Online shopping is growing – but when will home delivery services bring customer satisfaction?
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Retail giant Walmart has unveiled a new global sourcing strategy designed to reduce costs of goods, accelerate speed to market, and improve the quality of products.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has cut stock levels by £570,000 since rolling out a GS1 barcode scanning-based stock control and forecasting system.
Retailers are being invited to take part in trials of a noise mitigation scheme that would allow lorries to make urban deliveries at night and weekends when they are normally banned.
Modular Decanting Ward Solutions has taken Segro’s 63,000 sq ft Unit B11 warehouse at Heywood Distribution Park in Rochdale, Lancashire.
French sports retailer Decathlon has awarded SDI Group a contract to install two additional sorting systems, with a commitment for a third in the first half of 2010 in a contract worth £3 million.
Nestlé has chosen Barloworld Supply Chain Software for supply chain modelling, network design and optimisation.
Faith Shoes has chosen MetaPack to manage its online delivery after finding that its manual consignment creation at the pack bench was becoming too cumbersome to manage and it wanted to improve its ability to print delivery labels.
Confidence is on the up in the UK service sector, according to the CIPS/Markit Business Activity Index which rose to 56.8 in December from 56.6 in November.
Let’s start with the good news – growth is back on the agenda after one of the toughest years on record, and the new year promises to bring new supply chain opportunities – along with a few challenges.
