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White paper explores future fulfilment challenges

Logistics Business Magazine

Robotics, AI and digitalisation hold the key to boosting capacity,” explains Craig Whitehouse, Managing Director at Invar Group – authors of the report. Invar Group has supplied systems to many of the world’s leading brands, such as: SuperDry, Games Workshop, Bentley, Coca Cola, and Nike. Immediacy is now a commercial imperative.

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Halfords implements Descartes’ last-mile delivery solution

Logistics Business Magazine

The advanced real-time capabilities of the Descartes solution enable Halfords to offer dynamic delivery pricing that considers existing orders, business objectives, road network, vehicle capacity and service constraints to price delivery appointment options.

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Warehouse Transformers

Logistics Business Magazine

However, he believes, “Robotics, AI and digitalisation hold the key to boosting capacity and keeping costs under control.”. These insights explain the enormous uptake of new, highly flexible forms of warehouse automation by many large retail brands and an increasing number of SMEs – particularly, within ecommerce channels.

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Uneek Group to Deploy New 3PL WMS

Logistics Business Magazine

Essential factors in the decision included Microlistics WMS’s strong 3PL capabilities (including multi-site, multi-client operations), robust integrated 3PL billing functionality and the capacity for true ‘real-time’ RF-based task management without paper-based workarounds.

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What Does it Take to be a Successful Entrepreneur? The Incredible Journey of a Last Mile Pioneer

Logistics Viewpoints

This was South Africa’s most well-known Ecommerce retail brand at the moment. So, we outsourced the delivery capacity too incumbent courier companies. He gave us a multi-day workshop on how to do this. Therefore, they come up with a plan to increase ecommerce sales by selling in townships using existing logistics solutions.