Day: 17 September 2020

Providing a perfect platform for heavy and large loads, the self-propelled platform transporter from Hubtex transports machine parts, steel beams, coils, sheet metal, castings and injection moulding tools safely and reliably. The SFB series has now been equipped with a new steering mechanism in the load capacity range up to 25t. The single wheel steering is supported by a differential drive on the rear axle. Compared to the all-wheel steering available on the market, the new steering mechanism impresses with minimal turning radii and a more cost-effective compact design.

Platform transporters in the SFB series from Hubtex are compact, self-propelled vehicles for indoor and outdoor use that have a large loading area for the transport of bulky, heavy loads. The leading manufacturer of custom-made industrial trucks has now modified the SFB 25 and offers a platform transporter with a load capacity of up to 25 t with single-wheel steering on the front axle, supported by a differential drive on the rear axle. This steering principle was previously used in the RoxX electric heavy-duty compact forklift. It is now being gradually extended to platform transporters with different load-bearing capacity classes.

In contrast to the standard steering mechanism using an axle and cylinder with a maximum steering angle of 45°, the single-axle steering used on the front axle allows a steering angle of up to 70°. As a result of this increased steering angle, the overall turning radius can be significantly reduced. This means that the platform transporter can also be used in production or storage areas with limited space where manoeuvring is impractical. The SFB 25 offers a cost-effective alternative to trucks with all-wheel steering in the load capacity range up to 25t. The reduced complexity of the single-axle steering also leads to a significant cost saving. Another positive aspect of the new steering mechanism is the minimal amount of space required in the truck, meaning the designs can be more compact than those for hydraulic steering mechanisms.

The SFB 25 is 2,550 mm long, 1,750 mm wide and 900 mm high and can be ideally adapted to different customer requirements due to its modular design. With a powerful 80-volt drive, the SFB 25 features the unique division of the battery into two trays which contributes towards the compact design. The flexibility to operate on both even and uneven ground is key, which is why Hubtex offers the platform truck with soft elastic tyres. As a result, the SFB 25 is not limited to indoor applications on super flat floors. Instead, transport materials safely and efficiently both inside and outside on uneven surfaces. The self-propelled transport vehicle is operated via cable or radio remote control. This enables the platform transporters to be flawlessly integrated into automated processes, which is crucial as Industry 4.0 continues to transform future production processes.

Prologis, a global leader in logistics real estate, has launched ‘Prologis Essentials Marketplace’ for Europe, a handy procurement platform that helps customers quickly set up, integrate or upgrade their warehouse operations with sustainable and cost-saving technologies, products and services. This online resource offers a raft of key warehouse interior products and fully managed instalment processes including Prologis SolarSmart, a green energy generation system that helps customers reduce the impact of their operations on the environment. Other products available include warehouse racking and forklift solutions.

Prologis’ scale and expertise have enabled the company to forge partnerships with trusted suppliers, allowing them to offer customers easy access to the equipment they need at attractive rates. Across Europe, 108 customers have already signed up to their solar energy systems, amounting to 78 megawatt (MW) of solar energy production annually. This is enough to meet the energy consumption needs of 20,000 households and to avoid 32 kilotons of CO2 emissions a year. Prologis aims to add another 150MW of solar panels across Europe by 2025 which would generate sufficient energy for 38,000 households and reduce CO2 emissions by 61 kt annually.

Ben Bannatyne, President of Prologis Europe, said: “Our global scale really enables our customers to benefit from innovative, tested procurement services and products, at attractive market rates. The understanding we have of our customers’ space and business needs, together with our established network of suppliers, allows us to provide solutions which go far beyond the real estate. Via Prologis Essentials Marketplace, our customers can take advantage of products like ‘smart’ LED lighting (helping improve employee wellbeing, energy consumption and costs), solar energy systems, racking and forklifts, through managed processes to help with warehouse set-up or upgrading existing operations.”

In addition to Prologis’ Essentials Marketplace in Europe, the next phases of the platform will include Facility Management and Customer Resource services, to provide the highest care in all customer interactions.

Prologis, a global leader in logistics real estate, has launched ‘Prologis Essentials Marketplace’ for Europe, a handy procurement platform that helps customers quickly set up, integrate or upgrade their warehouse operations with sustainable and cost-saving technologies, products and services. This online resource offers a raft of key warehouse interior products and fully managed instalment processes including Prologis SolarSmart, a green energy generation system that helps customers reduce the impact of their operations on the environment. Other products available include warehouse racking and forklift solutions.

Prologis’ scale and expertise have enabled the company to forge partnerships with trusted suppliers, allowing them to offer customers easy access to the equipment they need at attractive rates. Across Europe, 108 customers have already signed up to their solar energy systems, amounting to 78 megawatt (MW) of solar energy production annually. This is enough to meet the energy consumption needs of 20,000 households and to avoid 32 kilotons of CO2 emissions a year. Prologis aims to add another 150MW of solar panels across Europe by 2025 which would generate sufficient energy for 38,000 households and reduce CO2 emissions by 61 kt annually.

