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As Schneider Electric’s Olivier Redon revealed at the Kinaxis Big Ideas In Supply Chain event, prioritising end-to-end orchestration of systems in the supply chain is an absolute must for companies today Spearheading the digital transformation on energy management and automation, Schneider Electric is a behemoth of a company. It turned over €25 billion in 2020…
How do you navigate your supply chain journey now while planning for tomorrow? Two leading thought leaders from Kinaxis debated that very topic at the recent Big Ideas in Supply Chain webinar in October John Sicard has had the opportunity to talk with a great many supply chain leaders over the course of the past…
When leaders from around the world met in Glasgow, Scotland, at the beginning of November for the COP26 summit, UN Secretary General António Guterres opened the proceedings with a stark warning. “Either we stop it – or it stops us,” he cautioned. “We are digging our own graves” As the world’s media watched on with…
As well as announcing that it has confirmed its participation at the inaugural Final Destination Logistics exhibition, taking place at the Exhibition Centre in Liverpool, 18-19 May 2022, DP World has also revealed it has partnered with Virgin Hyperloop, the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) MENA region, Class of Your Own (COYO), Bentley Systems and…
In mid-July 2021, the Swedish food retailer, Axfood, awarded its logistics lifetime partner WITRON Logistik + Informatik from Parkstein, Germany, the order for the design, implementation, service and system operation of a food e-commerce DC in Gothenburg, Sweden. Both companies are therefore continuing the OCM (Omni-Channel Machinery) strategy they started with four very specific goals:…
Order your copy of the Top 50 Logistics Service Providers 2021 now! There are some familiar names in some fairly similar positions, but also many surprises in the 2021 edition of Logistics Manager’s Top 50 Service Logistics Service Providers, which is now available to purchase. Above all else, this year’s analysis of the UK’s leading 3PLs,…
The enhancement of the Parcel Collect service is set to make it easier for customers to return goods. Royal Mail created Parcel Collect to make it easier for customers to return goods without the need to go out and post parcels themselves. Instead, a postman comes to a customer’s door and picks up the parcel…
Grocery giant Waitrose & Partners has expanded its Magna Park, UK warehouse with AR Racking. The new extension includes an intralogistics solution with AR Racking’s adjustable pallet racking which has added a storage capacity of 13,604 pallets to the facility. The storage system will increase the ease with loading and unloading. The partnership is a…
Covid & Brexit are exacerbating labour shortages, companies are looking to automation as an answer. The pandemic and Brexit have brought about a perfect storm for supply chains. It has led to seismic disruption in shopping behaviour, accelerating online sales by the equivalent of five years. Britain is experiencing the worst labour shortages since the…
France-based slimline autonomous mobile robot (AMR) provider iFollow has landed in the UK. The company is set to transform order picking in the grocery sector. iFollow has arrived in the UK intralogistics market to offer premium autonomous mobile robots that will transform order picking and heavy load transport in warehouses and logistics operations. The company…
Developer Newlands with South African investor partner Equites are planning a 175-acre logistics park on a greenfield site near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, East Midlands. The proposals, which are currently under consultation prior to an application being submitted, include a 592,000ft2 pre-let facility for a major 3PL on Plot One, (subject to planning), as well as…
Ultra-fast grocery delivery company Getir, is taking a 2,500ft2 warehouse depot at SEGRO’s Slough Trading Estate as part of its expansion plans in the UK. Getir has secured a five year lease on the unit which will be used as a fulfilment centre, enabling the company to reach customers and deliver orders in the Slough…
Automotive logistics and supply chain solution provider GEFCO, is in the final phase of its plan to install 290 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations on compounds across Europe. Made to order by e-Totem, one of France’s leading EV charger providers, these unique facilities will help carmakers and dealers charge vehicles before delivery to end-customers. 145 new…
FedEx Express has increased its intra-Europe capacity with the addition of three new flights and four flight capacity upgrades. The new flights add a total of 210,000 kilograms of freight a week on specific lanes within Europe. In anticipation of peak season, FedEx Express will also temporarily boost its transatlantic air capacity, reaching up to…
Freight management system SmartFreight has streamlined shipping for landscaping company Green-tech. Green-tech turned to SmartFreight, part of the WiseTech Global group, a leading developer and provider of software solutions to the logistics industry, to boost warehouse efficiency. The company also wanted to enhance the tracking facility for its huge range of landscaping materials and wholesale…
A range of financial incentives which make it more “economically attractive” for businesses to locate to Thames Freeport have begun. Anyone setting up a new logistics, manufacturing, or clean energy company at Thames Freeport will be able to access “tangible economic benefits” which are available across the three tax sites at Ford Dagenham, the Port…
An 850,000ft2 distribution facility has seen a number of efficiency gains since KNAPP automated The Very Group Skygate DC in the East Midlands. Opened in March 2020, the 850,000ft2 facility has secured a number of benefits for the online retailer and its customers, including greater product availability, faster refunds, and an enhanced ability to handle…
Real estate investor Logicor is thought to have paid a joint venture company managed and co-owned by Oxenwood Real Estate, around £85 million for a 951,000ft2 warehouse on a 38.5 acre site in Daventry, East Midlands. The property, is let to XPO on a lease expiring in 2024. There is a rent review and tenant’s…
Supply chain leader and Top 50 sponsor Wincanton has won a five-year contract with fashion retailer Primark, and will take care of its transport services to all of its UK stores. The five-year contract which begins early in 2022, will see Wincanton make more than 50,000 deliveries to 191 stores across the UK each year….
