P&G commends Agility Pakistan
Procter & Gamble has awarded Agility Pakistan its QA Pinnacle Award following an audit of the company’s distribution centres by its Worldwide Quality Assurance team. ... Published:  05 January 2009

New win for Wincanton with Blédina
Wincanton has won a contract to manage the logistics in France for Blédina, a baby food manufacturer that is part of the Danone Group. ... Published:  05 January 2009

ELUPEG launches memorial award
ELUPEG has set up a memorial award to commemorate Dr Marilyn Stone who was a founder member of ELUPEG and a senior lecturer at Heriot Watt University. ... Published:  20 November 2008

Shelf assessment
If you're in FMCG manufacturing, then I'm sure you have experienced the problems that occur all too often in fulfilling 'special promotion' campaigns. Poor communication of shelf-level sales performance data and fuzzy visibility of shopper insights are... Published:  03 October 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

Guy's & Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Innovation is a tricky thing to assess. Whereas many may believe they are being innovative with their initiatives, others may see those approaches as merely good practice solutions or perhaps just novel developments. ... Published:  01 December 2008

Green impact
In stark contrast to the strong rating of the significance of green issues to the development of the business only 23 per cent measure the carbon footprint of their products Over the last decade outsourcing the manufacturer of goods to distant,... Published:  30 May 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

Reducing the risk of sc transformation
Retailers and manufacturers are under immense pressure to increase the performance of their supply chains, so it is not surprising that many resort to tough tactics in response to growing competition. ... Published:  30 May 2008