Browsing: Logistics

Spare a thought for Moir Lockhead, chief executive of Britain’s biggest bus and rail company First Group.

The bestLog project, initiated by the European Commission, is making great progress on its way to establishing its core objective – an exchange platform for the improvement of sustainable supply chain management practice across Europe.

Pundits and politicians talk about the need for joined-up thinking, and ERP vendors and systems integrators are equally enthisiastic. But just how joined-up are our supply chains in reality?

Bringing new drugs to market is a very expensive business: typically it can cost over €500 million and – given time limitations on patents – the pharmaceuticals company then has just 5-10 years or so to recoup its investment and make a profit for most the