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In the search for growth!

Submitted by Peter Acton
on February 16, 2012 - 10:32

The recent ‘surpise’  rise in employment in the US has highlighted the problems of finding growth areas in the UK economy. How can employers in the logistics sector help to ‘stimulate the recovery’ by taking people on.

 

Retail sales over Christmas and January have not been too encouraging but there is one area where the logistics sector has been doing ’its bit’.  This is in the area of home delivery.

The Hidden Talent

Submitted by Brian Weatherley
on February 2, 2012 - 07:58

Who’s the most important person in your company? Drivers…the HR manager…the Chairman (well obviously)…your Finance Director? I’ve got my own pet theory on what really makes a logistics operation successful. It’s down to the people who work in the traffic office—the planners, the load schedulers, the transport managers. Between them they hold a unique ‘skills-set’. Only it’s no good me just thinking this. As the great Tex Johnston (Boeing’s legendary test pilot and the only man I know of who ever barrel-rolled a 707) said: “One practical test is worth a thousand expert opinions.”

What does the new year holds for the supply chain industry?

Submitted by Peter Acton
on January 19, 2012 - 00:00

Happy New Year to all Logistics Job Shop blog followers. Can we look forward to some stability, normality and elusive growth in the UK economy? To see Ed Balls every week at PMQs making gestures representing a 'flatlining economy' then it does not look likely. But we all know that politicians are driven by self interest and are not in the 'real world'. So what is the real world, and in particular, the supply chain industry looking like for the UK economy in 2012!

These (steel toe-cap) boots were made for walking...

Submitted by Brian Weatherley
on January 4, 2012 - 23:00

Today’s sermon comes from St Elfin’s epistle to the workers. “And Lo, the Health and Safety inspector did descend from the mount with a mighty handful of tablets. And he spake unto the workers saying: “Thou shalt not…!”

Does the Autumn Statement bring crumbs of comfort for logistics sector

Submitted by Peter Acton
on December 15, 2011 - 13:05

There are few occasions that we look back on as pivotal in the political and economic short term future of the UK. George Osborne’s Autumn Statement is definitely one of them. He told everyone how serious it is; the economic challenges from the Eurozone on the UK economy, the global slowdown, lack of confidence in UK consumer spending and the caution by banks to lend to business. Not a pretty picture for 2012. Being an avowed Keynsian, I was relieved that he did not slam on the borrowing brakes any harder otherwise we will be in deep recession in 2012 without doubt.

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