Even with today’s modern warehouse management technology there are still many warehouse operations with manually driven planning, operational and management tasks. The questions for businesses with a manual warehouse are however, how many tasks do you complete each day and week, how much planning and execution time do you use doing things manually and what is the return on investment if your systems calculated, distributed and helped control the execution of these tasks for you? Without understanding this, you could be spending a lot more money than you need to – even when you think your operations are well controlled and there is no room for improvement. (more…)

Orange have teamed up with Barlcaycard and a host of high street names to bring the concept of NFC payments to life whilst shopping in the UK.  This means you can walk into MacDonalds, Boots, Subway, Pret, AMT coffee and even Little Chef and make payments using a phone. (more…)

Pareto analysis can be applied  in logistics in a number of practical ways and can be particularly useful when resources are stretched or costs need to be slashed.  Andy Hudson, Managing Director of Profit Through Pareto discusses 2 areas where Pareto Analysis can be used in these cases. (more…)

Most people are familiar with, or use social media these days  in one form or another.  With usage on the rise, can social media be exploited to help improve supply chains? (more…)

The barcode, taken for granted by both shoppers and supply chain analysts and for years threatened by emerging technologies, could be about to turn the world of high street retailing and distribution upside down. (more…)