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H N Nuttall Enhances Fleet Management with Springboard Delivery

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H. N. Nuttall is a family-owned business that supplies dry, chilled and frozen foods to the catering industry. Based in Manchester, the distributor supplies restaurants, hotels, care homes, hospitals, schools, colleges and other venues across England and Wales. Inefficient route scheduling and no proof of delivery Running its own fleet of around 20 trucks, H. […]

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Task Interleaving

Task Interleaving for Warehouse Efficiency

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Task interleaving is an advanced productivity strategy that can be employed in a warehouse – via a warehouse management system (WMS) – to improve operational efficiency. What is task interleaving? Task interleaving is the process of combining different tasks – interleaving them – on a single trip within the warehouse. So perhaps a warehouse worker

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Warehouse KPIs space utilisation

Measuring Warehouse KPIs: Space Utilisation

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This is the sixth in our blog posts series that looks at measuring KPIs for warehouse operations. Having recently outlined the 7 KPIs to track for warehouse improvement, this series takes each KPI and examines it more thoroughly. What does space utilisation measure? Space utilisation is an inventory measure.  It shows the percentage of bins

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Reverse Logistics

Using Supply Chain Management to Tackle Reverse Logistics

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As commerce has increasingly shifted online, the traditional way of returning goods – taking them back to the store – isn’t always a consumer’s preferred method. So it’s important that distributors and retailers have clear reverse logistics procedures in place for returned goods. There are many reasons that customers return items. Perhaps they aren’t what

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