TNT renews contract with Rolls-Royce, extends contract with Courts

TNT has renewed its contract with Rolls-Royce for a further five-year period, and has extended its flat-pack furniture storage contract with Courts to include the company’s leather upholstery range. (1/13/2004)

Rolls Royce has awarded TNT Logistics a five-year contract to manage and control the inbound material flow of aerospace parts from 110 suppliers, based predominantly in the UK, mainland Europe and the USA.

The two companies have collaborated for over three years, and recently jointly won the Institute of Logistics and Transport’s ‘Logistics in Manufacturing Award’ for their e-Manifest supply chain technology. The two companies also jointly won the Motor Transport Technology Award and the International Freighting Weekly Information Technology Award.

“We are absolutely delighted to have been awarded a five year contract with Rolls-Royce and we look forward to continuing our excellent partnership,” said Neil Crossthwaite, MD of TNT Logistics UK. “The three awards we have won together show how well we all work together to improve the Rolls-Royce supply chain.”

Courts has extended its contract with TNT Network Logistics to include the storage and handling of its leather upholstery range from its largest supplier in southern Italy.

The two companies have worked together since May last year, with TNT Network Logistics storing Courts flat-pack furniture as an overflow for Courts’ National Distribution Centre based in Corby, Northamptonshire.

“Courts’ sales of leather upholstery saw significant growth last year and they initially asked us to look at just a four week short-term storage arrangement for upholstery,” explains David Bermingham, MD of TNT Network Logistics. “But now they want us to manage the whole inbound supply chain from Italy.”