New study says financial chiefs neglect procurement
Chief financial officers in businesses worldwide are “shunning risk management in favour of cost cutting, and failing to treat supply chain dangers seriously enough",
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25 June 2009
Norbert wins health & beauty contract
Norbert Dentressangle has won a contract to handle UK warehousing and distribution for Cosmeticus H&B, an importer and distributor of beauty, health and hygiene products.
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25 June 2009
Vitronic captures Spanish delivery company
Spanish express delivery and transport services provider Buytrago has installed Vitronics’s camera-based VIPAC identification system at its Madrid distribution centre.
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25 June 2009
DHL strengthens Medical Express service
DHL has increased its DHL Medical Express service to deal with the inbound and outbound transport of time-sensitive medicines,
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25 June 2009
Jaguar outsources B2B e-commerce with GXS
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has chosen GXS Managed Services to enable it to continue to work with more electronic data interchange (EDI) based suppliers around the world.
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25 June 2009
UK must do more to compete with world trade
International traders have called on the British government to step up its efforts towards international trade or face losing out to European rivals. ...
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19 June 2009
Bolam calls for competitors to collaborate
Brian Bolam, director of ELUPEG, has called for companies to open up more to collaboration, not just with suppliers, and service providers, but with direct competitors.
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19 June 2009
Savoye wins 4m euro retail contract
French children’s fashion retailer ïdgroup has invested four million euros in an automated warehouse solution from Savoye for its 15,000 sq m distribution site in Leers, northern France.
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19 June 2009
K+N wins hotel logistics contract
Kuehne + Nagel has won a contract with Quadriga, provider of Internet and entertainment services for the hotel industry across Europe and the Middle East.
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19 June 2009
Production to stop at Linde Basingstoke factory
Kion Group, the parent company of Linde Material Handling, is closing the Linde Basingstoke factory as part of a Europe-wide consolidation plan.
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19 June 2009
Pharmaceutical win for Four Soft
Pharmaceutical distributor Polar Speed Distribution has chosen Four Soft’s 4S eLog system to improve the management of its UK temperature-controlled warehouses.
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19 June 2009
FTA backs EU co-modality plan
The Freight Transport Association has backed the EU Commission’s The Future of European Transport Policy document, which points to multi-modality as the way forward for freight.
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19 June 2009
Deloitte sets out four-point plan to squeeze supply chain costs
Manufacturers need to be tactical in their approach to supply chain management to survive the downturn, according to consultants Deloitte
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15 June 2009
Colgate Palmolive moves to CHEP in Denmark
Colgate Palmolive is now using CHEP blue pallets, rather than white exchange pallets, for distributing products in Denmark....
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15 June 2009
Ceva in the Spotlight
Fabric, craft and home interior retailer Spotlight has signed a deal with Ceva Logistics to manage all inbound international freight and the domestic delivery of product to its 88 stores across Australia. ...
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15 June 2009