articleLast Mile battlefield hots up at The Delivery Conference
The Last Mile has long been a difficult and very costly part of the logistics process. But the latest news from The Delivery Conference suggests this could be about to change.
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articleUnder pressure
As consumers have more and more choice about how they buy, Rob Carle, leading e-commerce specialist at DS Smith UK Packaging, explores how the packaging and storage industries are collaborating to meet changing needs.
articleClick & Collect refined through lockers
The retailers who are set to thrive in the future will be the ones who are best able to refine their supply chain and reduce internal costs without impacting convenience or service to customers, says Jon Walkington, vice president of real-time retail at Apex Supply Chain Technologies.
articleHybrid AGV solution for DC
Domus Logistics despatches thousands from its distribution centre to deliver home furnishing articles to 520 CASA stores in eight different European countries.
articleBest of breed WMS
3PL DK Fulfilment has selected the Snapfulfil Cloud WMS to support its growth plans.
productHandles 500 order lines per hour
Kardex Remstar will be exhibiting at the eDelivery EXPO fresh from the launch of its LR 35 Vertical Buffer Module.
productNerak Wiese revamps website
Vertical elevation specialist Nerak Wiese has unveiled its new-look website.
articleAI promises lower costs in last mile delivery
New last mile delivery firm operates without warehousing for increased agility and takes an Omnichannel approach by using retailers’ stores as ‘pseudo distribution centres’. Simon Duddy interviews Stuart’s UK MD David Saenz.
productCBRE explores how eCommerce has disrupted urban logistics
The rapid rise of e-commerce has driven the most disruptive movement to the industrial & logistics industry, transforming the way we think about industrial real estate and restructuring the supply landscape forever, according to the Last Mile/ City Logistics, the latest industrial & logistics report from CBRE.
productDX has ‘operational issues’ with site consolidation plan
Parcels firm DX Group warned it anticipates profits for the year to the end of June will be below current market forecasts and it will not pay any dividends for the foreseeable future.
productBoohoo plans new warehouse
The online retailer will put an application for a second, bigger distribution centre on the site adjacent its existing warehouse before Burnley Council on Thursday evening.
newsVenture capitalists and start-ups pumping billions into delivery
Billions of dollars in venture-capital funding have poured into the post and parcel industry in the last two years, driven by the continued popularity of e-commerce and increased competitiveness in hyper-local, start-up delivery models, according to a report from Accenture.
productScotland Works coming to Glasgow
Scotland Works, a new exhibition designed to support Scotland’s industrial, commercial and public sectors in running safe and efficient businesses and organisations, is taking place at the SECC, Glasgow on 3-4 May 2017.
productAmazon launches apprenticeship scheme for warehouse workers
The move is part of an an expansion which will see the online retailer create 5,000 full time jobs in the UK this year, taking the company’s total UK workforce to over 24,000.
articlePowerful intralogistics in a compact footprint
Consolidating dry-food goods from several warehouses into a non-food distribution centre, Coop Denmark turned to Dematic for high performance and flexibility in a compact footprint.
articleZalando deploys real time barcode readers
The Cognex DataMan 503 real-time monitoring barcode readers boost picking speed at the company’s logistics centre in Erfurt, Germany.
articleMusic retailer to build automated warehouse
Musikhaus Thomann has selected TGW Logistics to provide an intralogistics solution for its new logistics centre.
articleMaximise availability with proactive maintenance says Witron
Many automated logistics systems run nearly 365 days a year and usually around the clock, making maintenance a key issue says Witron.
articleOut with the old? Not so fast…
Retailers need not abandon legacy systems to cope with the move to Omnichannel. Instead they can mix process driven solutions to boost efficiency, says Sébastien Sliski, general manager of Supply Chain Solutions, Zetes.
articleASOS installs complex sortation system from BS Handling
BS Handling Systems has successfully completed its biggest contract to date for ASOS allowing the giant fashion etailer to double its sortation volume to around 15,000 parcels an hour.
