Macildowie, the Midlands financial and HR recruitment company, is launching a dedicated Procurement and Supply Chain Division

FedEx is focusing on improving yields in the coming year after reporting $2bn operating income for the year to 31 May - up from $747m the year before

A new cargo facility is due to open at Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta airport next month with the capacity to store 160 temperature controlled pallets – more than four 747 freighter loads

SerCom Solutions, has launched a supply chain financial optimisation model to companies willing to engage in developing outsourcing partnerships

Software subscriptions and maintenance proved to be the saviour of the supply chain management software market last year, according to research by Gartner.

Managing costs tops the list of US healthcare companies' supply chain concerns, according to the UPS Pain in the (Supply) Chain survey

Companies with best-in-class supply chains generally outperform their rival in terms of business and financial performance, according to a survey by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and TruEconomy Consulting

DHL is targeting public sector food buying arguing that a more collaborative approach run by the private sector could save £100 million – about one fifth of the current level of spending

Gieves and Hawkes, the Savile Row tailor, is investing in its supply chain to grow its online sales with the implementation of a retail system from K3 Retail

Panalpina has begun operations from a new 450,000 sq ft multimodal transit and logistics hub in the Dubai Logistics City free trade zone

Unilever has selected Kuehne+Nagel to handle warehousing of its home and personal care product range for Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Moldova

A bad experience with deliveries or returns will make 58 per cent of shoppers abandon that online retailer permanently, according to new research

The US logistics industry is starting to bounce back from the recession, according to The 21st annual State of Logistics Report, released by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals and presented by Penske Logistics

Waitrose supply chain director Mark Williamson is moving to replace its outgoing commercial director Richard Hodgson, who is taking a similar role at Morrisons

Women in logistics, which now has some 1,000 members, has set out a five point plan for a successful diversity and inclusion programme which can bring real business benefits to logistics.

Australian logistics group Toll is to acquire DPEX, the express air freight business, from Qantas

Steelwedge, which produces an cloud-computing-based sales and operations planning system, has set up a European headquarters in Birmingham

Achilles, which monitors and evaluates suppliers on behalf of major organisations, has got government backing for its carbonReduction programme.

Automation specialist Vanderlande has joined SAP’s PartnerEdge programme, and has optimised the interface between the SAP environment and Vanderlande’s VISION warehouse management and control system

Apple has topped the AMR Reseach Top 25 Supply Chains for the third year in a row. AMR said Apple had broken new ground in the area of transforming its supply chain into a value chain, starting with the consumer experience and designing its network to ser