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The Works, which sells books, crafts and gifts, has bought Workforce Management from RedPrairie to optimise labour productivity at its Sutton Coldfield distribution centre.

Roger Williams, chief executive of the United Kingdom Warehousing Association, believes the HSE has sought to address a problem that doesn’t actually exist with its PM28 guidance note for working at height.

Apprise Consulting and Redditch-based software house TWS, have developed a software package to improve the accuracy of stock counting.

Integration is the name of the game for fleet management software. Enabling systems to talk to each other is not only giving manager visibility of distribution operations – it is enabling them to make changes in real time. Malory Davies reports.

Goldstar Transport installed the Truckcom fleet & job management system for its fleet following a trial.

Wincanton, the leading European logistics supply chain management company, has worked with Civica over a number of years to develop an integrated system for the management and control of the Woolworths fleet of tractor and trailor units.

As the industry starts to gear up for Christmas, companies are having to consider if they have the capacity to meet the demand peaks. If not, a temporary warehouse could be the answer.

NetDespatch has produced a “virtual warehouse” for Simply Sleep, the memory foam mattress supplier, by using web technology to eliminate the need for stock holding on site.

Wind is the world’s fastest growing energy source and in the UK we have about 40 per cent of Europe’s wind resource.