Hays – After the warning the questions commence
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Dynamic scheduling – delivery slots on demand?
The guy who can give the narrowest time window for deliveries is the one who will clean up.” So said Paul Palmer of routing and scheduling specialist DPS International this June during the launch of a new Web-enabled client-server version of his firm’s LogiX system.
Also in June, during the Institute of Logistics and Transport’s annual conference, Bernard Auton of Unipart Technology Logistics commented: “Lack of capability to reschedule journeys dynamically is one of the biggest problems for home deliveries.”
Take these two observations together and you begin to see why dynamic rescheduling could become a real growth area in the coming months. It’s a familiar concept, but has not so far been implemented widely. Now interest appears to be hotting up.
Read MoreOnline exchanges – rivalries between systems are subverting the good intentions
It seemed like a good idea at the time; and Carrefour, Sainsbury’s and at least twenty other retailers still believe they are on to a Good Thing with GNX, the marketplace (also called a trading exchange or portal) for retailers to use for communicating and collaborating with suppliers. Not only can orders be placed, processed and tracked online, but things like promotion planning and monitoring and product specification and design can also be carried out by any number of relevant parties through one computer system.
This, surely, should reduce time to market, cut costs, result in more appropriate products and therefore higher sales, and strengthen working relationships.
In theory, yes. But – and it’s a big but -Tesco, acting like a spoiled schoolboy, decided it couldn’t join the same community as Sainsbury’s, so it set up its own marketplace, WWRE (Worldwide Retail Exchange). It now claims to have over 50 retailer members.
Read MoreU.S. PostNet establishes shaky presence in Guangzhou
U.S. based PostNet International Franchise Corp. PostNet is still trying to gain a foothold in China.
Read MoreENEL unit launches Speedpost business postal service in Italy
ENEL SpA said its information technology unit Enel.it has launched
a new business postal service in Italy called ‘Speedpost’.
Lost in the mail: The letter telling Post Office staff to improve or face lay-offs
A STIFF wake-up call to Britain’s postal services to improve letter
deliveries or face the lose of thousands of jobs appeared to have gone
astray yesterday. Consignia, the new name for the Post Office, was forced to
admit to a public relations disaster when 1,300 confidential letters sent out to
members of their own staff were delivered to the wrong addresses
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