How much lost time and space is your warehouse configuration costing you?

1st January 2011

Flexibility is the key to an effective warehouse configuration in automotive manufacturing. Because wide aisle racking in warehousing provides several very practical advantages when supporting the onsite logistics of the automotive manufacturing process:

1. Speed of access - more people can access more bin locations at times of high demand.
    
2. Reduces or even removes double handling - because the vehicle unloading components can directly access the location bin from where they are to be stored.
    
3. Increases capacity - because the 'decanting' storage area required for narrow aisles (for reach trucks to unload and VNA trucks to take and store) is no longer necessary. So wider aisles actually create more available space.
    
4. Faster training - narrow aisles need specialist VNA trucks, which need trained operatives. With wider aisles normal reach truck can be used, so 'one truck driver fits all' and less training is required.
    
5. More flexible - so long as the footprint for a wide aisle is set up correctly it means the space in the racking system is more adaptable and bin locations can change to reflect picking activity.

Here’s how the 360 onsite logistics audit and assessment works!

Put us to the test, what have you got to lose?

Contact us for a FREE ‘on site' logistics audit – carried out under a non disclosure agreement - our findings will be reported in full confidence and will provide a detailed analysis of where savings and improvements can be made.

_{There’s only one condition - you must be UK based and be operating in the automotive sector, with a head count of around 25 - 30 or more operating in logistics roles.}