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Smart Logistics in the Netherlands has signed a contract with Four Soft Netherlands to automate its freight forwarding operations by implementing its 4S eTrans SME at multiple locations.

Independent brewery Adnams set up its own bonded warehouse, cut costs and improved its inventory management – all off the back of a Duty and Warehouse Management system from RedPrairie.

The graphs are all starting to turn up but is it tempting fate to take that automation project off the back-burner? With big announcements from Tesco and Procter & Gamble, there seems to be renewed enthusiasm. Malory Davies reports.

Britvic’s 275,000 sq ft national hub at Lutterworth was a showcase for automation technology when it opened but time has moved on and operator Wincanton has been working hard to ensure the systems are up to date.

Dematic is to supply a mechanised logistics system for Tesco’s new 910,000 sq ft distribution centre at Teesport, Middlesbrough. The system, which is scheduled for completion in 2010, will provide the retailer with a pallet storage solution, incorporating

Delta Software, provider of DeltaWMS, has acquired the key assets of PLW Associates Limited, in particular the DWMS AS/400 warehouse management system and associated contracts.