In this category we present the latest in delivery and logistic solutions.
A booming online mail-order business and successful shop-in-shop concepts with increasing shipping and return rates require efficient and evidence-proof processes within logistics companies.
mport cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to decline year-over-year for the next few months but the first half of the year should still amount to a 4.5 percent increase compared with the same period last year, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.
The event IRX, co-located with EDX, Europe’s only dedicated multichannel delivery event, is set to showcase the latest innovations for online and multichannel retailing at the NEC in Birmingham next 27th and 28th April. ...
FatWallet.com, where millions of online deal hunters go to stack deals and coupons with cash back, launches Free Shipping Week featuring more than 35 major retailers offering both free shipping with no minimum purchase and cash back from ...
Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to be essentially unchanged from last year this month as stores bring in the last round of merchandise for the holiday season, according to the monthly Global Port ...
The National Retail Federation applauded the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for moving forward with a long-term transportation bill that is critically important to America’s retailers. “Retailers are among the ...
Kewill announced that Bob Farrell has decided to transition his role as CEO of the company to Doug Braun, effective immediately. Farrell will continue to support the transition through December. “I am excited about the opportunity to again ...
It requires perfect timing, improvisational skills, and nerves of steel: you need to overcome a mountain of logistics before a store is able to launch with a new look. Furniture and equipment need to be available at the right time, so shopfitters ...
Since mid-June Michael Schalk is the senior account manager responsible for the expansion of the logistics solutions market at the image processing specialists FRAMOS. Dr. Simon Che'Rose, head of FRAMOS Imaging Systems: "Michael Schalk ...
TrueShip has just released a new guide that highlights nine different ecommerce stores that are selling more items due to their free shipping amenity. The guide serves to cover e-retailers that use free shipping to decrease shopping cart ...
Environmentally friendly packaging and green supply chain practices are important to most online shoppers, according to a new study from Dotcom Distribution, a provider of fulfillment and logistics services for both emerging and established ...
Unlocking e-commerce potential is central to the development of the new EU Digital Single Market and Digital Economy stated the Alliance for European Logistics (AEL) during the 7th European Logistics Summit. AEL believes the time has come to ...
Sustainability and climate protection are subjects that ultimately also pertain to logistics. Recently, GS1 Germany presented the Lean and Green Award to four companies who plan to reduce their logistics-related CO2 emissions by 20 percent within ...
Scandit, developer of the leading software-based barcode scanning solutions for smartphones, tablets and wearable devices, today unveiled a new mobile app suite for the transportation and logistics industries designed to greatly enhance ...
wnDirect has launched the world’s first worldwide click and collect solution. wnCollect, as it has been coined, leverages wnDirect’s IT resource, global infrastructure and partner relationships to make the global Pick-Up-and-Drop-Off ...
U.S. retailers must move quickly to improve their operational capabilities in order to deliver a “seamless retail” experience to customers who say their expectations are not being met, according to new research by Accenture ...
The combination of security systems with other solutions – for instance inventory management – is a topic that is increasingly being discussed in the retail sector. At the EuroCIS 2015, we spoke with Hans-Jürgen Nausch, Global ...
The MetaPack Group, the leading provider of eCommerce technology for delivery services, today confirmed the agenda for the sixth annual Delivery Conference, taking place on 3rd February 2015 at the Westminster Park Plaza in London. View the full ...
Many people have strong habits when it comes to shopping, preferring favorite stores and favorite brands. But a new study in the Journal of Marketing Research suggests that these same shoppers may have hidden habits that are hurting ...
Listrak, an innovator of omnichannel digital marketing solutions for retailers, has announced it will present a full-day Retail Personalization Workshop at MarketingSherpa Email Summit 2015, being held in Las Vegas. The workshop will be held on ...
The Alliance for European Logistics (AEL) launched its re-newed Declaration aiming to work closely with the EU institutions towards a competitive European economy. Representing major EU players, the members of AEL ask to the new Commission and ...
Composite Engineers from an independent research centre in Loughborough, UK, succeeded in the development of a new material that could save up to 15 percent of fuel in freight transport. The new composite material contains double the volume of ...
Controlling the post production life cycle of food is an important element of food supply chains. Improper handling of product during transport, storage and in households results in quality defects, increases risk of microbial growth, subsequent ...
Forklifts that choose efficient routes, pallets that reliably arrive at the right place and in the right condition, products and machines that communicate among themselves – that is the vision behind Industry 4.0. Scientists at the ...
When brick-and-mortar retailers expand their business with an online store, software interfaces between online store, inventory management system and logistics need to work optimally to remain economically profitable. iXtenso spoke with Dr. Georg ...
More and more retailers today are using both their stores and also own online stores to offer their products. MyMuesli started as a pure Online-Shop but has successfully opened their own stores also. In this interview, Store Expansion Manager ...
