Omni-channel fashion logistics operations are looking for easy to install, modular and scalable infrastructure in order to cope with multiple demand peaks and the easing of lockdown restrictions, according to Interroll.
Some 43% of supply chain practitioners are concerned about their supplier’s ability to fulfil orders, and 40% are concerned about their suppliers’ business health.
The UK logistics market has recorded the highest quarterly take-up figures on record for Q2 2020, achieving total take-up of 12.78 million sq ft compared to 7.83 million sq ft in Q2 2019, according to the latest data from global real estate advisor, CBRE.
The UK manufacturing sector showed signs of stabilising in June, following the steep slump caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
DSV plans to invest DKK 2 billion (£243 million) on a 7.5 million sq ft logistics centre in Denmark. as it consolidates activities from its Air & Sea, Road and Solutions divisions.
Sainsbury’s has seen its business change “fundamentally” during lockdown, with digital sales more than doubling in recent weeks.
Matt Gregory has succeeded Isabel McCabe as managing director of Voiteq UK, from 1 July 2020.
DHL Aviation has chosen Descartes’ Global Air Messaging Gateway to standardise electronic messaging with its customers.
GreyOrange is to supply a fleet of modular sortation robots to UK-based e-commerce specialist Rex Brown.
An ‘online giant’ has snapped up a 35,200 sq ft warehouse Network Spaces’s Element warehouse scheme at Alchemy Business Park in Knowsley.
