WMS

From OTIF to stock turn: KPIs for measuring warehouse performance. No matter your goal — whether it’s maximising product flow, smoothing receipt and putaway processes, or creating an efficient picking system — you need to be able to measure the performance of your business in order to identify where you need to improve. While these […]

Sealed Air to showcase its warehouse packaging solutions using Korber WMS. We’re pleased to announce a new client partnership with packaging solutions manufacturer, Sealed Air. The company will implement Korber WMS at its centre in Milan (Italy) dedicated to collaboration, education, and innovation to solve customers’ most critical packaging and sustainability challenges. The centre, called

Becoming a net zero carbon business by 2030. By signing up to The Climate Pledge last year, Balloon has committed to be a net zero carbon company by 2030. But we are now aiming to achieve net zero sooner than that. Here’s an update on some of the initiatives that will reduce our carbon impact

Welcome to our Graduates. Balloon has always championed a strategy of investing in our staff. We were recently awarded the Investors in People silver accreditation, a significant milestone that proves our achievements in the development and management of our employees. One part of our people strategy is to bring on board a cohort of new

Review of 2021: our highlights. Despite some fear and confusion due to the pandemic, along with the uncertainty of ever-changing government rules, 2021 has been a good year for Balloon. We were resilient in overcoming the workplace difficulties that Covid presented. Beginning in 2020, we quickly adapted to the new normal of working from home.

How a WMS can reduce your carbon footprint. In the wake of COP26 and its aim to bring climate change under control, more companies are actively looking to reduce their carbon footprint and to contribute to national and international endeavours to reach net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Striving to operate a carbon neutral

The True Cost of Food Waste in The UK Supply Chain. 4.8 million tonnes of food are wasted in the UK supply chain every year. That’s enough to feed approximately 2,646,000,000 people each day, or everyone in the UK for 39 days, according to recent research conducted here at Balloon One. Food waste is not

Balloon half marathon runners raise £2,500 for charity. Our amazing nine runners took to the streets of Ealing last weekend to run the Ealing Half Marathon and have raised £2,533 for children’s hospice charity, Helen & Douglas House. Thank you to the runners for their considerable efforts and to everyone who donated. We’re delighted that

Oscar Readwin remotely implements warehouse management system for Masters Golf in Belgium. Consultants Making IT Happen. The Masters Golf Company sells a range of golfing products through stockists across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The business is headquartered in Portishead, near Bristol in the UK. It works with global golfing manufacturers to

Balloon has signed The Climate Pledge. Balloon is proud to have become a signatory of The Climate Pledge (TCP), co-founded in 2019 by Amazon and the climate change organisation, Global Optimism. Signatories to The Climate Pledge commit to achieving net-zero carbon across their business by 2040, which is 10 years ahead of the target set