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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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.
Excel Automation has completed all four phases of a contract to upgrade the Chivas Brothers’ palletisation and automatic dispatch facility in Dumbarton.
Czech automotive packaging specialist Omnipack is using ARPRO expanded polypropylene to produce up to 15,000 dunnage trays a year for the country’s automotive industry.
Smurfit Kappa developed the pack, which uses a cartridge body that can be cut away and recycled with domestic collections and a nozzle and plunger made from biodegradable plastics.
A combination of network consolidation and warehouse automation has resulted in an improved supply chain for global sportswear brand adidas.
Zetes rolled out a combined voice and Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) system for the Co-op in Sweden, which the company says has pushed up productivity by some 70-80 per cent.
Motorola has released the WT1090 – a voice-only wearable terminal designed for voice picking and other distribution applications.
PJH Group, which distributes bathrooms, kitchens and appliances to the home improvement market, has placed a £150,000 order with Solarsoft Business Systems for new voice picking software and Psion Teklogix WORKABOUT PRO units.
International cheese and nutritional ingredients group, Glanbia, has seen picking accuracy levels shoot up to 100 per cent, since installing a voice-directed order picking system at two warehouses and two manufacturing plants in Ireland.
