The hotly contested online retail market is now being fought on the “key battleground” of delivery speed, according to a report from Royal Mail into Britons’ online shopping habits. Royal Mail found that 84% of online shoppers take a seller’s delivery rating into account when deciding whether – and where – to buy goods from […]
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We recently reported the worries of the Freight Transport Association about the risk of an HGV driver shortage affecting Christmas logistics following Brexit in 2019, as one in eight drivers currently come from other EU countries. But new figures from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation show that the HGV driver shortage is already starting to
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Many supply chains experience seasonality in one form or another, and this is particularly apparent in retail supply chains in the run-up to Christmas. But there are many other forms of seasonality, from changing weather conditions and temperature, to cyclical and erratic peaks in demand. An article in the January 2018 issue of Computers &
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As we move towards the final three months of the year, the challenge of delivering Christmas 2017 will be the top priority for many, if not all logistics operators and their customers – but some are rightly looking ahead to 2019 and the first post-Brexit Christmas. If the negotiations keep to the current schedule, the
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