Critical Issues

Manufacturing & Logistics IT spoke with a number of the leading vendors and analysts about current key trends and discussion points within the field of transportation management systems and processes.

This report will consider many current key discussion points and recent and ongoing areas of innovation and development with the Transportation Management System (TMS) space.

The March edition of Manufacturing & Logistics IT features an exclusive interview with Vittorio Boero, chief information officer at Ferrari, about the sports and luxury car manufacture's intensive five-year IT re-structuring roadmap.....PLUS a Special Technology Report on Transportation Management from the views of leading vendors and analysts.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's 'War on Paper Cups' campaign swiftly followed by Defra Minister Rory Stewart's announcement that coffee cups 'seem to be a very good thing to look at next' has brought paper cup recyclability sharply into focus.

In an informal poll of over 100 of the UK's leading logistics professionals, more than 60 per cent indicated that, in their opinion, the nation's best interests would be served by Britain remaining part of the EU.

Fleetmatics Group PLC has issued the third edition of its FleetBeat Report, which included an in-depth analysis of the driving behaviour of fleets of customers across the US, incorporating specific regions and industries that experience the most and least severe driving incidents according to the data analysed.

Dematic, the automated intralogistics solutions company, has appointed Matt Hatson as Business Solutions Sales Director for the UK, Ireland, Northern Europe and Scandinavia.

UK logistics operators are being urged to view the forthcoming new European Union legislation for Customs procedures as an opportunity to get ahead of the competition, rather than a hindrance and another bureaucratic hoop to jump through.

Installing a new Warehouse Management System represents a significant investment in both money and time, so it can be frustrating when some members of the workforce reject change before it is even introduced.

The latest raft of EU customs legislation to impact on the third party logistics sector will start to come in to effect from May of this year.

By Alex Mills, Sales & Marketing Director, Chess Logistics Technology.

Most businesses selling items in a shop or online need some form of stock control. When it is a single outlet and the range of products on offer and number of customers buying them is small it is entirely possible to manage this process with little more than a good memory and some simple paper-based processes.

By Mark Newton, Vice President – Applications, UK and Ireland Commercial Industries, Oracle.

Digital technologies such as social, mobile, cloud & analytics are changing the way in which businesses operate.