Hughes Electrical has chosen Yodel for delivery of all of its online sales. Products range from small sized personal digital goods to large kitchen appliances
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Australian clothing retailer Best & Less has chosen Crisplant to supply an automatic cross docking sorting system for its new distribution centre in Sydney
The Olympics may be 16 months away, but already the logistics of keeping shelves filled and deliveries on schedule to satisfy the ten million expected visitors is starting to cause headaches.
DHL Global Forwarding has launched a retail division to provide a specialist service to global retailers
RedPrairie has finalised the acquisition of Escalate Retail, an all-channel commerce provider to specialty retailers, direct marketers and big-ticket retailers
Poor stock control led to 2.86 million missed sales at Christmas, according to a study by software house Aldata
With retailers experiencing a toxic mix of increasing commodity prices, rising fuel costs and a hike in VAT, the focus for most in 2011 will be on inventory reduction, cost containment and supply chain optimisation. By Nick Allen.
Thanks to changing technology, concepts that were once regarded as innovative, high risk, too complex or simply too expensive are rapidly becoming standard – and that applies both to IT and logistics services.
Eurozone retailers had a bumper month in January, according to the Markit Retail Purchasing Managers’ Index
Some 60 per cent of retailers now offer next-day delivery, while 25 per cent offer Saturday delivery, according to Snow Valley’s 2011 Online Delivery Report
