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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WH Smith has increased outbound productivity by 20 per cent at its Dunstable distribution centre, after installing a sortation system from SDI Greenstone.
With more than 20,000 product lines available in any one year and a programme of range development, this presents a major challenge to the warehouse and logistics team.
Logistics Link Live takes up residence at Coventry with exhibitions, seminars, and demonstrations of leading-edge materials handling and logistics solutions.
Research has shown that logistics is core to the economy – but try telling that to the planners. Liza Helps takes a closer look at the problem.
How do you gain competitive advantage with a supply chain delivering a vast array of 400,000 products to 1,850 branches? This was the complex challenge facing plumbing and building merchant, Wolseley UK. Their answer was to invest €150 million in a new
Handleman UK has opened a 275,000 sq ft automated distribution centre in Bolton, supplying Tesco shops throughout the UK with CDs, DVDs and games.
Automated storage and retrieval systems have had dramatic impacts in reducing picking times and increasing warehouse efficiency for particular operations. However, technology has restricted the application of automated systems.
The spate of takeover and mergers in the third party logistics market have created some huge organisations, emphasising the difference in approach to the market.
Retailers are shifting their focus away from out of town supercentres to more local stores in the middle of towns and shopping centres. And indications are that we may well be at the beginning of a ‘Convenience shopping’ revolution. But what are the imp
