articleAre agency workers exploited?
Agency workers are commonly used in warehousing and logistics. Here, logistics professional Carey Jebb asks should they get the same pay and conditions as permanent workers?
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articleAllocate cost accurately with Yusen audit tool
Yusen Logistics has launched Freight Auditing Tool to give transparency to freight invoicing throughout lengthy and complex supply chains. The tool has been implemented with a European retailer with a global supplier base and is available to all industries.
articleYodel’s Dick Stead refuses to be a ‘busy fool’
In this thought leadership article, Yodel supremo Dick Stead puts his foot down and demands ‘honesty, transparency and a fair price’ after Christmas 2014 ‘broke the mould’.
newsYodel leads way in customer feedback
Yodel has recorded over one million customer feedback responses and a marked rise in satisfaction, thanks to the company’s customer experience management programme, Have Your Say.
articleYusen Logistics slashes barrier repair cost
You want barrier systems to stop MHE when they collide, but given how often this can happen in the warehouse, it’s also worth considering how much it costs to repair or replace the barrier.
articleDB Schenker Logistics takes on first CarryPick solution
Automation specialists, Swisslog, is to deliver its newly developed order fulfilment system for DB Schenker Logistics in Arlandastad, Sweden.
productChairmen of the BOARD
Supply chain and logistics consultancy, The Logistics Business, has chosen BOARD as a strategic business intelligence partner to add value to its existing consultancy services.
articlePalletline reduces pallet weight on tail lift deliveries
The move is a bid to improve health and safety processes. Palletline claims it is the first operator to reduce the maximum weight of pallets on tail lift deliveries to 750kg.
articleAnticipating a complex future
Vocollect explores what impact the rise of Omni-channel Retail will have on the warehouse and on 3PLs.
newsPerth Food and Drink Park opens
The Food and Drink Park – representing a £5m investment by Perth and Kinross Council – provides up to 11 serviced development plots across a 16 acre site.
articleTime saved by automating orders
3PL RIF Logistics streamlines its operations by automating order processing. RIF installed a WMS from Advanced Business Solutions.
productUrban mining
International courier ParcelHero says delivery companies can help green our cities by following Holland’s ‘urban mining’ initiative, whereby multiple deliveries are sent to a central freight hub, where they are bundled and delivered to the customer at a convenient time.
productPalletised contract win
Steve Porter Transport Group has entered into a new national palletised deal with Meachers Global Logistics. The Isle of Wight’s largest independent freight carrier will be delivering 10,000 pallets per year from Meachers’ Nursling warehouse to locations across the UK.
articleClipper automates returns process with LB Foster
The ever-increasing success of online fashion shopping led to a demand for greater capacity for processing returns at Clipper’s Selby distribution centre.
articleWomenswear label inks deal with CML
Finery London has picked Core Management Logistics to provide its warehouse and distribution services.
articlePacking bench an important retail battleground
Expertise at the packing bench increases fulfillment efficiency and enhances customer experience. Here, Woodway illustrates how it trains the trainers for retailers.
articleSupply chain leaders tackle retail dilemmas
The LCP Consulting 2015 Leadership Seminar brought together top retailers John Lewis, Argos and Fat Face to offer insight on Solving the Omni-channel Dilemma.
articleFedEx bid for TNT will ‘create a more competitive market’
FedEx’s £3.2bn bid for Dutch parcel delivery firm TNT Express has sparked a boost in courier company shares.
productEuropean consignments
Leading logistics business, Pallet-Track, has made company history by opening up its delivery service to 56 countries for the first time after servicing the UK exclusively for the last 10 years. This means the 80 members of the Wolverhampton-based Pallet-Track network are now able to move their consignments into Europe after a partnership deal was signed with international supply chain specialists Hellmann Worldwide Logistics UK
articleFight to compete with the big boys
With the Internet offering a huge opportunity for retailers, how do smaller companies compete with the ‘big boys’ when the economies of scale lie elsewhere, asks Geoff Taylor, group sales director at iForce?
