Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

John is Strategic Advisor of Transportation & Logistics at Clarendon Capital , a private equity sponsor focused on developing investment opportunities and providing strategic advisory services to the transportation, logistics and distribution sectors. Larkin headed up Stifel’s transportation and logistics research effort.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The 299 newly installed AMRs move pallets and totes to transfer stations and picking stations at its logistics centre in Groningen, Netherlands. From there, they are transported to transfer stations and picking station racks at the packing stations. The same process then takes place in reverse. •

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The new automation project for a logistics centre in Italy demonstrates once again Fives’ leadership in intralogistics and the success of its micro-fulfilment-based strategy, which supports the growth of the retail, e-commerce and 3PL sectors. Unparalleled performance. and Industrial-IoT. . and Industrial-IoT.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 24, 2023

Gebrüder Weiss has opened a logistics terminal in the Kreckelmoos industrial estate in Reutte. The logistics company has invested around €8m in the new building, which was completed in less than a year. The location is specifically designed to meet the requirements of locally-based businesses in Tyrol, Austria.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Integrator Witron is to design and implement a new automated logistics centre for German food retailer REWE. The most important reasons for this investment decision were both ecological and economic factors”, says REWE’s Business Unit Manager Logistics National / Supply Chain Management, Matthias Bähr.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Red Bull’s Formula One HQ in Milton Keynes is an appropriate and impressive backdrop to learn why data is fuel in logistics. High performance in logistics can be maintained by extracting insights from data and taking practical steps. Complexity requires having a data strategy.”

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

IKEA France , the winner of a call for projects organised by Haropa-Ports of Paris , now has a 16 hectare site at the port of Limay-Porcheville that will allow it to set up a logistics warehouse at Limay. It will serve a huge area ranging from Greater Paris for the vast majority of deliveries to areas in western France.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Toyota Material Handling Europe and Toyota Europe Design Development have presented the winners of this year’s Toyota Logistic Design Competition. A panel of design experts chose 10 finalists in a first round, with a second jury of industry experts picking the final winners. We are already looking forward to the next edition.”.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2024

Arvato is increasing the targeted use of robots in its logistics centres. As part of the “Autostore Port Picking” (ASPP) pilot project, Nomagic’s “justPick” robot will be used to pick individual item orders from the fully automated Autostore warehouse.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 13, 2020

STILL says its OPX horizontal order pickers, launched three years ago, are “ready for a new adventure” Equipped with the smart iGo neo technology they become autonomous assistants raising the productivity of order pickers in operations with a high pick density to a new level.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 8, 2020

One of the biggest challenges faced by successful e-commerce operations stepping up to their first fulfilment centre will be minimising pick errors. Edward Hutchison, Managing Director of BITO Storage Systems, highlights four key areas where picking mistakes are commonly generated. Long journeys between picks.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Descartes Systems Group, a leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that U.K.-based Using the solution to improving picking efficiency and accuracy, AYBL has doubled its fulfilment capacity with existing staff and can seamlessly scale to fulfil over 70,000 orders a day during peak season. “To

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2024

Specialist 3PL fulfilment provider Europa Warehouse has reported a 45 per cent increase in total orders picked in December 2023* across its 3PL sites. ft combined of dedicated warehouse and logistics space – operated without the usual stress and pressure associated with “peak”.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 10, 2023

RightHand Robotics, a leader in data-driven, autonomous robotic picking solutions for order fulfilment, announces the appointment of tech industry veteran Brian D. The company’s piece-picking technology is in high demand in the market and I look forward to working with this amazing team to continue that momentum to grow the company worldwide.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The property, with a total area of around 43,000 sq m, has now been officially handed over to the logistics subsidiary of the building materials and DIY store cooperation. Its omnichannel and logistics activities are to be bundled in Walsrode in the future. Garbe Industrial Real Estate invested around €34m in the new building.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 10, 2020

As online retail orders rise, customer expectations are rising too and the pressure on retailers to fulfil orders when and where they’re wanted is intensifying, says Charlie Walker, marketing director of Walker Logistics. But, picking the third party logistics specialist that will be right for your business can be a daunting process.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2022

After the business was bought by Francisco Partners and rebranded to Keyloop, Pearcey picked up responsibility for the Irish sales team. Pearcey will focus on growing the business by leading the sales strategy to increase Mandata’s customer base across the UK and Europe. Commitment to Mandata growth.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 23, 2019

As ao.com expands its product offering, a high-capacity drop-shipping system is essential for supporting its growth strategy. The post Online White Goods Retailer Picks BluJay’s DropShip appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 30, 2023

