Weekly February 2009
  14. Supply Chain Management Supplement, The Times, 5 November 2008
  15. The long and the short of measuring carbon footprint, Financial Times, 8 October 2008
  16. A Greener Machine, Supplychain supplement, October 2008
  17. The CEOs Stamp, The Telegraph, 21 May 2008
  18. Fuelling change, Supply Chain Standard, April 2008
  19. Management Lessons - letter to The Financial Times, 2 April 2008
  20. The challenges of returns processing, Supply Chain Standard, April 2008
  21. Same old, same old, Conspectus IT Report, March 2008

Retail Surgery - Alan Braithwaite answers question in Retail Surgery section of Retail Week.  Retail surgery

Recession brings increased focus on collaboration - Supply Chain Standard reports on research carried out by LCP  Focus on Collaboration

Collaboration is key to survival as economic downturn forces companies to make significant changes in supply chain...  article from Manufacturing & Logistics IT following research by LCP.  Collaboration is key

Rich and green - Sustainable sourcing and supply chains offer true competitive advantage, argue Alan Braithwaite and Jeremy Hammant in an article from this month's Supply Chain Standard.   Supply Chain Standard

UK logistics sector bucks global pessimism trend - Despite rising unemployment and continuing economic decline, the UK logistics industry is more optimistic about the future than it was a month according to research from Transport Intelligence, which includes input from Alan Braithwaite.  Road Transport

Reccession will drive radical changes in supply chains - Once again LCP's five maxims in an article from Logistics Manager. Logistics Manager

Recession offers chance to drive 'radical change' - In an article in CPO Agenda, Alan Braithwaite offers the five maxims for how firms could make their supply chains fitter, leaner and more agile...CPO Agenda

Going green worldwide - Being green has gone through many stages over the last ten years.  For some time simply paying lip service to the environment was enough to get by... Jeremy Hammant from LCP contributes to this debate   Going green worldwide

The Weakest Link - LCP contributed to an MCA report which highlighted how the rise in globalisation has produced ever more complex supply chains.  The report is featured in articles from .... Logistics Handling  Logistics Manager

Chain of Momentum (from exploration to end user) - In Issue 3 2009 Alan Braithwaite addresses the extreme supply chain challenges of the oil and gas industry...Chain of momentum

A stark choice - Greensourcing is the answer being put forward by the outsourcing industry to help companies lower their outside impacts, but what is it and how is it going to help? In this article from Food Chain Magazine, Alan Braithwaite analyses the rise of 3pl logistics in the food and drinks industry.  A stark choice

Sourcing - A Sourcing supplement by Mediaplanet  published in The Daily Teleegraph, 17 March, 2009 quotes Alan Braithwaite in the article "Is offshoring really bad ethics?"   Sourcing Supplement

International Freighting Weekly - Alan Braithwaite contributes to article in International Freighting Weekly.  Consolidation - is consolidation  yielding the expected benefits and what are the prospects for further changes?  Martin Dixon reports..    International Freight Weekly

Supply Chain Management - Chairman, Alan Braithwaite, was asked to contribute in an interview on supply chain finance which appeared in the Supply Chain Supplement in The Times.  This is a critically important commercial area for companies which has not yet received sufficient attention. The supplement is available for download with Alan's contribution on page 13:   Supply Chain Management

The long and the short of measuring carbon footprint - Calculating the supply chain's carbon footprint and monitoring the effect of actions to reduce it is still evolving. There are a numer of......The long and the short

A Greener Machine - Publishers and booksellers are striving to cut waste in the ways they bring books to readers. In a recent article in Thebookseller on the environmentally friendly supply chain, Tom Holman gathers advice from various sources, including Jeremy Hammant, Partner at LCP.   Greener machine 

The CEOs Stamp - How far have CEOs grasped the changing nature of supply chain management, asks Andrew Cave.......The CEOs Stamp

Fuelling Change - Freight is back in focus and facing some high pressure challenges...... Supply Chain Standard

Letter to the Financial Times - T5 shows a troubling lack of corporate memory and learning..... Letter to Financial Times

The challenges of returns processing - LCP contributed to an industry round table discussion on the status of reverse logistics and returns management.  Managing Reverse Logistics

Same old, same old - Expert opinion piece by Alan Braithwaite for Conspectus, The IT report for Directors and Decision Makers.... Same old, same old

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