Automotive aftermarket service specialist Lex Auto Logistics’ new warehouse management system (WMS) installed at its 50,000sq m distribution centre in Chorley, Lancashire, has enabled it to improve the service provided to nearly 3,000 UK and export cust
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The public sector is the supply chain’s final frontier but managers are beginning to face up to the task of reform. The stakes are high, but so are the possible gains.
eBECS, a Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) partner, has developed a series of Lean Manufacturing modules to complement and enhance the functionality of MBS’ Axapta toolset. Lean Manufacturing is the ability to establish manufacturing cells where downst
In a stable, predictable and benign environment that might well be so, but we live in uncertain times. For many organisations their trading environment spans continents, cultures, and a multitude of political, economic and regulatory unknowns.
Yantra Corporation, the synchronised fulfilment management software solutions specialist, has supplied Royal Mail with its Yantra 5x software applications to improve the operating efficiency of its internal distribution operations. Royal Mail is impleme
New research carried out by e.centre, the supply chain efficiency association, shows that despite the hype, 85% of UK companies have no plans to introduce radio frequency identification (RFID) technology within their organisations.
The RTITB has introduced a new system of licensing for forklift truck operators and other mechanical handling equipment drivers. Called the National Operator Registration Scheme (NORS), the new scheme is designed to cover a multitude of areas including:
ABC SPAX, which manufactures a wide range of precision screws, has adopted using plastic crates from Allibert Buckhorn at its UK distribution centre located in Cannock, Staffordshire.
As a volume distributor, Premier Farnell has to be highly customer-responsive: it combines traditional distribution skills with technologically advanced, proactive marketing techniques.
Supply chain execution (SCE) software supplier AquiTec and Belgravium, which makes rugged mobile communications devices, have joined forces to offer retail and wholesale customers a complete radio frequency (RF) communications solution.
