Argos has implemented a Zetes voice directed put-away system within 130 stores to boost operational efficiency in its back of store warehouse areas.
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Dutch logistics provider Van Maanen has streamlined operations at its new hub at Barneveld, in the Netherlands, with a Kewill warehouse management system and RF-scanning technology.
Sainsbury’s is to buy 50 electric vans for its online grocery delivery service to add to its added to the existing fleet of 20.
Barloworld Logistics is rebranding its Barloworld Optimus division to Barloworld Supply Chain Software.
Zetes has acquired ImageID, which it has partnered with in the past, including the company’s assets, patents and intellectual property.
Iceland Frozen Foods has taken on 70 more Volvo FM artics to help it deliver goods to its 700 plus stores.
The second of the Innovation categories considered the wider, more strategic, supply chain innovations that have been deployed to best effect.
Innovation is always a difficult category for the judges – mainly because it’s difficult to determine what an innovative step is, exactly, as opposed to the application of known technology or methods.
The issue of forklift safety catapulted itself into the public domain recently when the BBC showed footage of a driver crashing into racking stacked full with vodka. Jessica Davies takes a crash course in truck safety.
Driven in the wrong conditions by the wrong person forklift trucks can injure and kill.
