Browsing: Automation

Buyers of fashion products are, almost by definition, fickle. But they exert a powerful influence on the supply chain – and the nature of their requirements is changing. Johanna Parsons reports

French fashion brand for men Celio has more than 1,000 shops in France as well as in Spain, Belgium and Italy and also an e-retail channel

International fashion brand Esprit has awarded TGW Logistics a contract, to install its new DropBox picking solution at its European distribution centre in Mönchengladbach, Germany

SDI Group has launched a new hanging pouch sortation system in the UK, the MonaLisa, following a successful roll-out in Germany

ASOS has installed a new dispatch sorter from Beumer at its UK global distribution hub, which distributes some 50 million garments worldwide every year.

With warehouse automation, it is often thought that the bigger the investment, the better the return. But new developments mean that even smaller firms can take advantage, says Johanna Parsons

Asda has awarded SDI Group a three-year £2 million contract to maintain all three of its George at Asda’s UK automated distribution centres, in Lymedale, Brackmills, and Washington