A significant investment into a sophisticated automated national distribution centre for Unilever UK Foods has upped the productivity stakes for the company’s customer service offering. Now both customers and margins can be well served. By Nick Allen
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Three prominent firms have recently overhauled their planning systems and are reaping the benefits. IKEA has improved forecast accuracy by between 25 and 80 per cent by using a single database and plan. By John Lamb
NAI Fuller Peiser’s planning application for Hutchison Ports to extend the Port of Felixstowe has received permission from the Secretary of State.
Rising supply chain complexity is driving a need for sophisticated warehouse management systems that can deliver improved customer service and cost reduction – visibility up and down the chain is crucial. Are your systems up to it? By John Lamb
Voice technology has enabled food distributor, Brakes, to increase accuracy and speed of picking operations across its sixteen sites. The technology could soon be used for goods inwards, put-away, replenishment and loading. By Greg Tanner
Recent high profile hiccoughs at one or two automated warehouses caused some to think again about how far they wanted to rely on technology. But the potentialbenefits are often too great to ignore and suppliers are increasingly busy.
The port dominates the UK market for importing fresh produce, with almost one million tonnes of fruit arriving at Sheerness every year.
Hi-Store has been involved in designing and installing industrial ‘back-of-house’ floors for many years, meeting the needs of a rapidly expanding market.
Central to European logistics activity, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg – the ‘Benelux’ region – is set to benefit from the trend to outsource from China. Within easy reach of Europe’s prosperous consumer population demand for distribution facilit
Control Towers provide air traffic personnel with complete visibility of all the flights they are supervising. A new breed of Logistics Control Tower is now providing the same help to logistics service providers. By Joakim Jansch
