Book distributor NBN International has selected Solarsoft’s warehouse management system in a bid to improve the accuracy of incoming and outgoing deliveries, while reducing errors and increasing productivity.
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Picking strategies are changing radically, driven by the mounting pressures caused by the explosion of e-commerce. Jessica Davies reports.
A combination of network consolidation and warehouse automation has resulted in an improved supply chain for global sportswear brand adidas.
Morrisons supermarkets has signed a contract with Zetes to provide a wireless IT infrastructure for five of its manufacturing facilities in Yorkshire, Northampton and Cheshire.
Co-operative Food Retail Logistics brought in EnerSys to redesign its MHE battery charging area and install a battery management system, at its distribution centre at Birtley in County Durham
The time for traditional racking methods may be over as companies grapple with changes spurred on by the growing trend towards consolidation. Jessica Davies reports on some of the latest cases.
Chocolate maker Cadbury, has upgraded its Australian national distribution centre in Melbourne, resulting in a 20 per cent productivity improvement to the automatic storage and retrieval crane system in its warehouse.
Electronics retailer Elgiganten has rolled out an automated pick and pack system at its central warehouse in Jönköbing, Sweden, to help it deal with its surging e-retail business.
The issue of forklift safety catapulted itself into the public domain recently when the BBC showed footage of a driver crashing into racking stacked full with vodka. Jessica Davies takes a crash course in truck safety.
When the Boots Group decided to consolidate its retail supply chain and automate its central warehouses, part of its plan included adapting an existing 5,000 square metre section of warehouse space, to enable it to handle high volume, top-selling lines.
