Browsing: Supply Chain

Reach trucks have lead the way in conventional warehouse applications, but as warehousing operations become more sophisticated, top-end machines and niche products are using new technology to increase efficiency. Nick Allen

Kiabi, the French value-clothing retailer, has rolled out Manhattan’s Warehouse Management for Open Systems across its distribution centres at Mâcon, Villeneuve d’Ascq, Dourges and Madrid in Spain.

Spending on logistics services across the automotive, consumer, pharmaceutical, retail and technology industries is set to increase by 30 billion euros over the next five years as the size of outsourced logistics market grows by 33 per cent, according to

Electrical retailer Maplin Electronics has taken a 196,000 sq ft warehouse at St Paul’s Developments’ Brookfields Park in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

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

Supply chain technology has come a long way since the early days of EDI, warehouse management technology and demand forecasting. Today, it is fast becoming a totally joined-up message thanks to the latest IT. Soon systems will be able to call on a raft of