Tag: UK

Mory Group sets up in Asia

Posted by | Oct 27, 2007 | |

Mory Group strengthens its positioning as a major player in Overseas transportation, by being now settled in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Ningbo.

With common activities of Sea Freight and Air Freight, the Mory Overseas Asia offices also offer you logistics services as well as extra-services (purchase / sale of textile quotas, managed by the Hong Kong office, which is also an accountant centre Hkg / China), and guarantee you an optimal service level (Class A International license).

Mory Overseas Asia also provides you the physical presence of professionals and experts, who perfectly know the cultural and administrative habits of each country, in each of our offices.

You hence have the guarantee that each transportation order is managed by a known contact, who has the expertise of his sector, and who is available and reachable at any time.

Finally, Mory Overseas Asia gathers a whole network of Agents in China, in the main ports and airports.

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Royal Mail stops Sunday collections

Posted by | Oct 27, 2007 | |

Royal Mail is to stop Sunday collections from post boxes and business from tomorrow.

The company, which introduced the service in 1990, had collected from 18,000 post boxes across the UK each Sunday.

But it said there was limited customer demand and that Sunday collections accounted for less than 1 pct of all mail posted each week.

Royal Mail said it also cost four times as much to handle Sunday mail compared to items collected on other days.

Information on the affected post boxes has been changed and those in areas of high usage will be monitored and emptied if there is a risk of overflowing.

Postal watchdog Postwatch carried out a survey into the demand for Sunday collections earlier this year and found that 68 pct of people said they used the service ‘very seldom’ or ‘never’.

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Homeserve deals Royal Mail another blow

Posted by | Oct 26, 2007 | |

Homeserve, the emergency policy and repair business, has handed TNT Post its mailing contract, signaling another blow to Royal Mail.

The deal, which will see Homeserve move its business from Royal Mail to TNT, is due to competitive prices and TNT’s clearer view of its business delivery service.

The move will cause another blow to Royal Mail – already in the midst of internal turmoil – as Homeserve is just one of the many businesses that has moved its business out of the postal operator in the past year. Royal Mail lost out to TNT for Emap’s GBP 1.6m subscriptions contract in August and BT’s delivery of The Phone Book contract in April.

The repeated loss of business and necessity to keep up with competition is one of the main reasons why Royal Mail wants to modernise its business, which has resulted in weeks of postal strikes recently.

TNT also handles contracts from customers including Centrica, Lloyds TSB, HBOS and Barclays.

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Royal Mail opts for SAP to cut sourcing costs

Posted by | Oct 26, 2007 | |

Royal Mail is aiming to save GBP 300m on procurement costs by 2009 with the help of a hosted e-sourcing application from SAP.

The SAP application went live in June after a relatively short two-phase implementation of just over three months and is being used by more than 100 Royal Mail staff.

The SAP-hosted software will help the procurement team manage £2.3bn of annual expenditure by Royal Mail. It replaces disparate systems and gives staff greater visibility across the contracting process.

Daniel Cameron, Royal Mail procurement director of performance and transformation, told silicon.com: “What’s become very evident is the technology gives us more bandwidth and shortens the procurement process.”

The application being used is from SAP’s 2006 acquisition of Frictionless Commerce.

Cameron said going for the hosted option represented a change in approach by Royal Mail.

Royal Mail is working with SAP on extra functionality for the future, including features such as vendor management.

His advice to other companies is to take a phased, rather than a big-bang, approach and do plenty of road testing to ensure it is fit-for-purpose from day one.

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PalletFORCE sponsors Transport Award

Posted by | Oct 26, 2007 | |

PalletFORCE has sponsored the Transport Policy and Planning Award at the recent CILT Annual Awards for Excellence.

CILT, the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK, is the pre-eminent independent professional body for individuals associated with logistics, supply chains and all transport throughout their careers. The Annual Awards presented to individuals and organisations that can demonstrate achievement in logistics and transport that encourage best practice and the highest standards of excellence in the industry

PalletFORCE selected its chosen category because it chimes with the Network’s commitment to sound transport planning, as Business Development Director Alan Cooke explains. “The whole ethos of a palletised distribution network is to deliver greater efficiencies into the supply chain. The Transport Policy and Planning Award is geared towards rewarding initiatives that demonstrate similar thinking, so it was a natural fit.”

Alan Cooke joined PalletFORCE Shareholder Members and customers at the awards dinner held on the 11th October 2007 at the London Marriott Hotel. He also presented the Award to the winner, PD Ports, for its proposal to develop a new £300m deep sea container terminal on the south side of the River Tees, an ambitious project which will bring significant benefits to the UK economy. The terminal known as The Northern Gateway Container Terminal will provide quicker access to the North and Scotland, reducing lorry miles per container by an average of 70 miles equating to 70 million lorry miles in the UK by 2020.

“This plan represents a comprehensive means of improving the UK’s logistical efficiency and will be a real boon to the transport industry,” comments Alan Cooke. “We are sure that PalletFORCE’s Members will be amongst the many hauliers who will benefit from it.”

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