Skip to content
Articles
Often overlooked, a factory’s hidden supply chain plays a critical role in productivity. Mark Gray explores how intralogistics and material flow influence throughput, OEE and labour efficiency, and why optimising the movement of materials is becoming a key competitive advantage for manufacturers.

AMRs can help smooth factory intralogistics

Often overlooked, a factory’s hidden supply chain plays a critical role in productivity. Mark Gray explores how intralogistics and material flow influence throughput, OEE and labour efficiency, and why optimising the movement of materials is becoming a key competitive advantage for manufacturers.

Read more

A refurbished forklift truck can offer exceptional value for money, but choosing the right one is essential to ensure you're making a sound investment. Toyota Material Handling offers five top tips.

Not all refurbished trucks are equal

A refurbished forklift truck can offer exceptional value for money, but choosing the right one is essential to ensure you’re making a sound investment. Toyota Material Handling offers five top tips.

Read more

Best known as a Japan logistics specialist, NX has been making strides well beyond this remit, as Steve Williams, managing director UK & Ireland at NX explained to Logistics Matters editor Simon Duddy at Multimodal.

Building on a strong base

Best known as a Japan logistics specialist, NX has been making strides well beyond this remit, as Steve Williams, managing director UK & Ireland at NX explained to Logistics Matters editor Simon Duddy at Multimodal.

Read more

Shed Of The Month July 2026: Beast in the east

Right now, warehouses over 500,000 ft2 are hot property nationwide but are increasingly in short supply – if available at all on a regional basis. DTRE research reports that there were just 39 buildings over 300,000 ft2 at the end of May – the lowest supply level since December 2024. And the larger the building, the scarcer the beast with Knight Frank noting there are probably only eight or nine properties immediately available over 400,000 ft2. One such property is Ultrabox – a bit of a beast on the outskirts of East London…

Read more

The conversation around the future warehouse typically centres on automation, humanoid robotics, labour shortages and e-commerce growth. Increasingly, however, there is another factor shaping performance, heat. In the UK, this is not about Mediterranean-style extremes, but something more subtle and arguably more dangerous: a logistics network built for a temperate climate that is now regularly operating outside its design envelope. Tristan Holiday comments.

Turning up the heat: why UK warehouses are not built for a 30 deg C reality

The conversation around the future warehouse typically centres on automation, humanoid robotics, labour shortages and e-commerce growth. Increasingly, however, there is another factor shaping performance, heat. In the UK, this is not about Mediterranean-style extremes, but something more subtle and arguably more dangerous: a logistics network built for a temperate climate that is now regularly operating outside its design envelope. Tristan Holiday comments.

Read more

Retail logistics leader Simon Ratcliffe says AI may drive supply chain and logistics leaders mad for a while… but whether it will be worth it in the end is largely down to preparation.

AI will prompt the next paradigm shift

Retail logistics leader Simon Ratcliffe says AI may drive supply chain and logistics leaders mad for a while… but whether it will be worth it in the end is largely down to preparation.

Read more

The E2.2-3.5XN2, a 2,000 - 3,000kg capacity cushion tyre, electric lift truck series builds upon the success of the established XN models to provide high performance, minimal downtime, and reduced total cost of operation in tough indoor applications.

Hyster launches XN2 electric forklift

The E2.2-3.5XN2, a 2,000 – 3,000kg capacity cushion tyre, electric lift truck series builds upon the success of the established XN models to provide high performance, minimal downtime, and reduced total cost of operation in tough indoor applications.

Read more

Weekly household food waste collections are now rolling out under Simpler Recycling, and by March 2027 even the smallest firms will have to separate their food waste from general rubbish. Amit Sandhu of Paragon Logistics argues the rules target the caddy, when most avoidable waste is decided far earlier, in the temperature-controlled links that set what reaches the shelf fit to sell.

New food waste rules aim at the bin but it starts in the cold chain

Weekly household food waste collections are now rolling out under Simpler Recycling, and by March 2027 even the smallest firms will have to separate their food waste from general rubbish. Amit Sandhu of Paragon Logistics argues the rules target the caddy, when most avoidable waste is decided far earlier, in the temperature-controlled links that set what reaches the shelf fit to sell.

Read more

Artificial intelligence is moving from experiment to operational architecture in logistics, according to Nizar Trigui, chief technology officer at GXO Logistics.

GXO sets out AI transformation agenda

Artificial intelligence is moving from experiment to operational architecture in logistics, Nizar Trigui, chief technology officer at GXO Logistics explains to Logistics Matters editor Simon Duddy.

Read more

Filter posts

Published By

Western Business Media,
Dorset House, 64 High Street,
East Grinstead, RH19 3DE

01342 314 300
[email protected]

Contact us

Simon Duddy - Editor
01342 333 711
[email protected]

Liza Helps - Property Editor
07540 624 360
[email protected]

Louise Carter - Editorial Support
01342 333 735
[email protected]

Neill Wightman - Sales Manager
07818 574 304
[email protected]

Sharon Miller - Production
01342 333 741
[email protected]

Logistics Matters