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WH Smith has reduced its shrinkage from £7m a year to £700,000 a year, by making changes to its IT infrastructure.
TNT Archive Services has almost doubled its storage capacity with the opening of a new £7m facility.
The new building took nearly a year to plan and erect and Total was consulting at the site over that time period. “The previous plant was at Dun Laoghaire, some seven miles south of Dublin,” says Ian O’Toole, project manager for Cadbury.
Homebase has bought six 13.6m step frame tri-axle box van lifting deck trailers and six 13.7m ratchet deck curtainsiders from Don-Bur.
Map&Guide has launched a new scheduling program that visualises orders, routes and vehicles on a map. The Map&Guide planner uses a geographic scheduler to plan realistic schedules that minimise time and distance while also allowing for driving breaks and
Circle has taken delivery of two step frame trailers for its Pallet-Track service operating on its Heathrow to Manchester airfreight shuttle service. The trailers will offer increased capacity.
RedPrairie has bought BlueCube Software. RedPrairie says the acquisition will provide a cornerstone for RedPrairie’s revolutionary E2e consumer-driven strategy.
TM Logistics has selected Tranman software from VT Software, to manage its fleet of 200 vehicles and 300 trailers. TM Logistics, part of Taylors of Martley, operates from 16 company and customer-owned sites nationally.
TDG has upgraded its warehouse management system to an AIX MARC, which it is running on an IBM ISeries I570 Processor, at its Pocklington site in Yorkshire.
