psion Teklogix (UK) has launched the 8580 and 8590 vehicle-mounted computers, designed for optimum performance in harsh environments and to provide forklift operators with real-time access to warehouse management tools, ensuring rapid data capture.
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Innovate Logistics has spent £2 million overhauling its warehouse management system.
Road Angel is supplying Masternaut with its Nav 9000 Professional in-cab unit in a deal worth around £5m.
Unilever is running a trial of Electronic Product Code Information Service to collect and access information from within its logistics environment and from trading partners in the supply chain.
Despite Britain’s 24 million online shoppers spending record amounts on goods in the run-up to Christmas, it seems a significant number of retailers endured a difficult festive season.
Chocolate retailer Thorntons has implemented the Aldata Gold retail management software. Thorntons has some 350 shops and 200 franchises.
Monkhill gets sweet Monkhill Confectionery, a division of Cadbury Trebor Bassett, is installing Lawson Software’s Quickstep Food and Beverage software across its four sites in Pontefract, York, Leeds and Cleckheaton.
RedPrairie is taking over StorePerform Technologies.
UPM Raflatac, an RFID tag and inlay manufacturer, has been selected by retail giant Metro Group to supply its Rafsec G2 ShortDipole RFID inlays for a pilot scheme that will see products tracked along the supply chain from China to Germany.
The warehouse management system is at the core of the logistics operation and the basic functionality is well defined but there are still areas of development.
