With more than 20,000 product lines available in any one year and a programme of range development, this presents a major challenge to the warehouse and logistics team.
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Alliance Flooring Distribution in Kidderminster was subsequently acquired in April 2005 taking the combined stock capacity of both companies’ to nearly a million square metres of carpet.
Automotive component manufacturer Webasto Roof Systems has increased storage density and picking efficiency with better stock rotation in the warehouse at its factory in Birmingham.
Last year, Argos installed Flowstore’s DuraFlow modular multi-wheel roller track system at its Lutterworth warehouse.
The hi-tech industry is in a state of flux: gone are the days when companies managed their own R & D, production and marketing. Today, many outsource some of these tasks with an emphasis on mass customisation and bespoke promotional initiatives. This pres
Direct Table Foods has installed £20m of pallet racking from Link 51, at its bacon processing factory in Bury St Edmunds.
The complexities of managing and optimising the flow of materials, cash and information across the supply chain need to be mastered if a competitive position is to be defended. Nowhere is Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) more critical than in the CPG
To achieve this involved a combination of very narrow aisle racking, high density picking bins and specially adapted man-up order picking trucks from Atlet.
Unipart Technology Logistics started ten years ago with a contract from computer company Hewlett-Packard to support engineers in the UK with a delivery service. Maurice Daw, managing director of the company, looks at the key trends affecting high technolo
The group operates under four principal brands; French Connection (FCUK), designer label Nicole Farhi, mail-order based TOAST and Great Plains.
