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April 28th, 2011 | By: Martin Arrand
Today I’m continuing my analysis of supply chain management in India with some discussion of the economic context. India’s economy is growing very quickly – recently we’ve begun to worry that it’s growing too quickly, running the risk of overheating . But it would be odd if such a rapid transformation of the economy didn’t […]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment, Thought Pieces.
Tags: Distribution, economics, education, India, Retail Supply Chain
Comments: 1
April 4th, 2011 | By: Martin Arrand
I am planning to write a few posts about supply chain management in India. I am in the country working with a local client for a couple of weeks, back for the first time since my 6 weeks living in Delhi earlier in 2010/11. This is a very exciting topic, and though I have been […]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment.
Tags: Distribution, emerging economies, India, logistics, logistics infrastructure, Warehousing
Comments: 4
June 30th, 2011 | By: Martin Arrand
I’ve just picked up this interactive chart from The Economist. I’m particularly interested in the risk of overheating in the Indian economy, as my most recent trips there certainly make me feel there is a bubble inflating, if only based on the simple heuristic of the number of property speculation SMSs I get on my […]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment.
Tags: China, emerging economies, India, logistics infrastructure
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November 4th, 2008 | By: Martin Arrand
The CILT‘s Humanitarian and Emergencies Logistics Professionals (HELP) Forum met again on Tuesday last week (28 Oct 2008). It was another interesting session, so I thought I would post a brief report (with a long title). My apologies if I have mangled any of the following in transcribing my notes. For those that don’t know, […]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment.
Tags: Agility, CILT, Cyclone Nargis, disaster relief, Global Logistics Cluster, HELP Forum, Humanitarian Logistics, Logistics Emergency Teams, Save the Children, Sichuan earthquake, tsunami
Comments: 3