Browsing: Supply Chain

Wincanton moved back into profit last year, reporting a pre-tax profit of £20.4m against a loss of £47.4m the year before. “We were especially delighted to support the London 2012 Games,” said CEO Eric Born

DHL Global Forwarding has launched DHL Thermonet, a new air freight product tailored to the Life Sciences and Healthcare sector, hoping to offer customers a transparent and regulatory compliant platform to manage their temperature-sensitive shipments

DHL Supply Chain has developed a new 14 tonner series hybrid truck, as part of its GoGreen Programme, which has a target of improving its mother company Deutsche Post DHL’s overall CO2 emissions by 30 per cent by 2020.

As retail chains write down their store assets and high streets atrophy, home delivery becomes increasingly important in the over-all “cost to serve”. Is the model sustainable or will something have to change?

As pressure mounts on major corporations to be seen to be operating in a sustainable way, it has opened up a world of opportunities to a new breed of organisation dedicated to helping them get their supply chains in order

It’s no longer just a multi-channel world. It’s now omni-channel, and to succeed in this developing environment takes technology. Johanna Parsons sizes up the requirements

Strategies for managing global supply chains are changing fast. Unit price is no longer the overriding concern; proximity to the customer is becoming a critical issue. By Nick Allen