Retailers are facing challenges and opportunities, both in the way they serve their customers and how they interface with suppliers. Nick Allen asks, what are the winning scenarios?
Browsing: Logistics
Perhaps one of the greatest lessons to come out of the recession has been that flexibility and frequent updates to the planning process are critical to the commercial success of the enterprise. Sales and operations planning holds the key.
The shock horror news is that retail sales fell back in April, according to the British Retail Consortium. The rather more mundane reality behind that is that Easter was early this year so sales were pushed back into March.
If anyone in the logistics industry can claim to be a cool guy, it’s Chris Sturman. He has been involved in temperature-controlled operations for many years and now heads the FSDF. He talks to Malory Davies.
The disruption caused by the Icelandic volcano has highlighted the importance of having a flexible supply chain, but how well did European networks cope when the skies became a no fly zone? Lucy Tesseras investigates.
The government is funding a new approach to logistics apprenticeships, with the creation of organisations to employ the apprentices and hire them out to “host employers”.
The only “EU 15″members with lower productivity than us are Greece, Spain and Portugal, and look where they are.
DIY retailer AKI has chosen Ceva Logistics for a contract worth 50 million euros over five years
Express distribution network Palletways has recruited its partner Reason Transport to extend service into North Oxfordshire including Bicester, Witney and Banbury
The DHL Innovation Centre has been extended by a “Hands-on Lab” where the group is now presenting developments for which test runs are about to begin
