Month: July 2020

Sales Director Matt Gregory has taken over from Isabel McCabe as Managing Director at Voiteq UK.

The announcement comes as McCabe has decided to step down and spend more time with her family in her hometown of Glasgow, having completed over eight years at the helm of Voiteq UK, based in Blackpool.

McCabe says: “Matt has a long history with Voiteq and has already won the hearts and minds of the team. He was the obvious choice to steer Voiteq into what is an exciting future.”

The company added: “Since joining Voiteq in October 2017, Matt has been visiting customer sites, attending industry events and making panellist appearances for innovative roundtables. He even hosted the biggest Voice User Group worldwide. Matt has worked in the industry since 2006 and has built a wealth of experience, depth of knowledge and passion for smart warehouse technology. He understands first-hand how modern supply chain technology can truly transform a business.”

Matt Gregory said: “Voiteq was the first to introduce voice-directed work into UK warehouses, and for the past 20 years our expertise, knowledge and technology suite has evolved – just like the industry. I am fully aware of the incredible legacy I’ve inherited, which I will work tirelessly to protect and evolve in the next chapter of our journey. Voiteq is now the trusted team within Körber Supply Chain that specialises in voice, vision, mobility and robotics for the supply chain: pairing the right technologies, with the right solution, at the right time.”

Looking towards the future, he adds: “Our customers already know that regardless of innovations in technology, Voiteq has always been about the people and this will not change. We will continue to develop and recruit the best and the brightest talent our industry has to offer, in order to deliver that same exceptional customer experience.”

Efficient processes, harmonised fleets and a profit-generating integration of new technologies. These are the key factors for sustainable economic success in intralogistics. For STILL, specialist expert advice has been a mainstay of their corporate philosophy for 100 years, and an important building block of long-term customer relations as a partnership of equals. In the past few years, by using intralogistics consultancy to provide a service, STILL has also substantially contributed to a changed understanding of the comprehensive procedural concepts of logistics.

Complex requirements need individually customised consulting. Tailor-made solutions are created based on detailed analyses. Hans Still already worked according to these beliefs when he founded his electric motor workshop in 1920, and they are the mainstays of the intralogistics advisory service used by STILL since 2017 to offer comprehensively integrated procedural solutions through product or system consultancy.

Intralogistics consultancy at STILL – a success story with a future
Working in close cooperation with the customer, STILL experts combine all the elements of material and information flows to create an intelligent logistics concept. To do this, STILL focuses on an advisory approach in four steps. Careful data recording, including accurately recording the customer’s wishes and requirements, is followed by an exhaustive analysis as a reliable basis for planning. In the third step – optimisation – existing logistics processes are adapted and structured to fulfil current and future requirements in the best possible way, and to create all the conditions for sustainable, long-term success. The fourth step includes the design concept, putting a tailor-made solution approach into the customer’s hands. Transparency, clarity and feasibility have top priority in this respect. As Marina Hein, Senior Director Advanced Applications at STILL explains: “We only develop concepts that harmonise with the requirements, as well as with the customer’s current possibilities. This is the only way to enable him to handle them independently in the future as well. It needs precise analysis and clear communication.”

Increasing complexity leads to a growing need for advice
The consultancy unit is still young, but its success speaks for itself. Today, the six-member team of logistics experts already implements around 20 international consultancy projects each year. Three quarters of these already deal with questions of automation and its future implementation. This is because many companies have a constantly growing need for advice in view of increasingly complex intralogistics processes and global storage issues. Customers benefit from comprehensive experience and competence in the areas of process optimisation, tugger train and warehouse planning and automation. At the same time, successful reference projects have a strongly charismatic power due to their measurable commercial economic successes. Taken together, both have contributed to a clear change in the industry’s understanding of logistics as an economic success factor in the past few years.

Competent advice reduces costs and facilitates growth
Ever more companies understand that optimised fleets, systems and processes are a worthwhile investment in the future. For example, they enable efficient warehouse management, reduce space demands and shorten transport routes. That is how they create the conditions for commercial economic success and growth.
The greater the extent to which individual requirements and sector standards are already taken into account when planning new projects, global storage concepts or restructurings, the better will be the ability to anticipate and implement challenges in the future as well. With regard to the automation megatrend, this means, for example, “to create conditions for customers today that will enable them to integrate automation elements into their process organisation in the future,” explains Marina Hein.

