Retail is changing with consumers increasingly taking up online options for home delivery and click and collect. Johanna Parsons finds that retailers are increasingly looking to automation to pave the way to serving these different channels
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The Co-op Group is one of the leading grocery retailers in Switzerland, with an annual revenue of some 27.8 billion Swiss Francs. Its retail stock comprises about 70,000 items across many categories
The meteoric growth of omni-channel is driving major changes in retail logistics operations. Rosy Hill reports from the recent Logistics Manager Summit on how companies are responding
Live demonstrations make Logistics Link Live special – and it’s time to see the latest equipment in action at the National Exhibition Centre
The pressure is on storage and retrieval systems to provide the speed and accuracy to meet the demands of increasingly complex and diverse logistics systems
Sandown Park will be the place to be as leading suppliers show off the latest in IT systems and materials handling equipment at the Logistics Link South exhibition
German food retailer REWE has chosen Witron to design and supply the storage and handling systems for its giant national distribution centre for slow moving goods at Neu Isenburg near Frankfurt.
It’s all a matter of choice, of course, but ensuring that you have the right picking system for your particular product needs careful thought. Malory Davies examines some of the issues.
The Co-operative Pharmacy now has the capacity to fulfil 160,000 order lines in one shift, following a £16m investment in a new, automated national distribution centre at Meir Park in Stoke-on-Trent, designed and installed by Knapp.
As the dark clouds begin to part companies are
redoubling their efforts to come back fighting fitter and
stronger – is now the time to invest in warehouse
automation? Lucy Tesseras investigates
