Supply Chain

Home Bargains Owner T.J. Morris Secures Carcraft Approval

Home Bargains owner TJ Morris has been granted permission to convert a former dealership next to its UK headquarters into a new staff training centre and t...

UPS Earnings Exceed Analyst Estimates On Strong US Results

United Parcel Service Inc.’s first-quarter profit exceeded analysts’ expectations, helped by a strong supply of US packages. Earnings exclud...

Sainsbury's Becomes Part Of UK's 'Living Grid' Energy Ecosystem

Sainsbury’s has been announced as one of three of the UK’s corporate giants to become pioneer organisations for the Living Grid, a new ene...

KNAPP Unveils Empties-Management Partnership

In the summer of 2011, Kempf and KNAPP signed the first contract for the construction of a semi-automatic empties-sorting system, in Offenburg, which was&n...

Over 25% Of Top UK Retailers Now Using RFID Tags, Says GS1

A survey by GS1 UK has found that over 25 per cent of the UK’s top retailers, including Marks and Spencer, Tesco, and Asda, are already using RFID (r...

Robots Replacing Japan Farmers Seen Preserving Food Security

As the average age of farmers globally creeps higher and retirement looms, Japan has a solution: robots and driver-less tractors. The Group-of-Seven agr...

Tesco To Source More Seafood In A Sustainable Way

British supermarket giant Tesco has announced a number of measures, which will see it source more of the seafood it sells in a sustainable way, in partners...

Oil Market Deja Vu Triggers Predictions Of A Return To $30

Oil’s climb above $45 a barrel is reassuring influential figures from BP Plc to the International Energy Agency that the industry is finally recoveri...