Out-of-home and e-commerce delivery company InPost, has partnered with online retail giant eBay to expand last mile delivery pick-up options for customers. InPost is expanding its services to the C2C market, after growing online sales lead to a demand for more flexible delivery options. eBay marketplace sellers will now have access to InPost’s 2,500 parcel…
Food supplier and distributor Leathams has pre-let a 30,000ft2 warehouse at Railpen and Wrenbridge’s 9-acre Dartford X urban warehouse scheme in Dartford, East London. Railpen’s development partner Wrenbridge has delivered five new Grade A warehouse units ranging in size from 13,000ft2 to 75,000ft2 at the scheme. Each warehouse has achieved a BREEAM Excellent rating and…
St. Modwen Logistics has secured planning permission for more than one million ft2 of warehouse and industrial space in six locations nationwide. Demand for logistics space has increased dramatically in the last 18 months and continues to rise, with Q3 year-to-date take-up 37% above the long-term annual average. As a result, St. Modwen Logistics is…
Hermes UK has opened a pop-up distribution depot at Meteor Park, Aston in Birmingham to handle parcels during the Christmas period. The 112,825 ft2 unit has 12m eaves as well as 8 docks and two level access doors. It has a 50kn/m floor loading as well as a 50m yard. Michael Duffy, depot manager, said:…
A fully automated parcel sorting machine which can process 180,000 parcels per day has been installed by Royal Mail in its Tynside Mail centre. The machine consists of an system of conveyor belts and scanning technology which automatically sorts parcels so that they are ready for dispatch within Royal Mail’s network. The machine uses its…
Grocery giant Tesco has launched a pilot to ultra-fast delivery company Gorillas, to give customers the option to have goods delivered within ten minutes. Tesco products are currently available on the Gorillas app and can be delivered quickly to customers in a selected area. The partnership will see Gorillas set up micro-fulfilment sites at five…
DFDS, one of Europe’s largest ferry and logistics providers, and the iPort Rail inland terminal in Doncaster, have launched The Humber Express which will deliver freight from the Port of Immingham to a multimodal logistics hub in South Yorkshire. The containers on the service will have arrived at the port by ship from multiple destinations…
A detailed planning application has been submitted for a bespoke manufacturing facility totalling 645,000ft2 in Delta Park, Peterborough, after the developer bought the former MARS Petcare site. Work will commence on site in Q2 2022, subject to planning, creating over 250 jobs in the area. Greg Dalton, Development Manager for Trebor said: “We are absolutely…
The UK’s largest ports operator, Associated British Ports (ABP) is planning on developing more than 1,000 acres of land to support the supply chain, manufacturing, and renewable energy industries. ABP currently operated 21 ports across the UK, and will be making 14 strategic sites, covering a total of 1,075 acres, available for multiple uses. The…
farmer connect with UCC Coffee were the only entrants to appear on stage twice at the Supply Chain Excellence Awards last Monday, 8th November, as they claimed the ‘The Kinaxia Logistics Award for Food and Drink Supply Chain Excellence’ and the star prize, ‘The Geek+ Team of the Year Award’. The big award was presented…
Arguably the loudest cheer at the Supply Chain Excellence Awards last Monday, 8th November, came when Uniserve and the Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) were announced as the winners of the ‘Public Sector Supply Chain Excellence Award’. The award was presented by Logistics Manager’s Property Editor, Liza Helps, after the big reveal from…
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