13-Dec-2004 - Product traceability is at the core of a new partnership which brings together Domino Printing Sciences and Omron Electronics.The two companies have combined their expertise...
17-Nov-2004 - Wincanton operates Heinz's national distribution centre (NDC) at Wigan under an open contract which runs until 2009. Rick Pendrous describes an arrangement where both parties benefit financially from efficiency gains made
17-Nov-2004 - Professor Daniel Jones, a keynote speaker at this month's Collaboration Forum, highlights the need to build a lean supply chain
17-Nov-2004 - Logistics costs will rise once the Working Time Directive (WTD) covering 'mobile workers' comes into force next march, according to a new survey of manufacturers...
17-Nov-2004 - You know how bad news nearly always seems exaggerated by the media -- that is, until you are faced with just that problem yourself. Well,...
17-Nov-2004 - Two-thirds of UK manufacturers think that radio frequency identification (RFID) -- radio barcodes -- will not be widely adopted for at least two years, according...
06-Oct-2004 - Tracking and traceability
06-Oct-2004 - Pantek has launched a 'rapid adoption programme' for products such as InTouch
06-Oct-2004 - Transport costs can be slashed by 20% with a routing and scheduling package
06-Oct-2004 - Enterprise resource planning and advanced planning systems can both help companies with their forecasting. But which one is best suited to you? Kathy Watson reports
06-Oct-2004 - Westler Foods has installed a WMS following a decision to bring logistics back in-house
06-Oct-2004 - The recent acquisition of Tibbett & Britten (TBL) by Exel has raised no regulatory issues nor does it seem to have upset TBL customers in...
06-Oct-2004 - Heinz will be looking for other ambient food manufacturers to take up the spare capacity released at its highly automated national distribution centre (NDC) at...
06-Oct-2004 - Supermarket chain Asda is rolling out factory gate pricing (FGP), but unlike its arch rival Tesco it claims not to be putting its suppliers under...
09-Sep-2004 - It costs around 50p to get an average, ambient case of grocery products from the back door of a Tesco or Sainsbury regional distribution centre...
09-Sep-2004 - The food and drink industry's main 'pain points' in supply chain planning are likely to emerge when the results of a new industry survey are...
29-Jul-2004 - I recently met a man who told me about the way his company had adopted a really innovative way of managing proof of delivery (POD)...
29-Jul-2004 - Factory gate pricing (FGP) could soon become an approach commonly used by manufacturers in dealings with their own suppliers, following the success of a UK...
15-Jul-2004 - Inspection service specialist Efsis has introduced a fully accredited standard for food distribution -- the Storage and Distribution Standard -- as a safeguard for the...
15-Jul-2004 - Why do companies not devote the same professional skills to managing their warehouses as they do to their factories?A supply chain manager for a food...
15-Jul-2004 - Savings of up to 20% are possible in the pork sausage supply chain, according to a new study from the Food Chain Centre and Red...
15-Jul-2004 - Grampian Country Food Group plans to centralise its chicken business and make better use of IT systems to improve the communications throughout its supply chain...
30-Jun-2004 - I remember a whisky distiller that had 36 key performance indicators (KPIs) which occupied a whole wall in the chief executive's office. They gave a...
30-Jun-2004 - Unilever Bestfoods (UBF) has selected Power Europe, an Exel company, to develop and manage a new automated national distribution centre at Kingswood Lakeside in Cannock,...
30-Jun-2004 - Westler Foods has significantly reduced supply chain problems it had been experiencing by replacing a third-party contractor based in Coventry and bringing warehousing back into...