Supply chains stand up to millennium bug test
3 April 2012
Most of Britain’s supply chains, except those within the automotive and pharmaceutical sectors, were well prepared for millennium bug hitches, a supply chain academic has claimed.
But it will be another few weeks before analysts know the true extent of New Year stockpiling, said Richard Wilding, logistics and supply chain management lecturer at Cranfield School of Management.
The CIPS purchasing managers’ index on manufacturing for December found a significant portion of those surveyed had chosen to build up stocks of finished goods to...