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News Release from: The Logistics Business
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 August 2004
New Construction Industry Supply Chain
Forum
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport's latest Forum, focusing on the issues and developments of supply chain for the construction industry, has its first Chairman.
Industry expert and director of consultancy The Logistics Business, Rick Ballard, has just officially launched the Construction Supply Chain Forum with meetings in Glasgow and Birmingham "The growing importance of supply chain in the construction industry is at last being widely recognised," states Ballard, who contributed to the recent report of the strategic forum for construction entitled 'Accelerating Change'
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 6 Aug 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We see the opportunity to involve the increasing number of supply chain professionals and innovations that are flowing into the construction industry." The new Construction Supply Chain Forum will act as a centre of excellence for supply chain thinking and a focus for sharing developments, according to Ballard.
Events are planned for the year.
Interested members should contact Rick Ballard on 0121 333 6303 or email rick.ballard@logistics.co.uk.
With 17 years experience in supply chain operations and consultancy, Rick Ballard has been a leading thinker in logistics and a conference speaker over the last decade.
Since co-founding The Logistics Business, he has been involved in major Government and industrial projects focusing on construction.
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