The second of the Innovation categories considered the wider, more strategic, supply chain innovations that have been deployed to best effect.
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Innovation is always a difficult category for the judges – mainly because it’s difficult to determine what an innovative step is, exactly, as opposed to the application of known technology or methods.
Integrating two businesses in the teeth of a recession is not the easiest of jobs, but Norbert Dentressangle has also been able to pick up new logistics business at the same time. Malcolm Wilson, chief executive of Norbert Dentressangle Logistics in the U
The Individual Contribution Award is unique in that the winner is chosen by a vote of the readers of Supply Chain Standard.
The government’s Carbon Reduction Strategy is a rare chance for logistics to be the good guys.
The Team of the Year can come from any area of supply chain and this year the judges chose to shortlist four outstanding entries: British Sky Broadcasting, Belron, Carlsberg UK in partnership with Gist; and Procter & Gamble.
As always the Consumer &Retail category drew plenty of entries, but when it came to selecting for the shortlist four stood out from the rest.
What is standard delivery? It would be natural to assume that there is common understanding of the terms and costs. Certainly, it would be help to customers if there was an agreed definition.
Toll Global Forwarding (TGF) has named Graham Ward managing director of UK operations as part of a management reshuffle.
The average charge for “standard delivery” can range from £1.99 to £10, according to a survey of online retailers by iForce, the multi-channel logistics specialist. The average charge for standard delivery was £3.83 per order.
