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Компания Samsung Electronics завершила крупный проект автоматизации логистического центра Samsung Russian Distribution Center. Общим управлением проекта занималась дочерняя ИТ-компания Samsung SDS Co. Корейская компания EXE c&t Co была ответственна за разработку и внедрение системы управления двором (YMS), Visibility-системы, интеграционной платформы, внедрение системы управления складом Manhattan Associates WMOS, осуществляла общий логистический консалтинг. Компания «Корус Консалтинг» участвовала в создании дизайна системы Manhattan Associates WMOS, настройке, тестировании, обучении администраторов, ключевых пользователей, разработке отчетов.

UPS has opened a new distribution center at the Calgary International Airport (YYC) to provide businesses with direct access to the U.S. and international markets. The facility, built at a cost of $30 million, is designed to allow local Alberta businesses to tap into global growth markets such as China, India and Mexico.

"Despite the recent recession, Calgary's economy still stands as a growth engine for Canada with many businesses in the area looking to take advantage of emerging markets overseas," says Mike Tierney, president of UPS Canada. "The rise of middle classes in China and India offers great potential to businesses in the Calgary area."

Well, once you see the ideas, the idea of mobile distribution centers seems almost obvious, but that's the result of creating thinking from Amazon.com and Mercedes, in moves that will almost certainly lead to more innovation in this area.

First, to Amazon, for which news broke in late December that it had been awarded a US patent in April for what it calls an "airborne fulfillment center" or AFC.

The AFC is a blimp or airship that is capable of flying at altitudes of up to 45,000 feet and would store inventory that is delivered via drone to customers below.

There are many good reasons for cutting use of electric power in a distribution center, including lower operating costs and reduced carbon emissions, but in some areas of the world, it may be more a matter of absolute necessity.

Such is the case with Adcock Ingram, a South African manufacturer and distributors of pharmaceuticals and over the counter medicines. A few years ago, the company was split out as an independent company again after it had been earlier acquired, and needed to find some additional distribution space as it no longer would use the acquiring company's DCs.

Most agree that in general, distribution center operations are growing more complex, as the velocity  of product flow and scope of what is required to be executed in the DC continue to expand for many companies.

Considering a new automated distribution center? There can be many operational and financial rewards at the end, but it's smart to well understand the many complexities involved in facility design and approval that logistics managers and executives may face in getting there.

That was clearly one of the takeways in an excellent presentation this week by Dalen Mathys-Cook of on-line grocer Peapod and Paul Huppertz, a consultant at The Progress Group, which assisted the retailer with its design for a new DC to support the Northeast market. The two told their story this week at the Material Handling and Logistics Conference in Park City, UT.