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Operations start at smart eCommerce warehouse

Logistics Business Magazine

The company’s 2,000 sq m eCommerce fulfilment centre (EFC) in Kwai Chung has been equipped with an automatic guided vehicle (AGV) and Intelligent Racking system, and associated operating software, to improve the efficiency of operations and reduce costs.

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Supply Chain risks to retail profitability

Logistics Business Magazine

There has been an undoubted change in consumer behaviour, including the acceleration of ecommerce uptake. Omnichannel, where a consumer, for example, might buy online, collect in store and pick up another item there, then return something by mail. Consumers remain fickle, increasingly conscious of their environmental footprint.

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Industry View: Overcoming Challenges to Delivery Efficiency in Difficult Times

Logistics Business Magazine

With the Government placing the UK on police-enforced lockdown, not only has panic-buying ensued, but with the public unable to purchase items from stores – ecommerce demand has seen huge growth, with a resultant exponential increase in the number of home deliveries for all types of goods. Growth of ecommerce.

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Six supply chain predictions for 2022

Logistics Business Magazine

With capacity constraints, ecommerce growth and driver shortages creating dilemmas for many as well as the increased focus from the industry on environment and machine learning, it was a year that was definitely not without its tests. The post Six supply chain predictions for 2022 appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Industry View: Picking Up The Pace of Fulfilment

Logistics Business Magazine

This means that internet retailers will come to see their logistics strategy as an increasingly crucial driver of sales and profitability and many will seek to enlist the help of an ecommerce third party logistics specialist. The post Industry View: Picking Up The Pace of Fulfilment appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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