Royal Mail Group last week issued a tender notice for consultancy services to overhaul its 1.8 billion GBP annual procurement spend.
The Procurement Transformation Project will run for three years from the award of the deal.
The notice said the aim is to “help develop procurement at the Royal Mail Group into a world-class organisation”.
Read MoreCTT FINANÇA (Postal financial services of the Portuguese posts) has gained international recognition from EUROGIRO last June, in Pfäffikon, Switerzland during the EUROGIRO Network, A/S meeting, for its commitment in the development and launch of the Tele Money Order service. TMO allows money remittances in 48h
Read MoreCTT Correios de Portugal has issued a Code of Ethics to be put in practice within the CTT Group. This Code is to be used as a behavioural and management set of principles for all CTT workers in their professional relationships with their peers, leaders, customers or any other stakeholder in order to strengthen the image of CTT.
Read MoreCTT Correios de Portugal has launched a free digital mail service last June. Thus, 10 million electronic personal postal boxes, one for each citizen, company and institution are available to users who may register themselves by Internet or at any of the 1000 Post Offices in the country.
Read MoreRoad-user charging schemes have been introduced in Switzerland, Austria and Germany. Britain is planning to launch its Lorry Road User Charging (LRUC) system in 2008. The various schemes differ in their objectives, coverage, technology, procedures and toll levels. This paper compares currently operating systems and that planned for the UK. It concludes that the British system will be the most complex and yet, unlike the others, result in a net loss of tax revenue. The paper also assesses the possible effects of lorry road-user charging on a range of logistical variables, including system design, freight modal choice, truck utilisation, vehicle routing and the scheduling of deliveries. It shows how its logistical effects will depend on the nature of the tolling scheme and level of charges.
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