Inventory management used to be about lean systems and JIT but accurate real time information is now more essential as demand-driven supply networks come on-stream. Perhaps one day, stock-outs really will be consigned to history.

This month acquisition activity has focused around global Swiss logistics provider Kuehne + Nagel International.

Recruiting, retaining and motivating staff is a long-standing problem for logistics operations, made more acute, in the UK at least, by the current relatively high levels of employment. What makes a company good to work for?

Writing in the October issue of Logistics Europe, regular columnist Peter Bartram quoted a leading international economist as saying that the days of $25 a barrel oil were probably gone forever. Perhaps that’s right. So, what does this mean for commercial

After the hype, many feel disillusioned with RFID but the technology continues to move ahead as prices fall and trials proliferate.

The Engineering and General Manufacturing sector has made a comeback this year, with Rexam Beverage Can Europe & Asia taking the top prize in The European Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2005.

For many landlords, a visit to the property director of a third-party logistics provider (3PL) ranks slightly lower down the list of things-I-want-to-do than a visit to the dentist.

Occupiers are missing out on the basics. According to Steve Johnson, of Manchester property agent King Sturge: “There is a historic deficit of amenities for companies operating in industrial and distribution areas, which often means that workers have to

Rosemound Developments has extended its UK land bank with a 65-acre strategic land purchase from Burford at Cabot Distribution Park, Bristol.

3663 First for Foodservice has opened its new multi-temperature depot at Harlow Business Park, Essex. The site replaces an existing one and will deliver to 5,000-plus customers, a number set to increase from 2006.