London, UK: Digitalisation and automation are the tools to handle tough times and the theme for the UK Warehousing Association’s conference next month.
Warehousing has been revolutionised with warehouses more sophisticated offering complex value-added services. “This new landscape and the fresh set of challenges it brings is driving a predicted surge in digital transformation over the next decade, bringing fundamental changes to the warehouse operations of the future,” Clare Bottle, chief executive, UKWA says. “For warehouses to survive these tough times and thrive in the longer term, there is no longer a choice but to embrace digitalisation and automation.”
Delegates to the UKWA National Conference, sponsored by Nulogy, will hear from experts in digitalisation and automation within the warehousing industry, learn what is possible, what is affordable and what the latest technology can do to support success, Bottle says.
Speakers include Richard Potter, chief technical officer, Microsoft Services UK, James Wroath, chief executive, Wincanton, Rueben Scriven, analyst, Interact Analysis.
Speakers from from the world of logistics include Lydia Warren, senior director planning – EU packing, Lego, and Stephen McGuirk, head of warehouse operations for Vitabiotics.
Dr Walter Boettcher, head of research and economics, Colliers, Chris Southworth, secretary general, International Chamber of Commerce, and Will Laing, logistics analyst, commercial research, Savills will deliver key note speeches.
UKWA National Conference
Digitalisation and automation: tools for tough times
Date: 7-8 March 2023
Venue: Crowne Plaza, Stratford-upon-Avon.uk
