When the Boots Group decided to consolidate its retail supply chain and automate its central warehouses, part of its plan included adapting an existing 5,000 square metre section of warehouse space, to enable it to handle high volume, top-selling lines.
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Corporate clothing retailer Dimensions Clothing brought in CI Logistics to install a Quodeck garment hanging, racking and shelving system at its 275,000 sq ft distribution centre
Keystone Distribution UK has bumped up picking productivity at its new Hemel Hempstead depot by 15 per cent since bringing in a voice picking system from Zetes.
Ferdinand Gross, the Stuttgart-based fastener supplier, has improved the productivity and flexibility of its logistics operations and boosted customer service levels with a Multishuttle system from Dematic
Permaban Floor Solutions has completed a project for real estate company Giffels Management Russia on a 600,000 sq m distribution centre near Moscow.
Supermarket giant Tesco enlisted newly formed CoGri Malaysia to construct a special floor slab at its largest purpose built distribution centre in south east Asia.
The recession has left the Staffordshire area with a surplus of large warehouses and distribution hubs trying to find occupiers, according to the Annual Review by Instaffs, the inward investment agency.
Sainsbury’s rolled out an integrated transport management system across its national distribution network, with the result that store turnaround times were cut by 15 per cent, empty running improved by 12 per cent; and
Newsprinters, the newspaper printing subsidiary of News International, operates one of the largest printing centres in the world – the equivalent in size to 23 football pitches – and brought in MLOG Logistics to automate it.
Sports footwear retailer ASICS increased the control and visibility of its European supply chain, and boosted inventory management when it brought in a warehouse management system from Infor.
