With land values continuing to rise and labour becoming more expensive and harder to find, will 2007 herald a golden age for warehouse automation? James Falkner reports.
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RedPrairie has bought GEOCOMtms, which designs fleet management software, for an undisclosed sum.
Bertram Books, a UK book wholesaler is using a void fill cushion from Easypack on a conveyor sorting system.
Dutch IT companies Groeneveld IT and Cat Logic are merging to form a new company.
WH Smith has increased outbound productivity by 20 per cent at its Dunstable distribution centre, after installing a sortation system from SDI Greenstone.
Vianetic has launched VWMS, a warehouse management system designed to suit any size of logistics operation.
The race to win the home shopping, e-fulfilment market is on, according to Steve Richmond, general manager for the systems and projects division of Jungheinrich.
Gefco is rolling out e-Fleet – a web portal used to manage and monitor vehicle fleets from when they first go on the road to when they are sold on the used vehicle market.
Environmental concerns are increasingly influencing the logistics decision-making process – particularly among public-facing businesses such as retailing. How is forklift truck technology developing to meet the challenge?
Agility Systems has won a contract to supply software to the UK offices of Henry Schein, a distributor of healthcare products and services to office-based practitioners in Europe and North America.
