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Breaking News

Morrisons cuts logistics costs
Morrisons last year cut its distribution costs by two per cent, and is now planning a new RDC at Bridgwater in the South West...

Time to test yourself against the best
The European Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2010 are now open for entries. The Awards are the gold standard for supply chain operations in Europe attracting entries from the world’s leading manufacturers, retailers and supply chain specialists. ...

Transport minister backs night-time deliveries
Transport minister Paul Clark has reinforced his view that quiet night-time deliveries will be able to tackle urban congestion, reduce carbon emissions and encourage more reliable deliveries without impacting on the lives of local residents at the FTA’s...

Norbert will maintain conservative outlook for 2010
Norbert Dentressangle achieved a recurring operating profit of 87.9 million euros in 2009, an 11 per cent increase on the previous year....

Features

High and mighty
There has been a surge of new development in the heavy duty materials handling market of late as manufacturers boost their offering in a bid to beat the recession. Lucy Tesseras invertigates...

Rise of the e-pick face
Picking strategies are changing radically, driven by the mounting pressures caused by the explosion of e-commerce. Jessica Davies reports. ...

Case Studies

Online retailer cuts delivery costs
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. ...

John Lewis overcomes storage challenge with Barloworld
John Lewis has upped its storage capacity since rolling out a VNA handling system from Barloworld, which enables its staff to work with walk-on racking at heights of over ten metres....

Viewpoint

Keep very quiet - and you might be allowed out at night
It's been very long slow process, but the government is coming round to the idea that there is a logic to making deliveries at nights and weekends. Malory Davies looks at proposals...

Think global, act local
Over the past few years the growth of globalisation has challenged logisticians to deal with the massive changes of moving from local to international supply chains. ...