Unforeseeable situations often need a fast response. Here again, STILL offers options for intralogistics consulting services at short notice. Online consulting, instant advice for suddenly necessary process adjustments or on-site assistance at short notice can help here.

From technical to procedural advice
For STILL, the depth and quality of their consultancy have a 100-year history. Hans Still already knew that optimised processes are an important cornerstone of commercial economic success – and that “optimised” always means “individual” as well. Therefore, based on individual consultancy, STILL has always focused on an endeavour to make customised, innovative solutions available for any challenge. The first major order for the young STILL company in the late nineteen-forties was a tailor-made electric cart for the German Federal Railway Company. The EK 2000 Electrocart is slim, agile and flexible, and perfectly adapted to the narrow space available on railway platforms and in loading sidings.

Over the years, transport logistics and customers’ needs are changing – and so is the STILL portfolio. The increasing complexity of global storage worlds demands vehicle concepts and consultancy services designed to an ever greater extent to match sector and customer-specific processes. In response, STILL has brought the modular system for their vehicles to full maturity. Coupled with the in-depth specialist knowledge and sector know-how of STILL experts, this modular design concept is what enables the custom-tailored configuration of STILL trucks.

Product optimisation in digital self-management
Moreover, STILL customers have also been able to digitally and independently manage and continuously optimise their fleets since 2012. This is made possible by intelligent web applications such as STILL neXXt fleet. All the information about their vehicles is drawn together and presented here in an easily understandable way, and customers can carry out operational planning for their industrial truck fleet at any time and from anywhere, and control capacities and integrate service activities into their own production workflow in an optimal way.

100 years of consulting, made by STILL
Focus on optimisation – this means that intralogistics consultancy by STILL is also a consistent, logical further development of the “made by STILL” concept of consultancy. It adds a procedure-based level to supplement the technical and product-based consulting services and applications. Be it an integrated or a stand-alone solution – customers profit from the 100 years of technical experience and specialist know-how of the STILL consultants.

P&O Ferrymasters today announces it is joining forces with Scan Global Logistics to improve the daily service between the Benelux region and Sweden as it further strengthens its pan-European logistics network. The partnership with a leading Nordic-based global freight forwarding provider will improve and strengthen both companies’ multimodal logistics footprints in two key northern European economic areas.

P&O Ferrymasters’ General Manager in Amsterdam, Marcel Manshanden, said: “This new partnership will further strengthen our capacity to find the right solutions for customers who face logistical challenges in transporting goods across Europe in a context of time-critical, cost-constrained supply chains. Our vision is to continue expanding our network into new geographies, enabling trade to flow more effectively and efficiently both for our customers and the economies which rely on the goods they supply. We look forward to the success this partnership will bring and to expanding our cooperation in the future.”

Scan Global Logistics’ Managing Director for Scan Global Logistics Road Sweden, Peter Anderson, said: “It is a strategically responsible partnership, which goes to show that even in times of uncertainty, opportunities arise and with our combined efforts, the customers of both companies will experience even better logistic options.”

P&O Ferrymasters and Scan Global Logistics will offer daily truck departures for Full Truckload (FTL), Less than Truckload (LTL) and Groupage services between the Benelux region and Sweden. The partnership will use a combined cargo model, increasing the operational frequency and efficiency of the route, lowering costs for customers and expanding their range of logistics solution options. This latest step follows the introduction of a number of new P&O Ferrymasters services in the last 12 months, including connections between Budapest, Duisburg and Rotterdam, and also between Oradea and Lodz.

P&O Ferries is a leading pan-European ferry and logistics company, last year sailing 27,000 times on eight major routes between Britain, France, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Holland and Belgium. Together with its logistics business, P&O Ferrymasters, the company also operates integrated road and rail links to countries across the continent including Italy, Poland, Germany, Spain and Romania, and facilitates the onward movement of goods to Britain from Asian countries via the Silk Road. P&O Ferries is part of DP World, the leading provider of smart logistics solutions, enabling the flow of trade across the globe.

Scan Global Logistics is a global full-service logistics provider headquartered in the Nordic, who excel in uncomplicating logistics through tailored solutions made by skilled specialists, proud problem-solvers and passionate entrepreneurs. Since 1972, the core of Scan Global Logistics’ DNA has been a ‘can-do-attitude’, agility and the willingness to always go the extra mile, and sometimes to go left when others go right. For Scan Global Logistics, every challenge is an opportunity and at the core of the company lies the willingness to go above and beyond to bring anything to anywhere – whether by road, rail, ocean, air or any other modes of transportation.