From a slow start a few years ago, the Contribution to Environmental Improvement category is now one of the most active, with a growing number of very worthy entries.
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Exemplary customer service is central to supply chain excellence, and this Award certainly offered a fine selection of initiatives aimed at driving up customer satisfaction levels.
As may have been expected, the Logistics & Fulfilment category received a great number of entries again this year – and hence, the shortlist was long, making the judges’ task that much harder.
The second of the Innovation categories considered the wider, more strategic, supply chain innovations that have been deployed to best effect.
As always the Consumer &Retail category drew plenty of entries, but when it came to selecting for the shortlist four stood out from the rest.
What is standard delivery? It would be natural to assume that there is common understanding of the terms and costs. Certainly, it would be help to customers if there was an agreed definition.
Toll Global Forwarding (TGF) has named Graham Ward managing director of UK operations as part of a management reshuffle.
The average charge for “standard delivery” can range from £1.99 to £10, according to a survey of online retailers by iForce, the multi-channel logistics specialist. The average charge for standard delivery was £3.83 per order.
Americana International, which owns the Bench clothing brand, has chosen Clipper Logistics to run its UK warehousing and transport operations.
Freight capacity on UK short sea freight ro-ro, lo-lo and channel tunnel services has been cut by 4.1 per cent (600,000 units) over the past 12 months.
