The Works, which sells books, crafts and gifts, has bought Workforce Management from RedPrairie to optimise labour productivity at its Sutton Coldfield distribution centre.
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DHL has taken on the challenge of chaperoning the Special Olymic flame as it journeys around the world. Chris Muntwyler describes some of the challenges involved.
Great Bear Distribution has pre-let a 473,689 sq ft warehouse in Desborough from Hampton Brook Developments and CJC.
Opus Land has started work on the refurbishment of the 360,000 sq ft former MFI factory site on Teesside.
Equipment and services supplier, Daher has opened an operations centre in Bristol.
British Airways World Cargo has renewed the wet-lease of its three Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft for an additional five years from Global Supply Systems, in a deal with total operating costs of more than £500m.
Intellident has completed its 400th live installation of RFID.
Integration is the name of the game for fleet management software. Enabling systems to talk to each other is not only giving manager visibility of distribution operations – it is enabling them to make changes in real time. Malory Davies reports.
Land prices for prime logistics development have shot up value over the last year, according to King Sturge, causing concern that rents will have to increase as well.
A shortage of space for medium sized operations in Avonmouth has meant that two out of the three units to be speculatively developed by developer St Modwen at its Access 18 scheme have already been let.
