Browsing: Logistics & Supply Chain

Rolls-Royce has awarded KLM a three-year global contract to manage inbound and outbound International Freight Forwarding for sites in the UK, US, Germany and Canada. KLM Cargo Aerospace Logistics entered a joint bid with Kuehne + Nagel, a partnersh

Entec International has won a £15M, three-year contract with a leading worldwide drinks group covering the delivery of advanced global eProcurement and logistics solutions.

Amway, a global manufacturing, marketing and sales organisation, is arguably the ideal model for a franchise business, with some three million independent business owners (IBOs) worldwide, including the UK, selling a wide range of goods – predominantly

The Argos Retail Group (ARG), comprising Homebase and Argos, is using global logistics provider Kuehne & Nagel (K&N) to handle its supply chain management. The deal is claimed to be one of the largest ever concerning supply chain management.

Transport is the key element in the logistics industry but in Europe it is at a crossroads, and no longer sustainable. Integral to the concept of a European Union (EU) is the removal of internal barriers and the creation of a single market.

To overcome the complexities of globalisation, integrated IT solutions are key to maintaining consistency and visibility. Martin Neil highlights the benefits of globally integrated IT services and solutions for supply chain management.

Road Freight Transport: In 1988, before the Masstricht Treaty, one of the first things the EU did was to harmonise transit documents for trucks and freight crossing internal EU frontiers, reducing the previous sheaf of paper to a single form, before aboli