The first tender to use Freight Traders new ‘bid upload’ software has gone live and is now in progress. Bid upload is a sophisticated off-line bidding tool enabling offers to be made in less than ten seconds and taking part in tenders is even faster.
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Distribution solutions consortium Jigsaw has opened a new operations centre at Bardon in Leicestershire. The facility, adjacent to J22 of the M1, coordinates the movements of a mixed fleet of up to 1,200 commercial vehicles and 2,000 trailers
Sports retailer JJB Sports conducts an average of three or four stock audits per year, which encompass its entire store network. In addition, supplementary audits are implemented and, in worst case scenarios, some stores could be counted eight or nine tim
Production Modelling, which provides simulation, planning and scheduling solutions, has launched the third version of its Orchestrate planning and scheduling software. Orchestrate now offers a genetic algorithm-based optimiser, powerful systems interfac
Yeovil-based Yoplait Dairy Crest (YDC), which produces fromage frais and children’s chilled yogurts and desserts, has a new blast freezer to chill eight production lines. The blast freezer, supplied by Transrent Holdings division Chill It, has given YDC
T@lecom, which develops cost-effective wireless solutions for the transport and logistics industry, has launched the Runsheet product to complement its ‘Sameday’ variant for the dedicated express operator, launched in 2002. Wireless Delivered is one of
New Forest Ice Cream (NFIC) has selected integrated storage and materials handling solutions company Locators to provide a complete racking installation at its new site on Southampton’s Hounsdown Industrial Estate. Won on competitive tender, Locators de
Following two groundbreaking, sell-out, shows, 2004 is set for an even greater impact for the UK’s premier exhibition covering all facets of the supply chain, with the return of Logistics Link at Sandown Park in Surrey, and the launch of Logistics Link
SSI Schaefer is now offering a wide range of attached lid containers to meet the many varied needs of the logistics industry. Designed for internal use within automated handling systems, the new LTB transport container offers space savings of up to 75% on
Fruit importer Jamaica Producers Fruit Distributors (JPFD) is seeing “greatly enhanced” quality control now that it is using i2 Mobile Solutions technology within its banana operation. According to JPFD, the UK trading arm for Jamaica Producers Group’s
