Ilva, a Danish rival to Ikea, is opening a 60,385 sq m (650,000 sq ft) head office and warehouse depot to support its 20-store expansion in the UK.

More and more operations include an element of reverse logistics despite the fact that the Eurocrats are still struggling to reach agreement of the final date and shape of the directive of waste electrical goods.

With hauliers feeling the squeeze of rising taxes, increasing fuel costs and extra competition from foreign operators, IT companies are seeing more UK companies turning to technology, to help give them an edge. James Falkner looks at how the mobile IT mar

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Witron Logistik + Informatik is responsible for the installation of the logistics system which has a mechanised warehouse and picking system order picking machinery (OPM).

Consolidation among the software providers, coupled with new competitors coming into the market, means that competition is hotting up in the supply chain execution sector. Malory Davies looks at the impact of the changes.

Using a new breed of software solution, manufacturers and retailers can run their own bonded warehouse operations, instead of using third party agents, says Nick Love of RedPrairie.

Texas Instruments has released a new white paper entitled “Maximising RFID performance on consumer cases and pallets”.

PC Howard has selected Cybit’s Fleetstar-Online telematics solution, to manage its fleet of long-distance vehicles.

Serious Food Distribution is making a £50,000 investment in a 15-user Accord system from Business Computer Projects.