Global supply chains across the retail, automotive, financial services, manufacturing and high-tech markets are dogged with process and cost inefficiencies, according to a survey of 400 organisations across the UK, France, Germany and the US.
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Previously, slower-moving lines were picked from static shelving, with the very slow-moving lines being located further away than other slightly faster lines, which meant staff had to walk further to collect slower lines, making them expensive to pick.
Clothing manufacturer Red Inc is using Prolog Logistics to handle the warehousing and distribution of its three key clothing brands.
The Haven Gateway Partnership (HGP) is backing a major petition launched in support of proposals to build a new container terminal at Bathside Bay in Harwich.
Technological advances in communications and computing have revolutionised much of the service industry with the advent of Internet-based commerce enhancing this further. Why are logistics operations being so cautious to adopt technology?
NAI Fuller Peiser and the FTA have carried out research into the effect of the Road Transport Directive on businesses nationwide. The latest findings highlight significant impact on the industrial and logistics sector in the South-east.
Commercial property specialist Nolan Redshaw has secured a mass of lettings at the Horwich Locomotive Industrial Estate, a 2,592sq m site which will offer a range of industrial units and over five acres of open storage land.
Gazeley’s first eco-efficient EcoTemplate warehouse – G Park Bedford – is now complete. The 41,344sq m distribution facility incorporates 11 environmentally beneficial initiatives suggested in Gazeley’s two-year, £660,000 EcoTemplate research completed la
Chess Logistics’ latest Empirica Warehouse Management system offers advanced new features and functional improvements to enhance support for processes including real-time tasking, despatch load management and processing. Key additions to the product’s T
McDonald’s UK distributor Golden West Foods have put their first ever Volvos – 30 new I-Shift equipped Volvo FM12 tractor units – into service at its Basingstoke depot.
