The supply chain could benefit from some manufacturing discipline, says the group logistics director of Oxford University Press
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Advanced Processing of Halifax has won long-term national distribution contracts with Debenhams, Makro and Quiksilver totalling £1.8m.
Euro-Tran Despatch has bought four Ford Transit vans The Skipton-based firm is part of the APC Overnight courier network.
We’ve been looking at three sectors that keep the British economy ‘singing’ – Manufacturing (great past, uncertain future), Construction (building for the future) and Logistics (enabling both the others to function at all).
Kuehne + Nagel UK and Scottish & Newcastle UK have completed the deal that sees the creation of KN Drinks Logistics, which is now fully operational.
TNT Home, the home delivery arm of TNT Logistics UK, has expanded its operations with furniture marketing and design specialist, Scan -Thors (UK).
Amtrak Express Parcels has opened a new hub to handle increasing volumes of overnight parcels.
Roadways Container Logistics has opened the new Birmingham Intermodal Freight Terminal (BIFT), with the arrival of the first train from Southampton.
NYK Logistics has won a further contract with Land Rover, to manage supply of components to point of fit, on the Defender and Range Rover production lines at Solihull.
Collaboration is not quite the no-brainer it seems at first, taking a great deal of planning, but the benefits are real. By Sam Tulip
