When radio frequency identification (RFID) first surfaced four years ago as the next big thing in supply chain automation, technologists hailed it as the answer to every logistics manager’s dream.
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Automated storage and retrieval systems have had dramatic impacts in reducing picking times and increasing warehouse efficiency for particular operations. However, technology has restricted the application of automated systems.
Express Operator City Link has introduced a Vocera communications systems at its Wednesbury hub.
The Port of Felixstowe reckons it has broken the UK record for handling containers from a single vessel.
Dutch IT companies Groeneveld IT and Cat Logic are merging to form a new company.
Worldwide Magazine Distribution has installed a pick to light system.
Sainsbury’s has taken delivery of forty 3.5 tonne Mercedes reefers and has another fifty on order.
RedPrairie has agreed to buy GEOCOMtms, which designs fleet management software, for an undisclosed sum.
Marks & Spencer’s food depot in Bristol is to have an RFID-based sortation system from Dematic.
Dairy Crest is to use Paragon’s single depot routeing and scheduling software for the daily planning of store deliveries from four of its dairies.