Logistics is the third largest economic sector in Germany. Its growth is stable. But there is more: especially in the area of IT, retailers need to continue to ramp things up to be ready for the increasing link between the different distribution ...
Due to the new EU GDP guidelines for the transportation of pharmaceuticals, the trans-o-flex Logistics Group has decided to introduce active temperature control in the range of between 15 and 25 °C for the nationwide network of its trans-o-flex ...
LogiMAT 2014 is being held under the motto of "Intelligent networking – Mastering complexity". Already 82 percent of the exhibition space has been sold – a good seven months before the show gets under way. That is a positive ...
GT Nexus announced today that it has been selected by Electrolux to provide a cloud technology platform that will automate the closed loop global freight spend management process for leading appliance manufacturer. Delivered as a service over ...
Retail does a lot to avoid waste, believes Kai Falk from the German Retail Federation HDE. He fights against further political obstacles and embraces the upcoming German Life-Cycle Resource Management Act as a step in the right direction. However, ...
To enable the British haulage firm Abbey Logistics to plan and manage the tours of its trucks with maximum efficiency, it needed a state-of-the-art technology that was easy to operate – and found the right tool in a mobile terminal from ...
Motorola Solutions, a provider of mission-critical communication solutions and services for enterprise and government customers, has introduced the high-performance MC9190-Z RFID mobile computer, designed for demanding medium- to long-range ...
The first project is the construction of a 20,000 m² extension of the Araia platform in the Spanish Basque Country, which GSE originally constructed in 2002. Construction work has begun, and will be finished in January 2013. The second ...
El Corte Inglés is the first great enterprise in the distribution and retail sector in Europe that uses RFID technology to load their trucks. The company has implanted this new systems in CAD Valdemoro (Madrid), its central wharehouse, which has an ...
Prize reductions with concurrent rise of the product availability. This is the basic equation to satisfy the customer. From now on the consumer has the choice. Dr. Joseph Felfeli, managing director of Acteos, has declared on the conference ...
Hoeft & Wessel, the leading IT and engineering technology Group for ticketing, parking and mobile solutions in Great Britain and Germany, plans to strengthen its sales and marketing activities for Skeye mobile terminals in the UK. Following the ...
Inside the RT1018 works fast Intel Core Duo processor D525, from the especially low-power Atom family. Moreover the dual battery system and hot-swappable batteries extends the operating time. The Tablet PC has a fast, expandable 32 GB solid state ...
Videos, images and interactive applications integrated in modern interfaces: Internet and smart phone users utilize the many options they are offered thousands of times a day. Bank customers also expect to see the technologies and operating concepts ...
The results of the international PIM study shows a return on investment (ROI) from an Enterprise Product Information Management (PIM) solution is possible within the framework of a multichannel commerce strategy. Over 400 retailers and manufacturers ...
NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) announced NCR Predictive Services, a managed service for self-service terminals. Unlike other offerings that proactively monitor for business disruptions and then react, NCR Predictive Services is the first managed ...
The SAF AG from Tägerwilen by Lake Constance develops ordering and forecasting software for manufacturing and trade. The Swiss company pursues the approach of demand chain management. Here supply chain management is driven by the demand of the ...
Inventory management: “The inventory count procedure can be optimized“ Interview with Thies Proppe, Superdata EDV-Vertrieb The inventory management software DEWAS for headquarters and stores form the backbone of ...
Just in time for the international logistics fair Transport & Logistic, in Munich Germany, Datalogic Mobile will be presenting its latest news. From May 10. – 13. the company will be present in hall B2, booth 319/418 showing its new mobile ...
Retail is betting on central warehouses and rightly so, since this creates significant savings and synergies, especially when it comes to personnel expenses. However, more and more properties are being leased and not self-built anymore, Umut Ertan, ...
Total annual revenue 2009 increased from EUR 13.4 million to EUR 16.6 million Total license sales 2009 increased by 36.4 percent Maintenance business grew by 26.6 percent in fiscal year 2009 Additional costs due to takeover affect net ...
SAF AG, which is listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ISIN CH0024848738), and is one of the world’s leading suppliers of automated forecasting and ordering systems for retailers, will present expanded functionalities ...
iShopShape, a leading provider of retail execution and compliance management solutions, announced today that its solutions have been selected by s.Oliver, a leading German-based fashion and lifestyle brand. The company is now using ...
Torex Retail Holdings Limited (Torex™), the leading global provider of innovative, integrated technology solutions to the extended retail marketplace, has been selected by Mothercare to deploy Torex™ Merchandise Planning (formerly ...
Düsseldorf/Zurich. Minicom Digital Signage, the leader in "last mile" player-to-screen connectivity platforms for the Digital Signage marketplace, and Reed Exhibitions Germany, the organizers of the viscom exhibition series, announce this week the ...
