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High street retailer BhS has selected Empirica warehouse management software from Chess Logistics Technology to manage deliveries to overseas franchisees from its Atherstone distribution centre. The Empirica warehouse management software will be in

A faster, more efficient order picking routines are now being realised by Hi-Tec Sports UK following a major reorganisation of existing material flow procedures at its Southend warehousing and distribution complex.

Much of the demand has been generated by retailers eager to improve their supply chain networks both to meet their customers’ demands in the store, and to drive down costs. There are a number of reasons why companies need to improve their supply chains.

Road Freight Transport: In 1988, before the Masstricht Treaty, one of the first things the EU did was to harmonise transit documents for trucks and freight crossing internal EU frontiers, reducing the previous sheaf of paper to a single form, before aboli

Supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has invested billions of pounds in the past two or three years to create a state-of-the-art automated distribution network. The only problem is that the network cannot cope with Sainsbury’s supply chain. Why? Barcodes.

The appetite for investment product in Edinburgh and Glasgow has remained ‘insatiable’ despite a severe lack of supply, according to property agent Knight Frank’s latest annual M8 Corridor Report. Both the Edinburgh and Glasgow investment markets

Online wine retailer Virgin Wines, part of Richard Branson’s Virgin empire, has contracted Amtrak Express Parcels to deliver thousands of boxes of wine to homes across the country via a convenient home delivery service