The innovative, robot-driven warehouse automation system will also ensure order pick accuracy and improve workplace quality, ergonomics, and safety. LocusBots navigate autonomously through the warehouse working closely and safely with associates to improve order picking productivity and throughput efficiency.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 17, 2023

For the expansion of their existing logistics infrastructure, retailers have for a long time mainly preferred greenfield solutions over brownfield, says Witron. Consequently, it is a matter of transforming facilities that were previously used manually into automated logistics centres.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

AliExpress , part of Alibaba Group and one of the world’s largest online retail marketplaces, has introduced innovative logistics solutions in partnership with Cainiao, Alibaba’s logistics arm. In the past year, the number of packages received and delivered by AliExpress’ ecosystem logistics partners has increased by 100%.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

In doing so, Vanderlande has added the RightHand Robotics award-winning RightPick item handling system to its Smart Item Robotics (SIR) portfolio of technologies, following the company’s strategy to accelerate the use of robotics in warehousing.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 18, 2023

Our next entry is the Light Tag pick-by-light solution from NIMMSTA GmbH. The NIMMSTA Light Tags represent a completely new approach to a pick-by-light solution that achieves up to 80% more efficiency without integration effort and in combination with the NIMMSTA Industrial Smart Watch. The task for visitors was to pick five products.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Hai Robotics, a pioneer in Autonomous Case-handling Robot (ACR) systems for warehouse logistics, provided a deeper intelligent technology integration and development of in-plant logistics in the healthcare facility, delivering higher workflow efficiency rates and lower labour costs. ACR intelligent picking liberates manpower.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Edward Napier-Fenning, Sales & Marketing Director of leading supply chain software company Balloon , explores five key areas that can boost performance – including route planning, picking, labour management reporting and data entry. Quite suddenly, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Expanding a highly dynamic multi-temperature logistics centre for roughly 1,200 stores during ongoing operations with an increase in pick performance from 480,000 to almost 625,000 cases daily, is a tremendous challenge as such. The volume of the logistics center has almost doubled”, Weiß responds laughing.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2022

What’s driving warehousing strategies? Along with the rapid growth of ecommerce, there is a strong desire to develop faster fulfilment strategies and importantly, equally efficient returns processes. Trials are in progress at the moment for AR glasses that can be used to guide an individual to picking locations.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The world´s number one robot manufacturing country is developing automation strategies that will not only target logistical issues but also a wide range of industry challenges the new working time legislation will cause. Mobile robot solutions in transportation and logistics can help.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2022

In addition, it was able to virtually eliminate miss-picked items and overselling of inventory, and reduced customer service queries by more than 70%. Now we’re extremely proud of our current logistics operations and our ability to better control over our customers’ delivery experiences.”

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Due to the corona pandemic, logistics has to master its greatest challenges. Innovative technology from DENSO Wave Europe makes logistics processes leaner, faster and more efficient. Logistics is under massive pressure: On the one hand, the industry has good growth prospects due to the corona-related growth in e-commerce.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

Initial investments in assisted picking robots have proven effective in commercially scaled operations, and this multi-million dollar agreement will enhance DHL’s wider Accelerated Digitalisation Strategy. So far, more than 500 assisted picking robots are already in industrial use in our warehouses in the USA, Europe and the UK.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

Part of Germany’s largest supermarket chain, the regional company Edeka Minden-Hannover is automating its fresh produce logistics in the fruit and vegetable sector with an intralogistics solution from Cimcorp , which has specialised in this automation for over 40 years. We look forward to working with Edeka on this further project.”.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 4, 2018

With storage space at a premium, growth, along with increased customer demand, forced Toolstream to review its operational requirements and to rethink its intralogistics strategy. Prior to this, picking was carried out using trolleys in very narrow aisle, adjustable pallet racking.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 9, 2020

Poland-based nail care specialist Indigo Nails has appointed Walker Logistics to undertake fulfilment of orders for its range of nail care and home spa cosmetics products to its growing client base in the UK. William Walker added: “Setting up a logistics operation in the UK is part of Indigo Nails’ growth strategy.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Tosca acted quickly when the unit next door became available as it coincided with the business’s expansion strategy for the region. The post Packaging company expands to Yorkshire site appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 4, 2024

Our business has scaled from an Amazon marketplace that used manual- and paper-based systems to pick and pack orders weekly to a growing online fashion brand that fulfils orders daily with almost 100% accuracy using the Descartes solution,” said Chris Brian, Co-Founder of LOVALL.

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