Ben Bannatyne, President of Prologis Europe, said: “Our global scale really enables our customers to benefit from innovative, tested procurement services and products, at attractive market rates. The understanding we have of our customers’ space and business needs, together with our established network of suppliers, allows us to provide solutions which go far beyond the real estate. Via Prologis Essentials Marketplace, our customers can take advantage of products like ‘smart’ LED lighting (helping improve employee wellbeing, energy consumption and costs), solar energy systems, racking and forklifts, through managed processes to help with warehouse set-up or upgrading existing operations.”

In addition to Prologis’ Essentials Marketplace in Europe, the next phases of the platform will include Facility Management and Customer Resource services, to provide the highest care in all customer interactions.

Huboo, a warehouse fulfilment service, has partnered with Carlsberg to fulfil orders of their limited edition ‘Champions Can’ in celebration of Liverpool Football Club’s premier league victory last season. For the first time ever, the iconic green Carlsberg can has gone red and features LFC’s crest, player signatures and replaces the words ‘1847 onwards’ (a reference to Carlsberg’s 173 year heritage) with the words ‘Champions, 2020 onwards’.

Based in Bristol, Huboo provides multi-channel fulfilment and storage services for over 450 businesses across the UK, Europe and the US, from SMEs to large organisations. With anticipated demand for the limited edition beer cans high, Huboo saw 6,300 cases, with each pallet containing 1,512 cans, arrive into their warehouse last week ahead of the football season starting on the weekend.

Martin Bysh, CEO of Huboo, says: “Our set-up is completely unique in that we have self-contained ‘micro-hubs’, which replicate the inputs, processes and outputs of a complete warehouse within a few hundred square feet. This approach means we can easily respond to new clients by simply erecting new micro-hubs quickly and easily. Depending on stock volume, we can give a client one, two, three or more micro-hubs so all their products are together, in the same place, managed by the same Hub Manager. Think of it like lego bricks being put together. This approach gives us enormous flexibility when it comes to responding to new business enquiries and enables us to meet the needs of even the most established brands. We picked, packed and shipped over 150,000 pre-ordered cans ahead of the weekend, in time for when the football season started.”

Paul Morris, Head of Sponsorship and Brand Activation at Carlsberg, said: “Carlsberg has been an official partner of Liverpool FC since 1992 and we are now delighted to raise a glass to the Premier League Champions with our limited edition celebratory cans. We have teamed up with Huboo to manage the fulfilment of these cans going direct to Liverpool fans all over the UK, and in time for the start of the new season.”

This latest partnership with Carlsberg comes after Huboo saw 50% month-on-month growth during the pandemic as consumers turned to online shopping and ecommerce boomed. Prior to the lockdown, the fast growth tech business was already experiencing 100% quarter-on-quarter growth, with their customer base quadrupling year-on-year.

Huboo, a warehouse fulfilment service, has partnered with Carlsberg to fulfil orders of their limited edition ‘Champions Can’ in celebration of Liverpool Football Club’s premier league victory last season. For the first time ever, the iconic green Carlsberg can has gone red and features LFC’s crest, player signatures and replaces the words ‘1847 onwards’ (a reference to Carlsberg’s 173 year heritage) with the words ‘Champions, 2020 onwards’.

Based in Bristol, Huboo provides multi-channel fulfilment and storage services for over 450 businesses across the UK, Europe and the US, from SMEs to large organisations. With anticipated demand for the limited edition beer cans high, Huboo saw 6,300 cases, with each pallet containing 1,512 cans, arrive into their warehouse last week ahead of the football season starting on the weekend.

Martin Bysh, CEO of Huboo, says: “Our set-up is completely unique in that we have self-contained ‘micro-hubs’, which replicate the inputs, processes and outputs of a complete warehouse within a few hundred square feet. This approach means we can easily respond to new clients by simply erecting new micro-hubs quickly and easily. Depending on stock volume, we can give a client one, two, three or more micro-hubs so all their products are together, in the same place, managed by the same Hub Manager. Think of it like lego bricks being put together. This approach gives us enormous flexibility when it comes to responding to new business enquiries and enables us to meet the needs of even the most established brands. We picked, packed and shipped over 150,000 pre-ordered cans ahead of the weekend, in time for when the football season started.”

Paul Morris, Head of Sponsorship and Brand Activation at Carlsberg, said: “Carlsberg has been an official partner of Liverpool FC since 1992 and we are now delighted to raise a glass to the Premier League Champions with our limited edition celebratory cans. We have teamed up with Huboo to manage the fulfilment of these cans going direct to Liverpool fans all over the UK, and in time for the start of the new season.”

This latest partnership with Carlsberg comes after Huboo saw 50% month-on-month growth during the pandemic as consumers turned to online shopping and ecommerce boomed. Prior to the lockdown, the fast growth tech business was already experiencing 100% quarter-on-quarter growth, with their customer base quadrupling year-on-year.

