With transport costs rising and green issues increasingly on the agenda. The FMCG sector needs to adopt a more collaborative approach to solving the sector’s distribution challenges, says Hugh Basham
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Once considered the domain of eco-warriors, such as ‘Swampy’ and Prince Charles, environmental awareness has, over the past year, been catapulted to the forefront of main-stream thinking – we are now all expected to be ‘greener’ than ‘green’.
According to the World Trade Organisation the yearly real growth of world merchandise exports averaged six per cent in 2005 after outstandingly strong growth of 9.5 per cent in the preceding year. With such rapid growth in global trade and with consolida
Cutting out waste is the core principle of a Lean philosophy, as those who attended the recent Unipart Logistics Supply Chain Summit found out.
ELA competence standards promote excellent company performance and boost professional development.
French group Geodis has reported sales of 2.3bn euros for the first half of 2007, up 22.1 per cent. The company bought TNT Freight Management from TPG group, boosting its presence in the international forwarding market. Integration costs meant than net pr
Unilever has announced plans for a major supply chain restructuring. Patrick Cescau, group chief executive, said the business would be reorganised into a series of multi-country organisations.
Barloworld has invested £1 million in a five year contract with Masternaut, to provide web-based vehicle tracking for 550 service vehicles.
PD Teesport is investing £300 million to develop its Northern Gateway, which will transform the port into a deep sea terminal to ease direct services from Far East countries such as China.
Asda has opened a national distribution centre at Redhouse Business Park, Doncaster.
