Nevilles UK – WMS

Posted by Jason Tindley on 28-Nov-2017 16:34:16

Project Overview

Having previously supported Nevilles UK in determining a suitable site for their Customer Fulfilment Centre, LPC were retained to identify and help with the implementation of a WMS system to work with their host system SAP Business One that was currently providing basic warehouse functions.

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Topics: Warehouse Management System

Woolworths South Africa - New Facility Design

Posted by Jason Tindley on 07-Mar-2017 16:48:01

 
Woolworths previously operated from their City Deep site in Johannesburg. Over time, and against continually increasing demand for product storage and distribution, the site had undergone extensive alterations to accommodate the growth in the business, to the extent that some parts of the operation were moved and managed ‘off site’. With the site landlocked, City Deep could not physically support business volume growth.

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Topics: Warehouse Design

United Trading Corporation (UTC) Saudi Arabia - New Facilty Design

Posted by Jason Tindley on 07-Mar-2017 16:47:29
 
 
The distribution centre supports the divisions by:- Supplying international and regional branded grocery products to a range of food service and wholesale clients, Distributing processed cheese products and a range of dry goods manufactured and/or packaged by a group company and by providing a complete logistics service for McDonalds in Saudi Arabia, including warehousing and delivery of all their restaurant needs.
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Topics: Warehouse Design

Pietermarizburg Mother Warehouse - Facility Re-Engineering

Posted by Jason Tindley on 07-Mar-2017 16:47:11

LPC International has a long standing history of working with Unilever and were the validation and supporting designs undertaken for the two Mother Warehouses at Pietermaritzburg and Johannesburg.

One of the key design considerations was to determine a structural warehouse grid that was flexible to allow a change of storage from Wide Aisle Racking to Very Narrow Aisle Racking or Shuttle Racking in the future.

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Topics: Warehouse Productivity

Maydon Wharf Production Facility - New Facility Design

Posted by Jason Tindley on 07-Mar-2017 16:46:54
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Unilevers’ Maydon Wharf site in Durban is a production facility for Personal Care, Personal Wash and Laundry (soap bars). The site is laid out around two separate factories, some parts dating back over seventy years. The factories have subsequently been merged to form a single site but still with two separate factories with the emphasis on production and not storage or material flows.
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Topics: Warehouse Design

Johannesburg and Durban Mother Warehouses - New Facility Design

Posted by Jason Tindley on 07-Mar-2017 16:45:52

South Africa is a fast emerging market and Unilevers’ warehousing facilities were experiencing pressure in storage capacity. Following a whole supply chain review Unilever established a need for two new distribution facilities –Mother Warehouses – in Johannesburg and Durban.

Unilever South Africa engaged LPC to analyse and validate the conceptual designs of the two proposed Mother Warehouses (MWH).

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Topics: Warehouse Design

Boksberg Production Facility - Facility Re-engineering

Posted by Jason Tindley on 07-Mar-2017 16:45:33

 

Unilever Boksberg is a laundry product, washing powder, factory site shipping to the Mother Warehouses in Johannesburg and Durban for storage and onward distribution.

Finished palletised product was held in block stack two pallets high in a pre-despatch staging area. This area was to be made available to accommodate the additional planning for some direct customer deliveries with the aim of reducing handling and transport costs. To achieve this, and with a secondary aim of increasing network storage capacity the facility required significantly more palletised storage capacity.

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Topics: Warehouse Productivity

United Food Industries Corporation Saudi Arabia - Facility Re-engineering

Posted by Jason Tindley on 07-Mar-2017 16:45:15

LPC’s approach was to concentrate on the operation, determine the requirements and objectives, optimise the solution and then consider how the building envelope can be altered or extended to accommodate the operation.

LPC started the project with the mapping of the processes, material flows and identifying the requirements at each stage in both production and packing. All of the processes employed were reviewed in terms of function, resource and space requirements. The material flows were sized by unit load moved and overall cube. The existing volumes and throughputs were then uplifted to take account of anticipated growth and future demands over the design horizon which the client had identified. The optimal material flows were then calculated and plotted to minimise movement and handling.

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Topics: Warehouse Productivity

The Sultan Centre Oman - Production Facility Design

Posted by Jason Tindley on 07-Mar-2017 16:44:57

 
Project Overview

The project was to investigate the feasibility of designing and building a central production and logistics facility to supply baked goods to the Oman / UAE region.

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Topics: Warehouse Design

The Entertainment Network - Facility Re-engineering

Posted by Jason Tindley on 07-Mar-2017 16:44:34

 
The bulk capacity review was undertaken in two ways:

•By a site search of warehouses of suitable size in and around Aylesbury
•By looking to expand on the existing site

The most cost effective solution was to extend the existing warehouse by means of a “temporary” building, saving in construction costs and transport and handling of stock to and from a remote site.

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Topics: Warehouse Productivity

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