Kimberly-Clark is responsible for some of the UK’s most famous brands – Andrex, Kleenex, Kotex and Huggies – but its distribution strategy must cater for products with a relatively low value per cubic metre but standard costs.
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Germany mail order company Klingel has installed an automated storage, tracking and sortation system from Dürkopp Fördertechnik. Based on Dürkopp’s Rolladapter with an integrated RFID device which accompanies every item from goods-in to dispatch
Book distributor Littlehampton Book Services is implementing voice technology from VoiteQ following a four week trial.
Elettric 80 has completed phase two of an end-of-line automation solution for J Garcia Carrión, the producer of the Don Simon range of products which includes fruit juices, wines, soft drinks and soups.
Once companies have made an initial change investment, how do they optimise their supply chains and continually drive for incremental improvements in people and processes? Sue Pryce shows the way.
Lawson teamed up with Skretting, supplier of feed for farmed fish, to deliver Trace Engine, a system which provides the company with instant electronic access to accurate upstream and downstream records of all raw materials
Manhattan Associates has introduced enhancements to Manhattan ILS: Integrated Logistics Solutions, built on Microsoft.NET, developed for companies that need supply chain systems that leverage the advantages of Microsoft’s.NET technology.
CG Flooring Systems (CGFS) has completed upgrading the 6000 sq m floor of an iron foundry to narrow-aisle warehouse standard suitable for racking up to 12 metres high, in less than six weeks.
Stryker, which specialises in orthopaedic and medical technology, chose SSI Schaefer to provide a better storage solution to house all medical parts within its distribution centre at Newbury.
Growth at Argos meant the business needed to develop its Bridgwater warehouse operation – one of a network of nine distribution centres Argos currently uses across the UK
