Offering further evidence of the strength and ongoing innovation in its supply chain management (SCM) strategy, Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) has unveiled a pilot project it developed in alliance with KiMs.
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The key principles in managing supply chains are control, cost and efficiency and, during the past two years, the UK’s multiple retailers have sought to more fully achieve these goals through the introduction of factory gate pricing (FGP). Currently, the
Occupier demand for commercial property hit a two-year high over the past six months as confidence rose for the first…
Banbury-based bakery products supplier Fine Lady Bakeries (FLB) is reporting major efficiency gains a year after it began using Paragon’s routeing and scheduling software. The company started using the software to review fixed routes across its 35-vehicle
Automotive aftermarket service specialist Lex Auto Logistics’ new warehouse management system (WMS) installed at its 50,000sq m distribution centre in Chorley, Lancashire, has enabled it to improve the service provided to nearly 3,000 UK and export cust
Faster and safer working methods are being realised by Harman Motive having installed new powered pedestrian stackers and pallet transport from Jungheinrich at its Bridgend manufacturing complex.
Many manufacturers and distributors have, historically, treated fulfilment as quite separate and distinct from their traditional and more established logistics processes.
Healthcare Logistics, which specialises in the pharmaceuticals distribution sector, has placed a second major contract with Anglo Holt Construction (AHC) to purpose-built an 11,000sq m warehouse and distribution facility alongside an existing logistics an
Glasgow-based Wiseman Dairies has taken on 11 tankers from Crossland over the past six months, the most recent being six 26,000 litre articulated trailers. The dairy has also recently been supplied with five 16,000 litre rigid tankers, made from stainless
Two electric Bendi forklifts leased from Translift have helped improve product flows for Norfolk-based confectioner Kinnerton so much that truck payback is estimated at just over two years, says Kinnerton’s resources manager, Micheal Anderson.
