Musgrave Group, the Irish grocery distributor, has chosen to re-commit to BCP’s Accord system for its Musgrave Wholesale Partners Division.
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The Department for Transport’s Online Benchmarking pilot which went live in August, has been expanded to include six additional KPIs to the two that currently exist.
DHL has launched DHL Tyrebox for Europe, a patented solution for transporting tyres to the market. The system enables tyres to be stacked together and delivered flat-packed.
Synthomer, the synthetic polymers business, has chosen DHL Exel Supply Chain to handle its bulk transport operations in the UK from January.
Home Delivery Network has won a contract with fashion retailer River Island.
Norbert Dentressangle says it expects that full-year performance will be hampered by the deterioration in the business environment in the final quarter of 2008.
Marks & Spencer is responding to the downturn in the retail market with plans to manage its supply chain more tightly.
Creating value in the supply chain has a close relationship with cutting out waste – and one of the best ways of removing waste from the supply chain is to automate repetitive processes that add little value.
It is axiomatic that when times are good, companies tend to focus on marketing and product development. It is when the going gets tough that the focus moves towards the supply chain and the potential savings that more efficient logistics can give.
Kimberly-Clark and Kellogg’s have seen cuts of seven per cent in their transport costs from a collaboration project run through TDG.
