Snow falling in the streets of a multi modal Manchester freight extravaganza, ample networking to talk freight delivery on every level, clean air to congestion, recruitment to kerb space parking.
It was a bicycle to station, train to Manchester and a tram to the venue for four modal streams to the full house Manchester event.
Virtual courier bays, workforce solutions for logistics, train final mile, travel demand management for smart motorways and the four Rs, re-time, re-route, reduce, re-mode.
The Institute of Couriers spent life on the yellow carpet at the Coventry Arena IntraLogisteX trade show, a packed full house of all things logistics in the very last days of February. Snow hit the roads of delivery to challenge final mile express delivery beyond a peak.
Meanwhile in the warm halls of Intralogistex, guests at the show who covered all streams of logistics from road, rail, air and sea were challenged wit the task of defining the term ‘Express’ . Supply chain is the well respected term of material from source to client, purchase, manufacture, storage and logistics. The term logistics defining the transport and storage of the goods. Client chain is a new term driven by e-retail as the client begins to drive the timescales, not the raw materials.
Carl Lomas, chair of the Institute of Couriers and fellow in logistics at the University of Derby delivered the keynote speech on Express final mile logistics to a full seminar, standing room only on the yellow carpets of Coventry arena Intralogistex show.
‘Can we educate the client chain with a carbon solution ?’
‘LoCity electrics, there are two groups, one charging at depot, the other home charging at roadside, the challenges are big at the roadside!’
‘How are we educating our next generation logisticians, the Trailblazer solutions’
Lomas covered the diversity of final mile from parcel and packet mail to clothing and food retail, using his classic Pineapple, multi-modal delivery of groceries free of charge to your door. Exploding express numbers, where did it begin and where will it end ?
IOC asked the question, what is this thing called express ?
Collecting a data sample with the aid of three Universities to look at the belief in the term, final mile - final metre, home delivery, who and what are we as a sector ?
Carl Lomas delivered a keynote speech on Express final mile logistics, innovation and the challenges. Workforce solutions through levy at mid-day on the first day of the show.
Inspection revealed food had been stored safely.
The Colonel is back on the road.
Rare to see our sector make such national news. A run of national meetings in logistics this week, ‘don’t mention the word chicken.’ as the KFC move from Bidvest to DHL unfolded with issues that brought delivery chain awareness to the World.
When big supply chains break it reveals the complexity of what we do and when the paperwork got sorted the news was good.
Rugby Borough Council
the food was stored safely.
IOC from Down-Under with Bob Black to out East
Prof Ming Lim takes new IOC role as head of Asia interest group
Tracey Worth reports,
The IOC is pleased to announce the spread of our institute as we see IOC Fellows work around the world. Bob Black a Founding Fellow, of TNT now heading up Australia and New Zealand and now we are pleased to announce that IOC Fellow Dr Ming Lim will chair our Asia Group as he takes up the post as Dean of College at Chongqing University, China.
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