The key issue for project management today is building as quickly as possible isn’t it?” What makes a development successful?

Woolworths processes some 6.5 million customer transactions a week and runs five main distribution centres based at Swindon, Rugby, Bedford and two operations at Castleton near Rochdale.

Is it a chicken and egg situation? Because there is a dearth of available sites for distribution development in the traditional core Midlands area, occupiers, developers and investors are having to look at alternative locations.

A number of companies are using Logistics Link to launch new products. VSc Solutions is launching Supply Chain Dynamic,

Born out of the old NHS Supplies organisation, NHS Logistics is tasked with supplying a huge range of products to hospitals around the country.

The networks have achieved growth in two main ways. The first is bringing in new members which have pallet traffic that can go through the network; the second is organic growth in the market.

To accommodate this variety of fast and slow-moving lines, a range of storage and order picking methods were co-ordinated by Knapp to form the integrated handling system at the facility.

The 10th Annual Third Party Logistics Study from Capgemini, The Georgia Institute of Technology, SAP and DHL, should serve as a wake-up call to 3PLs the world over.

This year Palletways is helping to drive out male cancer by raising funds and awareness for the Institute of Cancer Research ‘Everyman’ scheme.

In little over three months the logistics landscape has changed dramatically. Major players in the market have been taken over or are up for sale as the industry realigns itself to reflect the changes in the global economy.