Online retailer Tackle Discounts has upped its sales by 30 – 40 per cent and cut delivery costs by 15 per cent, since going live with a delivery management system from MetaPack.
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German retailer myToys.de plans to open a new distribution centre at Langenselbold in June which will use an automated sortation systems to give a throughput of 11,000 items an hour.
Retailer Delhaize Belgium is to implement an integrated supply chain ERP platform designed to enable it to standardise its supply chain transactions, increasing efficiency and productivity.
Online retail is offering the recession-hit express market a lifeline, according to analyst Datamonitor.
Complexity is the greatest challenge facing retailers competing for consumer spend in a burgeoning multi-channel environment. But for those that can master it, opportunities abound. By Nick Allen.
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Retailers are being invited to take part in trials of a noise mitigation scheme that would allow lorries to make urban deliveries at night and weekends when they are normally banned.
French sports retailer Decathlon has awarded SDI Group a contract to install two additional sorting systems, with a commitment for a third in the first half of 2010 in a contract worth £3 million.
Faith Shoes has chosen MetaPack to manage its online delivery after finding that its manual consignment creation at the pack bench was becoming too cumbersome to manage and it wanted to improve its ability to print delivery labels.
Online retailers were still dispatching goods on Christmas Eve despite cut off dates for Christmas day having passed, according to MetaPack’s eCommerce 100 tracker.
