Technological advances in communications and computing have revolutionised much of the service industry with the advent of Internet-based commerce enhancing this further. Why are logistics operations being so cautious to adopt technology?
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Sourcing goods from China and the Far East may offer the potential for huge savings, however, there are risks to consider.
The UK’s largest cement manufacturer, Lafarge Cement, has adopted an innovative ‘truck, track and trace’ system to enable its drivers to focus on driving and at the same time improve ‘real-time’ communications with its 9,000 customers.
Third-party logistics company TDG handles the warehousing and distribution for the Early Learning Centre. In order to cope with ELC’s peak periods, TDG has swapped its manual paper-based system for a wireless data capture solution.
Imaje’s latest outer case coder, the 4040, combines high-resolution piezo inkjet technology with very dark oil-based inks to create high definition coding for porous surfaces. With the ability to print high quality text, complex graphics and barcod
TraceCheck, a new, web-based service, offers food businesses all kinds of ways to improve their traceability performance and ensure compliance with stringent EU legislation, which came into force on January 1, 2005.
The RFID seminar presented jointly by industry specialists inotec UK and Intellident at last month’s Logistics Link 2005 drew almost twice the attendance expected, with more than 140 people attending the four seminars spread over the two-day
The launch of new procurement solution Profiler by supply chain and procurement specialist TiVA is set to completely change supply chain management by creating more efficiently managed buyer-supplier relationships and reducing the adversarial relat
Open any publication involved in the supply chain and it quickly becomes clear that the interest and excitement around RFID continues apace. Wal-Mart, Tesco and UPS for example are extending their RFID technology trials, EPC Global has announced the ratif
Retailers and manufacturers spend so much time focusing on the outbound supply chain that they often neglect the fact that goods also have to travel backwards through the chain. Reverse logistics is often forgotten – a glaring oversight which can cause wi
