NW Aerospace Alliance expands
The North West Aerospace Alliance has hired Carole Stewart as skills coordinator and Kristian Samways as innovation coordinator for the Aerospace Supply Chain Excellence programme, a £11.4 million scheme which aims to deliver around 400 new jobs and... Published:  31 January 2012

DHL on board at launch of European healthcare association
DHL Supply Chain has become a founding member of the European Association for Healthcare Logistics and Transport ... Published:  30 January 2012

Health trusts miss out on best equipment deals, warn MPs
Too few English health trusts are taking full advantage of the framework agreements that NHS Supply Chain negotiates, according to a new report by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee ... Published:  28 October 2011

Tricky operations
Getting closer to the customer is the goal of most organisations and this is particularly true for manufacturers of implantable medical devices. Although there is considerable product innovation to provide better clinical results, the supply... Published:  30 May 2008

Efficiency is on the cards
The drive for efficiency in physical supply chains has benefited firms prepared to adopt new models and technology. Meanwhile, the financial supply chain has ground to make up if it is to avoid becoming a significant bottleneck. ... Published:  01 April 2008

The English patient
Healthcare is a highly political subject. When the UK’s NHS outsourced its supply chain to a logistics services company close scrutiny ensued. But the stakes are high – assurances were given that savings of €127million would bemade each year for ten... Published:  30 May 2008

What's to be heard at ESC 2008
The sixth in the series, the Extended Supply Chain 2008 conference looks set to surpass all others to date. ... Published:  01 February 2008

Balancing risk
Two major humanitarian disasters - the Burmese cyclone and the Chinese earthquake - provided a sombre backdrop to ''Supply Chain Standard''s Roundtable discussion on supply chain risk. But as Dave Food, business development director from the meeting's ... Published:  30 May 2008

Taking the trial out of pharmaceutical testing
Bringing new drugs to market is a very expensive business: typically it can cost over €500 million and - given time limitations on patents - the pharmaceuticals company then has just 5-10 years or so to recoup its investment and make a profit for most... Published:  01 November 2007