Browsing: Logistics & Supply Chain

Dachser pushes ahead into global forwarding, as Kuehne + Nagel boosts organic growth in Contract Logistics. By John Manners-Bell

Bibby Distribution, which handles the distribution operation for Thwaites brewery, has taken delivery of four TGA rigids for a newly extended contract. All four chassis were acquired on five-year operating leases through MAN Financial Services.

How do you ensure that transformation projects have the greatest impact on shareholder value? It’s simple, if you have a map – as one major oil and gas company found out when deploying a five year process transformation across 29 countries. By Martyn Watt

TDG has signed 10 million euros worth of contracts with food manufacturer Boyne Valley to provide chilled warehousing and the national distribution of Boyne’s food and non-food products in Ireland, for five years.

n expected 38 per cent increase in trade between the 25 EU member states by 2010 will place a great emphasis on ports and sea motorways. What will be the new pattern of demand for distribution centres? By Simon Lloyd

Nissan is to supply Renault Trucks with its own brand of light duty vehicles through its specialised dealer network. Renault will sell the vehicles as a complement to the Master and Mascott ranges.

More than three quarters of UK-based senior procurement managers and executives believe that their function is more strategic than it was two years ago, according to a survey carried out by Kalido,