In the first of a planned series of strategic alliances with specialist partners designed to create new and imaginative solutions to customer supply chain problems, Amethyst Group has joined forces with AON Network Services to cut dramatical
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Northcliffe Group subsidiary Aberdeen Journals is using specialist newspaper strapping equipment from Mosca Direct as part of improvements to its printing facility. Aberdeen Journals, which publishes a variety of newspapers, prints more
The past few years have been far from easy: slashed budgets have resulted in skeleton IT departments and overdue system upgrades. The ‘do more with less’ philosophy has been tough resulting in a further plunge in IT’s corporate credibility.
Paragon Foods is using compact live storage at its new site at Doncaster to keep control of costs in the frozen and chilled facility while accommodating future growth. Supplied by BITO Storage Systems, the new system provides compact live
Coors Brewers, of Burton-Upon-Trent, is using Joloda’s Hydraroll Slip Chain System for unloading and transferring pallets of empty cans. The system was introduced to enhance efficiency, resulting in the reduction of the need for handling.
Royal Mail announced in summer 2003 that it would withdraw from using rail freight to deliver all its mail, effective from March 2004, because the service was too slow and expensive. Instead, the company said that it would use road and air services.
G-Log-, a leading provider of global logistics and transport software, has launched version 4.5 of its Global Command and Control CenterT (GC3T) software. Having collaborated with customers to evaluate which areas of new functionality would add the grea
Alpha Airport Services has continued its acquisition of Volvo FL 18-tonne aircraft high-loaders with a further six vehicles, bringing the total to 27. Based at airports around the UK and supplied by the Avonmouth depot of Volvo Truck & Bus (South),
Yorkshire and Humber looks set to become the centre of Europe’s electronic tagging industry by becoming the UK’s leading centre in the region. The development is part of a Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) initiative to create a network
The five Rs of marketing are described as “having the right products, in the right place at the right time in the right quantity and at the right price”. Recently a large public company was in the spotlight for doing exactly the opposite – headlines in
