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Daifuku
Risk Management
With around 2,600 stores in Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, ICA Group is a major food retailer. As part of a strategic commitment to lean supply chain principles, the company recently decided to replace three warehouses in southern Sweden – at Arlöv, Helsingborg and Växjö – with a single state-of-the-art facility near Helsingborg.
The build project for the new warehouse has been given to Daifuku Europe, a leading European supplier of high-tech supply chain and warehousing systems. At ICA’s 55,000 square metre site, Daifuku is building a highly automated solution that includes 40 automatic stacker cranes, case sorting machines and automatic layer pickers. In order to provide an appropriately advanced warehouse management system, Daifuku has partnered with Consafe Logistics for the provision of its SattStore solution.
A key component of the new warehouse will be the Daifuku STV (Sorting Transfer Vehicle) pallet sorting system. This system – which handles pallets weighing from 100-3,000 kilograms – is capable of sorting and distributing up to 1,000 pallets per hour on a single line.
When the project is handed over in 2007 it will be one of the most advanced warehouses in Europe. Creating such a technologically advanced warehouse facility is a hugely complex undertaking, with myriad risks inherent in the process. To help identify and protect against any risks, Daifuku engaged Davies & Robson as Risk Consultants for the project.
The risk assessment focus has so far been on the complex simulations of the automated distribution centre, and the specification of the IT system that will run this huge complex, automated facility, but the overall Risk Management service provided by Davies & Robson will eventually encompass all aspects of the build.
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