Supply chain specialist Gist is expanding its primary business into Europe having bought G Van Dongen Holdings, a European temperature-controlled transport operator comprising of seven companies based in the Netherlands and Spain.
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This summer, the ELA Research and Development Committee brought together 20 PhD students from 11 European countries for a workshop at a beautiful venue in Monchy-St-Eloi, near Paris. Hosted by AFT-IFTM and sponsored by DHL Switzerland, the ninth ELA doc
Innovate Logistics has unveiled a £6M high-tech development of its storage and distribution centre in Dudley to help steel producer Corus provide faster and more accurate deliveries to its UK customers.
Clothing manufacturer Red Inc is using Prolog Logistics to handle the warehousing and distribution of its three key clothing brands.
Mergers and acquisition activity and speculation in the European logistics industry has continued at an unrelenting pace.
The vast majority of MHE equipment is no longer bought outright. We look at the reasons behind this.
With so many variables – cost, lead-time, response to consumer trends – it can seem as though the odds are stacked heavily against the retailer. How can buyers make the best sourcing decisions to beat the odds?
Retail supply chain systems are becoming more integrated, more extensive and more complex – but are they helping to keep the shelves filled?
‘It is possible for the seller to sell, the retailer to retail, and the supply chain specialist to do everything in between.’ Although this statement is undoubtedly true, the issues are whether the outsourced supply chain management sector is really capab
The electronics and high tech sector has fully embraced online selling – the distinction between manufacturing and retailing is now blurred. But is this the only way forward?
