By Steve Purvis, Operations Director at Bis Henderson Space As the deadline on Brexit moves back to Halloween, corporate attention turns to reassessing the balance of risk to supply chains – the levels of inventory needed to secure supply, the costs of extending contracts, and the potential …
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Space: the final frontier for same-day delivery
As consumers, we all have a desire to receive our online purchase as quickly as possible. Essentially, we want it ‘now!’ Next-day delivery is no longer seen as fast enough and, for retailers, those who offer a same-day service are increasingly winning competitive advantage, writes Steve Purvis, …
Just how prepared for Black Friday are you?
By Nigel Greenslade, Director of BiS spaceXchange UK retailers were sent reeling last November when British shoppers spent online an estimated £810 million in one day, due to a new retail phenomenon imported from the US dubbed Black Friday. According to the UK’s industry association for …
10,000 pallets of shared user space on the M25
BiS spaceXchange, the warehouse brokerage service, has announced the availability of up to 10,000 pallet spaces at a fully serviced, state-of-the-art warehouse just north of the M25 in Hatfield. The secure and fully resourced facility lends itself to short or long-term agreements and is …
Do 3PLs offer the only solution to shared warehousing?
According to the Property Data Report 2013* there is £80bn worth of warehousing in the UK, writes Nigel Greenslade. But, at any one time, how much of it is lying dormant, unutilised? Business strategies change and companies are often left with a significant amount of empty …
