The CIPS/Markit Purchasing Managers’ Index for manufacturing hit its highest level since 1994 last month rising to 57.2
Browsing: Supply Chain
Budget retailer 99p Stores has secured ProLogis’ DC372 warehouse at ProLogis Park Pineham in Northamptonshire, as its new headquarters and national distribution centre.
Joining a third party logistics provider in the middle of a recession might reasonably be regarded as a baptism of fire, but Leigh Pomlett is now putting growth firmly back on the agenda. He talks to Malory Davies.
The need to inject capital into the supply chain more quickly has stepped up a notch in the past year, and with it has come the rise of an alternative funding structure – supply chain financing. Jessica Davies investigates.
As flexibility, short production runs and responsiveness to market demands become the survival factors for 2010, can global supply chains deliver performance as well as price? By NIck Allen
Stakrak has introduced a range of folding conductive containers designed to eliminate the risk of electrostatic charges when transporting electronic goods.
Online retailer Tackle Discounts has upped its sales by 30 – 40 per cent and cut delivery costs by 15 per cent, since going live with a delivery management system from MetaPack.
Louis Vuitton Japan has signed a contract with Kuehne + Nagel Japan for the management of its regional distribution centre.
Chris Gateley has been appointed chief executive of TVS Automotive Europe following TVS’s takeover of Multipart at the end of last year.
Pub operator Mitchells & Butlers has extened its contract with Tradeteam for a further five years covering distribution of drinks to some 2,000 pubs, restaurants and bars.
