With warehouse automation, it is often thought that the bigger the investment, the better the return. But new developments mean that even smaller firms can take advantage, says Johanna Parsons
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Logistics Link North returns to Doncaster Racecourse in October, and this year sees the exciting addition of the Port to Shelf event.
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
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
SDI Group has developed an automated “Hanger Sorter” system, to recycle empty coat hangers used by the fashion sector, which it says can identify a hanger from more than 80 different profiles in less than 300 milliseconds, using new camera technology
Fashion retailers are increasingly looking to e-commerce for growth, and meeting the demands of this market requires new systems. Johanna Parsons reports
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
Fashion houses are used to pushing their designs to the cutting edge, but increasingly they are also pushing their supply chains to stay ahead of the field
Retailers are being challenged to come up with inventory management strategies that meet extreme new delivery demands. Automation is increasingly being seen as a solution
FedEx Express has officially opened its new S$97-million South Pacific Regional Hub in Singapore aiming to better support customers in the region and enhance their access to global markets
