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Online order fulfilment is complex and brings inherent customer service challenges. Charlie Walker, Marketing Director of Walker Logistics, asks if that means it is easier to make the case for greater automation within fulfilment centres? For third party logistics (3PL) services companies, investment in automation has traditionally been hard to justify: the technology required a relatively high level of financial commitment over an extended period of time before evidence of payback began to app...

Walker Logistics has secured planning for a new 125,000 ft2 warehouse on land south of Membury Services  between junctions 14 and 15 of the M4 motorway in Berkshire. West Berkshire Council granted outline planning permission for the scheme, which will include the warehouse, ancillary office floorspace, as well as an aircraft museum building and associated access, car parking and landscaping last week. The controversial scheme, which was vociferously opposed by locals, will allow the logistics ...

Lloyds Loading List Search our news archive Will Waters | 2021-05-10 09:17:42.0 New UK government figures released reveal many businesses are still overwhelmed by the impact of Brexit, with over 39% of importers reporting they are still struggling with new customs duties and other issues Retailers and other companies that import products from the Far East to the UK are facing major supply chain disruption and increased logistics costs resulting from the global shortage of shipping containers an...

Rare Tea, a company that has sourced the world’s best teas directly from growers and supplied restaurants, bars, hotels and retail outlets since 2004, has outsourced responsibility for the management of its B2B and rapidly expanding B2C supply chains to Berkshire-based e-commerce fulfillment specialist, Walker Logistics. With online sales to the public becoming an ever more significant part of Real Tea’s business model, the company sought a logistics partner with the experience and expertis...

Walker Logistics has said that it experienced a 317% increase year-on-year, in the number of e-commerce orders picked and dispatched. The company has said [...]