Comments on: General Mills and Tesco: How Supply Chain Boosts Profits http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2010/02/03/general-mills-and-tesco-how-supply-chain-boosts-profits/ Providing logistics professionals with clear and concise analyses of Logistics Trends, Technologies, and Services Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:39:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Karthik.Mani http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2010/02/03/general-mills-and-tesco-how-supply-chain-boosts-profits/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Karthik.Mani Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:47:43 +0000 http://logisticsviewpoints.com/?p=2847#comment-157 Steve: Here is another example from the Q4 2009 of CEO level visibility to supply chain boosting profits. "Williams-Sonoma says improved supply chain management, including cuts in transportation costs, were a major reason the company swung to a profit in its recent fiscal third quarter despite slipping store sales." http://www.joc.com/node/415082 There are going to be a lot more of these news coming out as people adjust to the new reality of higher oil prices and a possibility of carbon tax coming in. My guess is that the most popular such supply chain changes are going to be consolidated warehouses, consolidated shipments, local procurement / production (like the general mills example above). Karthik Steve:

Here is another example from the Q4 2009 of CEO level visibility to supply chain boosting profits.
“Williams-Sonoma says improved supply chain management, including cuts in transportation costs, were a major reason the company swung to a profit in its recent fiscal third quarter despite slipping store sales.”
http://www.joc.com/node/415082

There are going to be a lot more of these news coming out as people adjust to the new reality of higher oil prices and a possibility of carbon tax coming in. My guess is that the most popular such supply chain changes are going to be consolidated warehouses, consolidated shipments, local procurement / production (like the general mills example above).

Karthik

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