Coal merchant CPL Distribution is upgrading its fleet with 33 new light and medium-weight trucks on contract hire from Fraikin.
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Crescent chose a warehouse management system from HighJump Software to support its logistics and contract packaging operations in the US.
Scottish retail and distribution company and Spar
wholesaler, CJ Lang and Son, has rolled out a voice
technology-based WMS across both its ambient, chilled and frozen depots in Dundee.
Cambridge University Press has doubled the pick rate at itsUK warehouse since upgrading to a RedPrairie WMS.
The current procurement climate of short-term goals and targets driven by the recession is raising questions over how much capacity organisations have to find lasting solutions to key issues, according to the latest survey of chief procurement officers by
Bibby Distribution has teamed up with Fairbridge, a national charity supporting disadvantaged young people, to offer a group in north Manchester a hand up the career ladder.
In a few days time, an EU directive comes into force introducing the long awaited “Driver CPC”. The directive will affect some 800,000 drivers.
Some 800,000 professional drivers will be affected by the European Union-wide Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) directive, which comes into force for lorry drivers from 10th September. Although aimed at raising the skills of professional driver
David Higginbottom of the RTITB reckons there is widespread confusion among drivers over what the CPC entails, saying “what drivers do know tends to be inaccurate”.
High flying Gist chief Martin Gwynn talks to Lucy Tesseras about the company’s ethos, the £2bn M&S deal and why he chose logistics over being a pilot
