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Warehousing

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Fox’s Biscuits – Warehouse Design

Over the years Fox’s Biscuits had seen more and more need for storing goods off-site, away from their main warehousing facilities. They asked The Logistics Business to help understand the problems and come up with recommendations for minimising the need for off-site storage.

In the past this had been a problem during peak periods only, but with growth in the business these high levels of outside storage were causing inefficiencies as well as unacceptably high costs and the company saw that the answer was to find ways of increasing capacity at its main site through new logistic strategy.

We began by bringing together the data that would allow us to understand the business requirements. This was found from a range of sources and was used to develop a model of the business, taking into account various factors related to the manufacturing processes and the distribution network. An important consideration within the model was the expected growth in the business so that storage and throughput requirements could be predicted for up to five years ahead. The modelling and analysis of the range of some 250 products lines showed that there would be a requirement to handle up to 200,000 pallets per year and that a storage requirement of double the existing capacity would be necessary. This, together with a wide range of other information, allowed us to compare a number of options for the business.

A number of options for storage and handling facilities within the existing warehouse building were considered but none of these could meet the required capacity. We therefore looked at the requirements for extending the building and showed that a 50% increase in building footprint, combined with a move to narrow aisle storage and retrieval would be able to meet the requirements. We discussed the options with the Company’s project team and hence prepared agreed schemes for the extended warehouse. This included detailed CAD drawings of the layouts and truck specifications. Further work was carried to look at IT requirements for the warehouse and to consider the interfaces with the Company’s SAP installation.

United Biscuits Warehouse Management System

Flow 13 million product cases a year through a new distribution hub for United Biscuits? Up and running in just 11 weeks? Now you might think that's plain crackers...
Top of the list of objectives for the Ashby-de-la-Zouch operation was to integrate the Jacob's, McVitie's and KP product ranges in a single facility for the UK business, in support of the existing MDC operation at Ashby. The 310,000 pallets of Jacob's products being distributed each year were delivered separately from other UB products, meaning inconvenience for customers and additional costs and complications for the business.

The opening of the ADC would solve this. The stock ordering and customer service systems for both Jacob's and UB products had to be aligned together, customers had to be informed, the stock distribution systems at both the MDC and the ADC had to be revised and new distribution plans prepared to achieve combined deliveries in the same vehicle.