Just two delegate places left for the Total Supply Chain Summit
We have just two places remaining for this month’s Total Supply Chain Summit, which takes place on May 21st & 22nd at Heythrop Park, Oxfordshire. It is free for you to attend – are you able to join us? Register now as these last places will go quickly. Simply click here and complete the form. […]
GUEST BLOG: Which monsters are hiding under your inventory duvet?
By Ciara O’Brien, The Sequoia Partnership If you’re in the business of making, moving and selling you’ll inevitably have had the conversations about inventory: Finance worry that there’s too much, Sales feel there’s never enough of the right stuff and the Supply Chain team are often just trying to survive. At The Sequoia Partnership we believe […]
Trio joins ICFM Corporate Investor Programme
Three more major organisations operating in the company car and van sector have joined ICFM’s Corporate Investor Programme, which is designed to appeal to employers that provide products and services to fleets. The organisations are: The Accident Exchange Group of companies, which offers protection and monitoring services as well appropriate replacement vehicles following non-fault accidents; […]
Up the revolution, says AXIT
The digital revolution is making supply chains greener – That’s the finding of the IT experts at AXIT, a Siemens company. The ‘Green Paper’ published by the cloud specialist examines the effects of the digital revolution on logistical processes from various perspectives. The assessment is based on the control of supply chains using AX4. The cloud-based […]
Ideagen appoints Ian Hepworth as new CTO
UK-based quality, safety, audit, performance and risk management software developer Ideagen has appointed Ian Hepworth as its new Chief Technology Officer. Hepworth will oversee the company’s technical function, the largest single department in the Ideagen Group, from the beginning of May. He boasts over 25 years’ experience in solutions architecture, programme management and infrastructure and […]
CASE STUDY: Distribution Centre Project Funding
Key Finance recently worked with a leading UK wholesale food and distribution retail business after it purchased an outdated distribution centre that required a refit and refurbishment. An extra complication was that the distribution centre consisted of two sites, with funding required for almost everything inside and attached to the buildings, including, but not limited […]
Transport & Logistics: The 2018 Buying Trends
Cost Reductions (unsurprisingly), Couriers Services and 3PL are the key areas of interest for the UK’s logistics and transport professionals. The findings come from a survey of the senior supply chain, logistics and distribution professionals attending this summer’s Total Supply Chain Summit, which takes place on May 21st & 22nd at Heythrop Park, Oxfordshire. Other […]
SSI Schaefer launches new labour & resource management system
SSI Schaefer has introduced the WAMAS LRM (labour and resource management) System at the recent CeMAT event. According to the company, it brings intralogistics into a new era of optimised performance and guaranteed maximum information transparency. The intelligent system looks at everything from individual processes to the entire internal material flow in order to optimize […]
5 Minutes With… Gary Frankham, Still Materials Handling
The Advanced Applications Specialist talks to the Supply Chain Briefing about fuel economy, reduction in waste, Brexit and decision-makers not making decisions Tell us about your company, products and services. Still UK are a subsidiary of the Global Manufacturer Kion, offering a full range of leading edge MHE from pallet trucks through to full automation. […]
Do you provide Inventory Management solutions? We want to hear from you!
Each month on Supply Chain Briefing we’ll be shining the spotlight on a different part of the logistics and distribution market – and in May we’ll be focussing on Inventory Management. It’s all part of our ‘Recommended’ editorial feature, designed to help supply chain industry buyers find the best products and services available today. So, if you’re […]
