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Pharmacy Boasts 1st Piece-picking Solution

Logistics Business Magazine

Swedish online pharmacy Apotea automated its logistics centre last Autumn with a piece-picking solution to quickly, easily, and smoothly deliver approximately 50,000 orders a day to its customers. For us, it was essential to have a solution that can handle variations in product size and order intake, and that can expand as we grow.

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Benetton optimises picking in Villorba DC

Logistics Business Magazine

Dematic has announced an agreement with Benetton Group, one of the best-known fashion companies in the world, whose core business consists of iconic clothing brands United Colors of Benetton and Sisley and a retail network of more than 4,000 stores. Benetton Group staff previously had to travel long distances to pick individual items.

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Logistics Software: How to Make Handling Peak Times Easy

Logistics Viewpoints

The result is often a peak sales volume for a specific group of items. They can reveal any weak points in the logistics installation, such as unplanned replenishment from overstock to the picking area, or failure of mechanical components, and allow you to take measures to correct the problem before things get out of hand.

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Covid Forces Retailers to Rethink Order Picking Methods

Logistics Business Magazine

When Covid triggered the e-commerce frenzy, many grocery retail logistics operations had little choice but to rethink their order picking methodologies and, as a result there is a trend away from traditional zone picking towards wave picking B to C strategies, says John Maguire, managing director of Narrow Aisle Ltd.

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Case Study: InterChange Group

Camelot 3PL Software

Background: InterChange Group in Harrisonburg, VA performs cold-storage warehousing and distribution for major U.S. There were two parts to the project: 1) integration of the semi-automated forklifts with Excalibur WMS for full-pallet picking and 2) implementation of the layer-pick operation using a more centralized replenishment system.

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Alstef Group launches new software suite

Logistics Business Magazine

Developed by Alstef Group through knowledge and experience gained over 40 years of intralogistics management and controls, OPAL is an innovative, unified software suite, which ensures the overall control of automated storage, AGV fleets, order picking, and the associated flows for all logistics solutions offered by the group.

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Fashion group DK Company gets new racking

Logistics Business Magazine

NC Nielsen, AR Racking’s Danish strategic distributor, carried out the design and installation of the new warehouse of the multi-brand fashion group DK Company in Ikast (Denmark) in an extraordinary time of just nine weeks leading the comprehensive management of the project. In total, 4,000 pallet positions, of which 60% will be for picking.

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