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”.
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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
It’s a no-brainer – practically everyone needs a warehouse management system. But, has the time come to go down the pay as you go route?
Jessica Davies is on the case
It’s been a rocky road for many third party logistics companies over the past 12 months, but there are still deals to be had. Lucy Tesseras reports
Racking out a warehouse can appear deceptively simple, but getting it wrong might prove costly. Malory Davies reports on how companies are making creative use of racking.
Enquiries are on the up, but the thought that occupiers could turn and flee again must be too dreadful to bear, says LIZA HELPS.
It’s not only a long but a lonely one, with the Midlands and North West sections of the M6 accounting for 38 per cent of the UK’s total empty warehouse space. But this might be changing. JESSICA DAVIES reports.
Consumer packaging company Huhtamaki UK opted for a software-as-a-service WMS system from Snapfulfil, for its three southern UK warehouses. Each site went live with the systemsimultaneously and the result was a cost saving of £80,000 in the first year. Fu
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.
It’s one thing to survive a rocky economic period, it’s another to thrive from it. But one man who is set on making this a reality is Tim Scharwath, Kuehne + Nagel’s chief executive for North West Europe. He talks to Jessica Davies.