Boots is revamping its supply chain with a £70m automated warehouse built in Nottingham to supply the retail operation.
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Rising supply chain complexity is driving a need for sophisticated warehouse management systems that can deliver improved customer service and cost reduction – visibility up and down the chain is crucial. Are your systems up to it? By John Lamb
Recent high profile hiccoughs at one or two automated warehouses caused some to think again about how far they wanted to rely on technology. But the potentialbenefits are often too great to ignore and suppliers are increasingly busy.
Boots has announced that it is investing £1.9bn in its Boots The Chemists chain, including £250m in its supply chain and community pharmacies.
One of the key considerations is whether to adopt a goods-to-man or man-to-goods strategy – the former involving automated equipment like carousels and mini-load systems,
A number of companies are using Logistics Link to launch new products. VSc Solutions is launching Supply Chain Dynamic,
At a recent event in Stoke-on-Trent, Witron unveiled plans for the future as well as describing its
Recruiting, retaining and motivating staff is a long-standing problem for logistics operations, made more acute, in the UK at least, by the current relatively high levels of employment. What makes a company good to work for?
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.
With 9,000-plus products available – from office furniture and large laser printers to pencils and other small consumables – there are also a wide variety of demand levels, some products turning much faster than others.
