The shortlist for the 2014 European Supply Chain Excellence Awards has been unveiled. More than 70 entries have made it to the final stage of the Awards this year – a record for the Awards
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Apple has topped the rankings in the annual Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 survey – for the seventh year in a row. Gartner said: “It’s hard to argue with operations that regularly generate more than $10 billion in cash flow each quarter
Gist is trialling a fleet of six eco-friendly Frostcruise vehicles, to serve its distribution contracts with both Marks & Spencer and Starbucks, which use technology developed by its parent-company The Linde Group and its UK subsidiary BOC
I’ve heard it said that Apple knows more about what is going on in its competitors’ supply chains than the competitors do themselves. Just hyperbole? Probably. What is true is that Apple has come out top in the Gartner Top 25 supply chain listing
No matter how good you think you are, you have to keep pushing forward, says Gist’s chief executive. He explains the strategy to Malory Davies.
Starbucks has taken on Gist to run its UK and Ireland logistics operation, cutting each store’s 16 weekly deliveries down to just seven consolidated ambient and chilled loads
Smith Electric Vehicles is to set up a factory in the USA with capacity to produce up to 10,000 zero emission vehicles a year
The Tanfield group, owner of Smith Electric Vehicles, almost doubled its annual turnover in 2006 to £40.9m up from £22.4m in 2005.
Operational trials are starting of an electric truck that could show the way forward for urban deliveries.
TNT Express and TNT Logistics are trialling an electric 7.5 tonne truck which they reckon is the first zero emission vehicle that can compete with a diesel on urban delivery routes.