Logistyx Technologies, a leader in transportation management for parcel shipping, has announced a new agreement to continue partnership with Manhattan Associates, a technology leader in supply chain and omnichannel commerce, as the company releases the latest enhancements to shift its product to the cloud.

As an independent Manhattan Value Partner since 2012, under this new containerised model, Logistyx now offers the ability to upgrade to enhanced parcel shipping capabilities more cost-effectively, providing Manhattan customers unlimited access to more than 8,500 global carrier services that will enable rate shopping and shipping execution to any location worldwide. 2020 marks the eighth anniversary of Logistyx’s global partnership with Manhattan, with a successful track record serving as a trusted partner to Manhattan’s Warehouse Management for Open Systems (WMOS), Order Management System (OMS) and Warehouse Management for IBMi (WMI) users, and now Manhattan Active Warehouse Management.

In 2014, Manhattan and Logistyx more closely aligned with a strategic partnership to jointly develop what is now known as an external parcel interface (EPI) to provide their WMOS users access to a much larger parcel carrier network. Logistyx has since deployed its industry-leading TME technology throughout the Manhattan WMOS user community. Together, Logistyx and Manhattan issued a five-year milestone announcement in 2019 highlighting the many successful deployments of Logistyx TME and Manhattan’s EPI.

“Manhattan Associates values our enduring partnership with Logistyx to bring innovative solutions to customers,” said Adam Kline, Senior Director, Product Management at Manhattan Associates. “As an established leader in multi-carrier parcel management, Logistyx’s state-of-the-art cloud technology proved yet again to serve as a quality match with our EPI in delivering a superior global parcel shipping solution.”

As a co-developer of the EPI, Logistyx is helping Manhattan bring a next-generation EPI to the market. “Logistyx and Manhattan’s technology roadmaps with a focus on increased cloud capabilities have often aligned, which has resulted in a successful partnership over the last several years,” said Logistyx President Ken Fleming. “The partnership between Logistyx and Manhattan provides customers a true enterprise-class shipping platform with broader carrier options and the advanced tools to help them ship from anywhere to anywhere.”

Logistyx offers Manhattan customers the ability to better manage their parcel shipping activities with support for a blended carrier strategy and the capacity to deploy an extensive selection of carriers, providing an expanded global footprint for customers to achieve the best value for every destination, delivery time and product.

Zebra Technologies Corporation has announced the results of its ‘Food Safety Supply Chain Vision Study’. The study highlights the views of consumers as well as food and beverage industry decision-makers worldwide from distribution and warehouses to grocery stores and restaurants around safety, traceability and transparency.

Surveyed consumers reported their top food safety concerns include restaurant kitchen and wait staff hygiene, foodborne outbreaks, illness from contaminated food, and food and beverage recalls. More than 80% of surveyed consumers said companies have an important role to play in implementing food safety solutions and an ethical responsibility to ensure the safe handling of their food. 70% said it is important to know how their food and ingredients are manufactured, prepared, and handled, while 69% agreed knowing how their food is sourced is also important.

Given recent food safety incidents and an increased focus on health and wellness, it’s unsurprising both consumers and industry decision-makers are showing a great level of interest in the source, quality and safety of their food. However, a disconnect exists between what consumers believe and what industry decision-makers think. Almost seven in 10 decision-makers say the industry is prepared to manage food traceability and transparency, but only 35% of consumers agree. Furthermore, only 13% of consumers felt the industry was extremely prepared today to manage food traceability and be transparent about how food travels through the supply chain, whereas 27% of decision-makers reported feeling this way.

“Findings from our study show that while the industry is taking measures to ensure a more transparent supply chain, more work needs to be done in order to increase consumer confidence and improve food traceability,” says Mark Wheeler, Director of Supply Chain Solutions, Zebra Technologies. “Businesses naturally have more information available to them but can improve consumers’ faith in their food sources by providing them access to the same information.”

One bright spot identified in the research is the role that technology can play in closing both these gaps in both the short- and long-term. An overwhelming majority of decision-makers acknowledged that investments in traceability-focused solutions will provide them with a competitive advantage by enabling them to meet the expectations of consumers. When asked about the top benefits that technology-based track and trace solutions would provide, six in 10 decision-makers cited risk reductions with proper handling, transportation and storage and tracking product perishability. 41% of industry decision-makers reported RFID tags improve food traceability within the supply chain more than any other technology, yet only 31% currently use them within their own organisations.

Mobile computers, mobile barcode label/thermal printers, rugged scanners and specialty labels and tags will also be key enablers in winning consumer trust and delivering more transparent information to consumers. 90% of surveyed industry decision-makers expect to use rugged handheld mobile computers with scanners, rugged barcode scanners and mobile barcode label/thermal printers within the next five years to digitally manage and track food products and related information.