Browsing: Logistics

Clothing manufacturer Red Inc is using Prolog Logistics to handle the warehousing and distribution of its three key clothing brands.

With so many variables – cost, lead-time, response to consumer trends – it can seem as though the odds are stacked heavily against the retailer. How can buyers make the best sourcing decisions to beat the odds?

As previous years may have been dubbed the year of ‘Collaboration’ or perhaps, ‘ERP’, there can be little doubt that 2005 will be exalted as ‘the year of RFID’. And although it may be tempting to dismiss this prominent subject as just ‘hype’, elevated to

Toyota spent 30 years perfecting the concept of lean manufacturing. It tweaked, it dabbled, it questioned, and it refused to accept conventional wisdom. We all know the result: supply chain professionals still identify the car giant’s operation as a near-

House of Fraser has enlisted the help of shrink management specialist Checkpoint Systems UK to provide a state-of-the-art retail protection system for its new flagship store in Croydon.

Here’s how one global medical technology and healthcare company has cured its supply chain problems by becoming more demand-driven.

Unipart Solutions Practice (USP), the consultancy division of Unipart Logistics, has put together a Reverse Logistics ‘Check it Now’ package to address issues such as how efficient companies are in managing customer returns, and what the implicatio

Though he claims once to have had a ‘real’ job with British Steel, the president of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport is that rare breed — a career consultant and academic who feels no need to apologise