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Nisa -Today’s, one of the UK’s largest independent buying consortium, has installed AquiTec’s SCM/400 warehouse management software at its 13,950sq m temperature-controlled distribution centre for chilled and frozen products in Stoke-on-Trent.

Specialist brick forks, a speed controller and on-board weighing system are just three features of the new Builders’ Merchants Special by Toyota Industrial Equipment.

CHEP, which offers pallet and container pooling services, has implemented RedPrairie’s RFID-enabled DLx Warehouse in its Orlando, Florida Innovation Center.

No one knows as much about handling fish as the good folk of Humberside – an area famous for the trawlers that discharge their catches from the cold North Sea.

Procter & Gamble is trialling in the London area GPRS in the cabs so that it knows exactly the trucks are.

With 9,000-plus products available – from office furniture and large laser printers to pencils and other small consumables – there are also a wide variety of demand levels, some products turning much faster than others.

Darlington-based Agility Systems has formed a strategic alliance partnership with Eastern Data Group, one of the UK and Ireland’s top suppliers of mobile solutions for home and direct store delivery of FMCG product.

Why do companies seek to automate their warehouse facilities? It takes a large initial investment and nerves stronger than industrial shelving to alter a proven, if manual system.