Three prominent firms have recently overhauled their planning systems and are reaping the benefits. IKEA has improved forecast accuracy by between 25 and 80 per cent by using a single database and plan. By John Lamb
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Winning the Olympics will help regenerate large chunks of east London but will it blight warehouse development around the eastern side of the M25?
Voice technology has enabled food distributor, Brakes, to increase accuracy and speed of picking operations across its sixteen sites. The technology could soon be used for goods inwards, put-away, replenishment and loading. By Greg Tanner
Control Towers provide air traffic personnel with complete visibility of all the flights they are supervising. A new breed of Logistics Control Tower is now providing the same help to logistics service providers. By Joakim Jansch
Finnish pharmaceutical distributor Oriola is reaping the benefits of a new IT system which offers greater management of sell-by dates and batch control.
Computacenter is a familiar name in the ESCE Awards, their UK operation having reached the finals in previous years. This time, however, it was the company’s German Logistics and Service Centre at Kerpen that was under the microscope.
One such company benefiting from Exel’s innovative supply chain thinking is Selfridges, the leading UK department store retailer.
Temperature-controlled Culina Logistics has sponsored a spoof supply chain website designed to ‘ease the stress of today’s logistics and supply chain industry’.
The electronics and high tech sector has fully embraced online selling – the distinction between manufacturing and retailing is now blurred. But is this the only way forward?
Blyth, which designs and markets home decorative and fragranced products, has chosen SAS and Procuri to provide a new spend management system that will deliver critical visibility into trends within the company’s Global Sourcing Group. The system will b
