Economic Logistics

AMD (NYSE:AMD) welcomes the publication of an EU Procurement Guidance document by the United Kingdom’s Office of Government Commerce (OGC) intended to help contracting authorities develop tender documents that comply with EU rules on non-discrimination in public procurement (e.g. EU directive .93/36). This publication follows similar documents already issued by the French, Italian, Swedish, […]

Government have comprehensively revamped stamp paper procurement system by institutionalizing a number of security features and it has done away with the practice of taking orders on a quarterly basis. The States are now required to place 3 years rolling indent with a six monthly supply schedule to ensure realistic indent and better production planning. […]

HAISAN Resources Bhd will implement a radio frequency identification and warehouse management system (WMS), which incorporates a distribution and transportation management module (DTM), as part of plans to upgrade its temperature-controlled logistics division.
The system will be set up in its subsidiary, Iglo Malaysia, by the third quarter, followed by the group’s Philippines and China […]

NEW YORK, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ — Wako Logistics Group Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: WKOL - News) announced today the appointment of Mr. David Koontz to the position of Chief Financial Officer effective August 8, 2005.
Mr. Koontz has previously held a senior position with a major international accounting firm as well as senior level positions with […]

FORT BELVOIR, Va., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ — Cornel Holder and Eddie Shelton
are the recipients of the 2005 Blacks in Government Civilian Meritorious
Service Award for Outstanding Department of Defense African American
Contributions.
Holder, the Defense National Stockpile Center administrator, was selected
in the GS-14 through GS-15 category.
Shelton, a Defense Supply Center […]

MIAMI, Aug. 10, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) — SiteWorks Building and Development Co. (OTCBB:SWKJ), announced today that the company has the agreed to appoint Prestige Procurement and Networking Services (Prestige) as its representative in Asia. As a result of the discussion held a week prior to the signing of the service agreement yesterday enabling Prestige to operate […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 10, 2005–Menlo Worldwide, a division of CNF Inc. (NYSE:CNF), is among the very best 3PL providers in the world, according to a survey conducted by the editors of Inbound Logistics magazine. As part of the magazine’s annual Top 100 3PL Provider Awards for 2005, Menlo Worldwide came in 4th place out […]

Local businesses that sell to government may have to rethink the goods and services they offer thanks to a new federal emphasis on sustainable development.
The federal government has created the Office of Greening Government Operations (OGGO) to centralize a number of “greening” initiatives announced in recent years that have a direct bearing on the massive […]

Optimum utilisation of scarce resources is the hallmark of good economic governance. But this standard of economic governance is never achieved in the vital sphere of government procurement in Bangladesh. Notwithstanding gradual privatisation of the economy from the middle seventies, government is still a big player in the economic scene of the country. Government […]

India is building up a satellite-based Military Surveillance and Reconnaissance System that will become operational by 2007, allowing it to keep watch on developments in its area. “The program is in the advanced stages of development and is planned to be operational by 2007,” Indian Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in Parliament recently.
The system was […]