The last 50 metres between the stockroom and a retailer’s shelf remains one of the supply chain’s biggest challenges and contributes to problems of ‘high cost’ and ‘low availability’. Initiatives from the IGD and ECR have resulted in workable standards, b

Once goods leave the warehouse they can enter an information void, where suppliers and customers are left guessing on the status of their deliveries. How do you maintain real-time visibility of goods on the move and how do you use that information to make

Having the right service parts available when customers need them is now critical in maintaining brand image, loyalty and service level agreements. Jasper van der Wulp argues that global operations and just-in-time manufacturing trends are putting an em

Managing a large amount of data in real-time used to demand supercomputers, teams of highly-paid IT experts, years of work and a lot of money. Today, complex event processing systems are turning it into a lower budget affair. Penelope Ody

Those of you that attended the Extended Supply Chain conference in London at the end of March will have heard that the event has been acquired by Centaur Media plc, the publishers of Supply Chain Standard.

Iain Speak is to take over as chief executive of Bibby Distribution when Theo de Pencier moves to the Freight Transport Association in July.

Developers Wrenbridge and Gleeson have submitted plans for a 126,000 sq ft speculative shed joint venture at Kingswood Lakeside Business Park in Cannock that could provide 100 jobs on completion.

Amazon.co.uk is building a 800,000 sq ft distribution centre in Wales with the Macquarie Goodman Group.

Deutsche Post World Net has opened an innovation centre to develop products which will allow companies to respond to future trends in the supply chain.

Toyota Industrial Equipment (UK) and BT Rolatruc are combining to form Toyota Material Handling UK (TMHUK).