Global Logistics Management has just been awarded ISO 9001/2008 certification. ISO 9001 is a standard for quality management and successful application means that a company has proved that the way it runs its business is of the highest standard.

Speaking after the presentation of the certificate by QMS International, Mark Bonner, GLM's Operations Director said;

"We are immensely proud to achieve ISO 9001 status. The approval process itself was relatively straightforward as most of the business practices we have used for some time meant that we were close to being an ISO rated company anyway.

Having the certificate is the icing on the cake and is another step forward in our growth"

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GLM have recently renewed its contract with Kelvin Hughes Ltd. The new agreement extends the existing contract long term and covers GLM's management of Kelvin's marine equipment logistics.

As well as providing shipping and delivery services, GLM have recently taken on a more strategic role by implementing a scheduling programme globally for Kelvin Hughes Maritime Industries. The first programme was developed with Kelvin's office in Singapore where GLM worked on new Supply Chain practices which have allowed local staff to spend less time on logistics and more time on developing the business.

This new process is now being rolled out through Kelvin's other offices around the world and is part of GLM's continuance improvement programme.

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Global Logistics Management have recently become the official logistics provider to the UK Women's Bobsleigh team, Team Minichiello (www.teamminichiello.co.uk). The team were crowned 2009 World Champions at Lake Placid and are the first British women ever to lift a global bobsleigh title and the first GB World gold medallists in the sport since 1965.

GLM arrange the logistics for the teams sleds and equipment and have recently shipped the teams gear to Lake Placid which is where the team are training prior to their participation in the Whistler Cup in Vancouver Canada.

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Global Logistics Management have been awarded a multi year contract with Shell Brands International to manage the showcar programme for their sponsorship of Ferrari F1. As well as storing and shipping the showcars GLM will manage the installation at various events around the world and will also control the Pit Stop Challenge equipment.

This equipment allows Shells guests to take part in tyre changes and simulated refueling of the Ferrari showcars just like the real pit stops performed by the Ferrari F1 crew.

SBI currently have 14 Ferrari F1 showcars located around the world.

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Global Logistics have recently confirmed an agreement to manage the logistics for event merchandise with Experience Worldwide the London based event marketing agency. Part of the Radiate Group, Experience manage event marketing and sponsorship for global brands such as; SAP, Mercedes Benz, Coca-Cola, ING, Philips and Allianz.

Global's job will be to initially catalogue and store the thousands of pieces of event merchandise that Experience require for their SAP business and to then manage the pick pack and distribution to worldwide events. Global's online stock system will allow Experience staff to order from real time stock and to track their orders through to delivery around the globe.

Andy Berry, GLM's Managing Director said; "We were approached by SAP about their merchandise needs and were introduced to Alton Jarvis at Experience Worldwide their event agency. We are really pleased to be working with Alton and his team and look forward to helping them do what they do best by taking some of the logistics burden from them."

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This years Sinopec Grand Prix of China has surpassed the record volume of freight shipped by Global Logistics to a single event.

With product required for Mclaren Marketing, Kangaroo TV, Hilton and Santander, GLM staff were involved in planning and executing the logistics for the freight to Shanghai starting in August this year.

The freight consisted of 15 tonnes of air freight and 3 x 40' cargo containers of hospitality equipment, hand held TV's, F1 show cars, simulators and marketing displays and back drops. Both air and sea freight services were called into action with some items, not needed at other races, being despatched by sea in late August.

An added complication to the process was that most of the items GLM handled were used at the Japanese Grand Prix just a week before the China race. As the freight could not be taken from the Fuji circuit until late on the Sunday evening and was required for set up in China 2 days later some careful planning, scheduling and negotiation took place to ensure there was adequate space on the limited flights available from Tokyo to Shanghai Pudong.

All the freight got there on time and the GLM crew now have one more race to go to in Brazil before their next break.

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Silverstone 5th and 6th July.

GLM have helped set a new record for activity at the Santander Exhibition stand at this years British Grand Prix. 18,000 fans on Saturday, 19,500 fans on Saturday and 25,000 people on the Sunday visited the stand and checked out the attractions.

Santander, who sponsor Vodafone Mclaren Mercedes, had an interactive display in the merchandise village with marketing materials, Lewis Hamilton's race overalls, a replica Mercedes engine, a full scale F1 simulator and a pit stop tyre change challenge.

Global Logistics technicians were responsible for installing and managing the simulator and pit stop challenge with fans competing in tyre change races and able to experience a virtual race at Silverstone in a Mclaren F1 chassis.

With queues snaking around the stand most of the weekend the pit stop challenge proved to be the most popular activity and more than 1,000 people a day were able to safely enjoy the experience.

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Global Logistics Management, the specialist logistics provider to the marketing services industry, has recently installed a new supply chain software.
Boxtop is (www.boxtop.co.uk) a freight management software system that enables online tracking and reporting of time sensitive goods.

“As a lot of our business is bespoke projects rather than shipping boxes, we needed a management system that could reflect that and also be adaptable" said Mark Bonner, GLM's Operations Director.

He added, "We've done some parallel running and testing earlier this year and have been really impressed with how the new system has coped. Ours isn't a straight forward business and it's good to have something like this we can rely on."

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GLM are ready to go for this years F1 season with the first race in Melbourne only days away. Already more than 15 tonnes of marketing equipment is on its way by sea freight and more is expected to go via air freight shortly.

Mark Bonner, Operations Director, said; "This is a normal start to an F1 season as a lot of the marketing materials we ship are having new sponsors branding applied and a couple of things are late coming into us. We're ahead though on the bulk of the Paddock Club freight as we managed to get that shipped by sea in late January"

As well as the late arrival of some new items GLM have also to deal with the changing F1 schedule. With Brazil moving to the back of the calendar and more back to back races the pressure has increased on F1 teams and their logistics suppliers.

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