Browsing: Corporate Insight

The growth of online shopping is causing a rethink of logistics strategies in the retail sector. And our panel of leading retailers and logistics providers had some very clear views on what needs to happen in our round table sponsored by SEGRO

Food retailer, Morrisons, is making use of Linde’s Forklift Hire in its nationwide distribution and retail businesses

Beaver 84, the scaffolding supplier, has recently upgraded the lift trucks operating at the majority of its facilities with diesel-powered DFG 430 models from Jungheinrich’s ic-engine counterbalance truck range

Marks and Spencer have taken on ediTRACK’s business process tracking system to gain visibility and control of its directly sourced merchandise

French fashion brand for men Celio has more than 1,000 shops in France as well as in Spain, Belgium and Italy and also an e-retail channel

Home shopping channel QVC selected mobile solutions company Peak-Ryzex to overhaul the auto ID kit at its Knowsley distribution centre on Merseyside, which picks and despatches over 15 million units a year

Chilled distribution specialist NFT wanted to improve the processes used to handle and manage proof of delivery notes and speed up the identification and resolution of discrepancies

Direct Wines, the online wine retailer, has deployed cloud-based planning, promotion, forecasting and fulfilment software from Predictix, to improve alignment between marketing, planning, merchandising and supply chain operations

Linde Material Handling, BMW and Munich Technical University are being funded by the German Ministry of Transport to run field tests of fuel cell industrial trucks BMW’s Leipzig plant