By Alex Mills, Sales & Marketing Director, Chess Logistics Technology.
Progressive businesses place web-enabled and cloud-based services at the heart of their operations.
Critical and key issues in material handling, logistics and distribution
Critical issues are thought provoking articles relating to strategy,legislation,technology,best practice and the some of the most challenging business topics in the world of material handling.The articles in this section have been contributed by senior industry leaders, research analysts, trade associations such as the UKWA (United Kingdom Warehousing Association) BIFA (British International Freight Association), the FTA (Freight Transport Association) and the FLTA ( ForkLift Truck Association), as well as many others.
Other important topics covered in this section concern Health and Safety in Logistics with articles from the Health & Safety Executive (HSE).Taxation, government policy,climate change,recruitment and training schemes are all covered, as well as educational opportunities at various UK logistics educational facilities such at Cranfield University.
The missing link in warehouse management
May 03, 2016
Business Collective 1.0: 70% of businesses missing opportunity to develop collaborative solutions to drive customer success
Apr 26, 2016
DHL has launched its latest white paper highlighting the emergence of a new collaborative business model.
Fleet Evolution keeps drivers on the right side of the law
Apr 26, 2016
The pressure to update vehicles is immense, but as it is announced that one in 12 vehicles on the road could have cloned registration plates, Fleet Evolution, provider of salary sacrifice vehicles, has warned car buyers against purchasing vehicles from disreputable sources.
Counterfeit pallet crackdown
Apr 20, 2016
Since its inception in 1991, the European Pallet Association has been an umbrella organisation covering licensed companies which produce and repair EPAL pallets.
Industry experts not surprised at increase in online grocery shopping
Apr 19, 2016
With an increasing number of Brits turning to online grocery shopping, Midland Pallet Trucks, the UK provider of pallet and pump trucks, has highlighted the need for supermarkets to prepare for increased demand to guarantee a streamlined and efficient approach for their customers.
5 Reasons to consider banding over shrink-wrap, polybags or boxes
Apr 12, 2016
By Del Williams, technical writer based in Torrance, California.
For manufacturers and packagers looking to bundle products in quantifiable units or as multi-packs for storage, transport or shelf display, using traditional methods that fully envelop a product such as shrink-wrap, poly-bags, or boxes might be overkill.
On the move - Special Transportation Management Report
Apr 05, 2016
Manufacturing & Logistics IT spoke with a number of the leading vendors and analysts about current key trends and discussion points within the field of transportation management systems and processes.
This report will consider many current key discussion points and recent and ongoing areas of innovation and development with the Transportation Management System (TMS) space.
Manufacturing & Logistics IT March 2016 Edition is now available.
Mar 29, 2016
The March edition of Manufacturing & Logistics IT features an exclusive interview with Vittorio Boero, chief information officer at Ferrari, about the sports and luxury car manufacture's intensive five-year IT re-structuring roadmap.....PLUS a Special Technology Report on Transportation Management from the views of leading vendors and analysts.
Foodservice Packaging Association responds to disposable coffee cups issue
Mar 23, 2016
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's 'War on Paper Cups' campaign swiftly followed by Defra Minister Rory Stewart's announcement that coffee cups 'seem to be a very good thing to look at next' has brought paper cup recyclability sharply into focus.
Supply chain leaders backing Britain to stay in EU
Mar 15, 2016
In an informal poll of over 100 of the UK's leading logistics professionals, more than 60 per cent indicated that, in their opinion, the nation's best interests would be served by Britain remaining part of the EU.
