Browsing: Logistics

Prolock (Europe) has announced that it has become the European agent for a new range of freight container and trailer locks.

Foreign hauliers operating on UK roads are imposing wear costs of some £195M per year, according to research gathered by the National Economic Research Association (NERA).

Recruiting, retaining and motivating staff is a long-standing problem for logistics operations, made more acute, in the UK at least, by the current relatively high levels of employment. What makes a company good to work for?

This month acquisition activity has focused around global Swiss logistics provider Kuehne + Nagel International.

Inventory management used to be about lean systems and JIT but accurate real time information is now more essential as demand-driven supply networks come on-stream. Perhaps one day, stock-outs really will be consigned to history.