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Ceva wins five-year European pharma deal in Belgium
Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceutica has selected Ceva Logistics to manage its European distribution centre.
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BDP buys Euromodal SA
US based logistics company BDP International has acquired the Spanish company Euromodal SA
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Ceva acquires Italian pharma firm
Ceva Logistics has entered the pharmaceutical market in Italy following the acquisition of DIMAF Pharma Supply Chain
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Audi boosts sales offering with Wincanton
Audi has chosen Wincanton to implement its interactive sales support tool, the Audi Configurator, across retail stores in Germany
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Fashion waste targeted through better supply chain management
Surplus stock in the fashion industry being binned or destroyed could be avoided through better supply chain management, according to retail technology expert Torex.
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Cadbury team wins The Fresh Connection
Cadbury team "Purple Passion" has won SCALA's supply chain competition The Fresh Connection
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£3.3m dairy supply chain project for Wales
Welsh rural affairs minister Elin Jones has launched a project designed to support the dairy industry in Wales to improve the efficiency, sustainability and added value of the dairy supply chain
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Ford sets out action on supply chain sustainability
Motor industry giant Ford has set out the steps it is taking to reduce the carbon footprint of its supply chain in its “2009/10 Blueprint for Sustainability: The Future at Work”
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Data inaccuracy costs retail £1.4 bn
A new white paper, co athored by Professor Alan Braithwaite, estimates that data inaccuracy among the top five retailers and their suppliers is costing as much as £1.4 billion per year – a considerably higher figure than previously estimated
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NHS could save £300m by improving supply chain
Sentient Health estimates that the NHS could save £300 million over three years through more effective supply chain management
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DHL launches multi-modal China-Europe services
DHL Global Forwarding and Freight is rolling out a suite of multi-modal services that combines air, road, rail and sea transport to move cargo from China to the rest of the world.
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Vanderlande launches new automated case picker
Vanderlande Industries has completed development and implementation of its automated case picker, which forms the heart of the company’s new automated case picking system
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Change has to come from the top
How capable are we of transforming our supply chains? Confidence may be growing in terms of a recovering economy and expectations of increased demand; however, findings from two recent high level surveys suggest that this optimism is tempered by a lack of
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US supply chain in Afghanistan may be funding Taliban
A report into the US supply chain in Afghanistan details the way in which tens of millions of dollars of US government cash is being siphoned off into a shadowy network of Afghan warlords and corrupt officials and may be a significant source of funding fo
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Survey highlights difficulties of supply chain strategy implementation
Only a tiny proportion of supply chain strategy implementations run on-time and on-budget, a survey by Cranfield School of Management and Solving Efeso has revealed
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PRTM study highlights five key supply chain challenges
Companies face five key supply chain challenges as they seek to take advantage of the economic recovery, according to a new study by PRTM Management Consultants
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Siemens to centralise supply chain modelling
Siemens Industries is centralising its supply chain modelling and has selected Barloworld Supply Chain Software for supply chain modelling, network design and optimisation
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Moët Hennessy signs two-year K+N deal
Moët Hennessy, the drinks division of the LVMH Moet Hennessy – Louis Vuitton Group, has signed a contract with Kuehne + Nagel to become its exclusive logistics provider for warehousing and distribution services in Spain.
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US logistics group opens in Vietnam
US logistics group BDP International has set up a subsidiary in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam with representation in the other commercial centres of Da Nang and Hanoi
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Pharmacists seek new supply chain vision
The National Pharmacy Association, which represents community pharmacies, is calling on members to get involved in developing a new vision for the medicines supply chain for the medium and long-term.
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