Somerset-based Clark Shoes can hold up to three million pairs of shoes in its UK Distribution Centre (DC) in Street. It handles around 80,000 pairs of shoes, both in and out of the warehouse daily, with stock arriving from manufacturing plants in Europe,

Where once end-of-life electrical products were disposed of through household waste and council amenity sites, from August 2004, they will go back through another channel: via retailers and producers.

Controlling and maintaining accurate records about the 12,000 items stored in its warehouse was a major requirement when IT services company Anlisco invested in Scala Business Solution’s iScala ERP solution, a system enabling SMEs to automate and manage t

The sixth generation of Cirrus Logistics’ warehouse design and simulation tool, CLASS, is now available. CLASS is already used in 200-plus locations worldwide by customers that include eight out of the ten leading third-party logistics providers as well

Since its management buy out in 1999, Adams Childrenswear has been experiencing dynamic growth and success. Yet the main distribution centre is 14 years old and had previously been a labour intensive operation that would not meet future plans.

Sister companies New Wave Logistics (NWL) and UCI Logistics have been re-branded as NYK Logistics as part of their parent NYK Group’s global marketing strategy. NWL is now NYK Logistics (UK) Consumer & Retail while UCI is NYK Logistics (UK) Manufacturing.

Problems caused by poor forklift driver training and by companies not properly assessing drivers’ skills are driving down productivity, increasing costs and risking lives, warns Toyota Industrial Equipment UK (TIE).

English, Welsh and Scottish Railway (EWS) has introduced a new rail feeder service to link the Port of Tyne into its current Intermodal Express service running between Tees Dock and Mossend in central Scotland.

Linde Material Handling (UK) now offers a single, dedicated point of customer contact which has led to improved efficiency as well as a “dramatic increase in uptime”.

The Cranfield School of Management Business is urging leaders to heed warnings that supply chains are at greater risk to massive disruption than ever before.