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.
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TNT Logistics [now renamed Ceva] has re-ground its floors at its Hams Hall distribution centre bringing it into line with the TR34 DM2 flatness standard.
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.
The market for mezzanine floors has been fuelled by a recent boom in property prices.
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.
Included in the Appendix C TR34 2003 specification is a truck simulator which has been developed to help gauge the correct flatness of floors. The simulator method has been used in the US for nearly thirty years and was also used in the UK in the early 19
