Wyko Industrial Services and Chess Logistics Technology have worked together to create an order picking system that has integrated an automated storage and retrieval system, laser-highlighted picking equipment and RF terminals with Chess’s Empirica WMS. T
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Pharmaceutical company Teva UK Limited has selected RedPrairie’s Warehouse Management and Workforce Management systems to help increase efficiency and improve customer service at its newly built logistics centre.
European Conveyor Systems has fitted a new automated conveyor system, capable of handling up to 30 cartons a minute, for wine and spirits wholesaler Waverley TBS after the one it installed in 2000 was damaged by an explosion.
UPS has opened a new international hub in Shanghai in a bid to improve access to China and speed up the movement of express packages and heavy freight around the world.
British Airways World Cargo has launched a Boeing 767-200 weekly freighter service between Bogota, Columbia and Bridgetown, Barbados.
Parcelforce Worldwide has reduced manual handling at its Glasgow warehouse with a Sovex conveyor system, which helps it process more than three million parcels each year. The 45,000 sq ft Glasgow site accepts parcels from the company’s larger Coventry hub
FKI Logistex, the specialist in automated material handling systems, has been awarded a contract as the supplier and project integrator of a new sortation/ distribution system for Posten Norge’s new Østlandsterminalen mail centre near Oslo, Norway.
UPS is now fully operational at its Tamworth ground hub, the company’s largest facility in the UK and second largest in Europe after the air hub in Cologne.
An automated conveyor system capable of handling up to 30 cartons a minute with minimal manual handling has been completed for wines and spirits wholesaler Waverley TBS by European Conveyor Systems.
There can be few areas of a logistics operation that require such keen judgement as picking operations. Tailoring the right systems to the operations is practically a science in its own right. Malory Davies reports on the latest thinking.
