Vegonsa improves the quality of its warehousing and distribution logistics
When Vegonsa, the market leader in food retail-ing in the north-west Spanish region of Galicia, started a campaign to supply the whole area more efficiently with food, non-food and drug-store articles, Jungheinrich was involved in the planning from a very early stage. Vegonsa con-centrated the activities of three previous sites in one central goods distribution warehouse that was set up near Santiago de Compostela and thus achieved a long-term improvement in the quality of its warehousing and distribution logistics.
Jungheinrich as the general contractor supplied a central order picking warehouse with a total usable floorspace of 25,000 square metres. The over ten-metre high racks set up on this floor-space can accommodate more than 23,000 pal-lets. This operator handles a daily volume of approx. 2,000 pallets and 150,000 order picked package units that pass over 25 ramps for incoming goods and 50 ramps for outgoing merchandise. The heart of the warehouse con-sists of two automatic high-rack storage and retrieval units with a capacity of 5,000 pallet The ongoing expansion of rentals and leasing
business at the newly founded foreign compa-nies in Ireland, Greece, Singapore and Brazil, is expected to ensure a further positive devel-opment of this business for the coming years.
Our used trucks business was also continuous-ly expanded during last year. For many cus-tomers, professionally reconditioned used trucks with a maker’s guarantee from Jungheinrich in conjunction with attractive financing options represent an interesting alter-native to new trucks in terms of price.
In April 2001, Jungheinrich and an important competitor jointly started up Supralift GmbH &
Co. KG, Europe’s biggest Internet marketplace for used forklifts. The joint venture is develop-ing positively. The company, which meanwhile operates its Internet site in five languages, offers more than 5,000 industrial trucks and 380 registered dealers and branch establish-ments.
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Coop Switzerland swears by Jungheinrich’s competence
In 2001, Jungheinrich won a big order for 250 industrial trucks from Coop Switzerland. Alto-gether, this operator already uses about 800 Jungheinrich trucks. Their deployment spec-trum includes intra-company transports, move-ments of goods into and out of stock as well as the loading and unloading of HGVs. As far as types are concerned, the industrial trucks range from battery-powered pallet trucks and forklifts via order pickers and Retrak® reach trucks through to diesel and LPG powered forklifts. By virtue of its sheer size alone, this fleet is a determining factor for the efficiency of the Coop logistics chain. The company therefore attaches great importance to a reli-able partner who guarantees permanent readi-ness for operation of the individual vehicles.
The reason stated by Coop for the decision in favour of Jungheinrich was the full range of products offered in the field of intra-company logistics including a wide spectrum of services and the most closely knit service network for industrial trucks in Switzerland.
Thanks to this constellation, Coop can always turn to the same partner no matter what ques-slots. These are supplemented by 80
Junghein-rich industrial trucks, by a straight-through store for some 90 fast-turnaround items that is fed by the storage and retrieval units and by the warehouse management system.
The distribution centre works three shifts a day on six days a week to keep some 300 supermarkets daily supplied with merchandise.
Outstanding features of the distribution centre are a requirements-oriented concept as well as efficient IT links between all logistic and administrative processes.
The co-operation between Vegonsa and Jungheinrich is exemplary for the Spanish market. This is substantiated by the large number of visitors from the retailing business.
Within the Erosky Group, which holds the majority of the shares in Vegonsa and numbers among the leading retailers in the whole of Spain, the performance data of the new distri-bution centre are significantly higher than those of the other sites run by the group.
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Foods came into being in 1991 through the amalgamation of various milk and foodstuff producing businesses, whose histories in some cases date back to the 19th century. Today, this company is one of the biggest companies for processing fresh milk as well as being the only national company in this field and can point to sales of more than € 600 million.
The just completed modernisation programme brought a further improvement in the standard of quality. Not only were existing operations brought up to the state of the art but new pro-duction systems were also set up in Victoria, Queensland and South Australia.
Within the framework of this programme, the fleet, consisting of approx. 170 industrial trucks at the approx. 20 production plants, was also modernised. In a first step, Jungheinrich delivered 75 forklifts to National Foods via its representative office, RED Australia. Battery-powered reach trucks Retrak®, battery-Battery-powered three-wheel and four-wheel forklifts, battery-powered pedestrian-controlled forklifts, bat-tery-powered pedestrian-controlled pallet trucks, battery-powered pallet trucks Swift and hand pallet trucks from Jungheinrich are used in many different areas and applications.
tions it may have in connection with intra-company logistics. This applies equally to financing models, to maintenance and service packages and to rental and used trucks required at short notice.
Besides the industrial trucks, Jungheinrich also delivered two fully automatic deep-freeze stores equipped with radio data transmission systems and high-rack storage and retrieval units as well as rack systems for various sites.
These are accompanied by a Full Service con-tract that makes a decisive contribution to the high availability of the industrial truck fleet of Coop Switzerland.
National Foods, Australia:
A partner at 20 sites
National Foods is one of the biggest Australian foodstuffs producers with the core sectors of fresh milk and fresh milk products. National
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all order processing and execution time. The new development and market launch of the mast carriages with 3.0 and 5.0 tons lifting capacity for diesel and LPG powered trucks, which are produced at the Leighton Buzzard plant in Britain, were successfully completed.
In the field of electronic controls and battery chargers, the number of units produced was 7 per cent higher. This increase in the number of battery chargers results from the successful implementation of the concept to supply bat-tery-powered industrial trucks to the customers complete with battery and battery charger.
Under our modern environmental manage-ment, a new hydraulic oil tank system was commissioned at the Norderstedt plant to com-ply with the strict regulations of the Water Resources Act (WHG). This central system supplies oil to the truck production lines via ring pipelines. Further room air conditioning systems with integrated heat recovery and automatic control engineering were installed in accordance with a graduated plan.
The year 2001 saw the start of the Conserva-tion of Resources project for practically instant acquisition of the consumption rate data for electrical energy, gas and water. The project serves to introduce key energy data aimed at