Browsing: Article

Whirlpool has become one of the first winners of SAP’s Manufacturing Co-Innovation Challenge, which recognises customers’ and partners’ development of composite applications.

A government planning inspector is due to set the date for the Planning Inquiry into HelioSlough’s £300m rail freight interchange in Hertfordshire.

The UK is starting to experience a shortage in skilled supply chain professionals, says Hugh Williams, managing director of supply chain planning specialists Hughenden.

British gas is seeing dramatic increases in throughput and capacity, as well as major manpower savings at its new £17 million distribution centre for gas and electrical appliance spare parts in Leicester.

A strategy document from the Department for Transport has given long-term support to continued growth of rail freight. Derrick Potter, board member of the Rail Freight Group and executive director of The Potter Group, welcomes it.

Sales staff at SCC were sometimes hesitant to sell an item if the inventory listed only one or two items, as they didn’t want to let customers down if numbers proved to be slightly wrong. But a new system means that everyone is confident that if the syste