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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.

The TGW Logistics Group has acquired Ecolog, the supplier of automated logistics systems based at Wels in Austria.

Legislation on how to implement green measures, is not clear enough and the result is confusion and misunderstanding, according to a sustainability survey by office and refurbishment fit out specialists Overbury.

The iForce team at the Bromford Gate site in Birmingham has won Team of the Year Award at this year’s UK Warehouse Association Awards.

John Craven of Whitecroft Lighting says that traditionally warehouses used HID luminaires like the Whitecroft Harrier which delivers high efficiency in the region of 80 per cent.

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

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.

Eight ways to improve the environmental performance of your warehouse:

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.