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Born out of the old NHS Supplies organisation, NHS Logistics is tasked with supplying a huge range of products to hospitals around the country.

When Swiss-based transport company Kuehne & Nagel acquired ACR Logistics, its obvious aim was to expand its global network further into the logistically fashionable Eastern Europe and Asia.

Woolworths processes some 6.5 million customer transactions a week and runs five main distribution centres based at Swindon, Rugby, Bedford and two operations at Castleton near Rochdale.

To accommodate this variety of fast and slow-moving lines, a range of storage and order picking methods were co-ordinated by Knapp to form the integrated handling system at the facility.

Warehouse logistics company Witron has unveiled its new automated logistic system. The Ergonomic-Dynamic Picking System (E-DPS) which can pick 1,000 order lines per module, per hour.