Logistics

Tesco reviews its shelf-ready packaging

19-Nov-2007 By Rick Pendrous

Tesco is reviewing all its shelf-ready packaging (SRP) following pressure to reduce packaging waste and after accepting that much of the packaging...

How to be green and lean

29-Oct-2007 By Hugh Williams

And I thought that after many years of slow but locally efficient supply chains, lean had taken over: you signed up to the fact that sending a...

Morrison drives benefits with regional transport operation

29-Oct-2007 By Rick Pendrous

Supermarket chain Morrison claims to have already achieved significant business and environmental benefits since starting to bring together two very...

Nestlé raises the temperature with 10-year Innovate deal

29-May-2007 By Rick Pendrous

Nestlé has signed a 10-year contract with Innovate Logistics that will see the temperature-controlled storage and distribution provider taking over...

Time to stop trucking around

27-Nov-2006 By Elaine Watson

You take the high road ... and I'll take the high road, manufacturer urges Scottish firms

Too much stock in ambient supply chain, say retailers

13-Nov-2006 By Elaine Watson

Retailers are holding far too much safety stock in their ambient supply chains, logistics bosses have claimed.Speaking at the IGD supply chain summit...

Reconciling stock? Act now or pay later ...

30-Oct-2006

I lost an argument three months ago over the frequency with which stocks should be reconciled between a manufacturer and his new third-party...

Just in time

02-Oct-2006 By Elaine Watson

The ambient food supply chain will gradually follow in the footsteps of chilled, the boss of Baylis Logistics informs Elaine Watson

Solutions for small deliveries

07-Aug-2006 By Elaine Watson

A small logistics firm offering creative solutions to the problem of distributing small loads to supermarkets and foodservice outlets is on course to...

Views sought over symbolic gesture

05-Dec-2005

Suppliers unhappy with new packaging symbols designed by an industry group to identify cases in shops' warehouses should raise their objections now,...

Northern results rally as 1,000 suppliers are given the chop

05-Dec-2005 By Elaine Watson

Question over future of distribution business as rationalisation plan delivers profits

Go with the flow, says Asda

05-Dec-2005

We thought until earlier this month that retail-ready packaging was the main current, retailer-led change initiative.However, in October Asda...

Suppliers bury hatchets and collaborate

10-Aug-2005

A clutch of food suppliers --some in direct competition with each other - are working together on a project designed to reduce empty running and...

Food goes radio ga ga

13-Jun-2005 By Elaine Watson

There is a business case for RFID tags on returnable assets, but the jury is still out when it comes to mass tagging of cases, says Elaine Watson

It's good to talk

11-May-2005 By Elaine Watson

Effective demand planning for promotions continues to be scuppered by poor communications both within and between companies, according to a new study...

Falling stock levels are a triumph for ECR

07-Jan-2005

The UK's leading food and grocery retailers are now holding record low levels of stock in their stores as a result of increasing efficiency in their...

Transport costs set to soar with WTD

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 push factory gate pricing up the chain

29-Jul-2004 By Rick Pendrous

Factory gate pricing (FGP) could soon become an approach commonly used by manufacturers in dealings with their own suppliers, following the success...