Browsing: Logistics

Spare a thought for Moir Lockhead, chief executive of Britain’s biggest bus and rail company First Group.

Pundits and politicians talk about the need for joined-up thinking, and ERP vendors and systems integrators are equally enthisiastic. But just how joined-up are our supply chains in reality?

Bringing new drugs to market is a very expensive business: typically it can cost over €500 million and – given time limitations on patents – the pharmaceuticals company then has just 5-10 years or so to recoup its investment and make a profit for most the

Another major realignment of the European third party logistics market sees the end of one of the UK industry’s most illustrious names. Malory Davies looks at the logic of the deal.