Consumers may want home deliveries at times to suit themselves but cost considerations will always limit the options so are there other ways of keeping them happy?
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The cash-to-cash cycle is moving back up the corporate agenda in the wake of public spending cuts, rising inflation and jittery financial markets. Nick Allen looks at how supply chain professionals can respond.
Supply chain collaboration has long been talked about as the next big thing, yet more often that not it remains a boardroom discussion rather than an operational reality. But as companies begin to plateau after the recession, could now be the time for col
Europe’s leading companies are competing in the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2011 – and the winners will be announced at a spectacular gala dinner at the Park Lane Hilton in London’s Mayfair on 1st November
DB Schenker Logistics has appointed Diederick de Vroet has been appointed to head global ocean freight, as of 1st October
Chilled food and drink distributor NFT is opening a £2m depot in the North West on 1st October to add shared user capacity
Southampton-based Meachers has become the UK representative of the Global Freight Group – an international network of independent freight forwarders and logistics companies, covering 52 countries
Norbert Dentressangle has opened offices in Santiago, Chile and Sao Paulo, Brazil as part of the continued development of its freight forwarding business in line with its mid-term objective to reach a turnover of 250 million euros
Truck operators should prepare for new tachograph rules, which will impose a quality standard for the paper that is used to print data from the vehicle unit where this is used as a legal document, as of 1st October
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol has strengthened its freighter connections with China and Hong Kong, following the launch of China Southern Airlines’ twice weekly B777F services to Chongqing
