COCA Cola Amatil (CCA) recently awarded Dematic an order for a $10 million route distribution system, to be installed in their newly developed Eastern Creek distribution centre.
The Eastern Creek site will consolidate all of CCA’s NSW route distribution business and is part of the overall $170 million Project Jupiter development plan.
The NSW route distribution facility will be one of the largest mixed carton picking facilities in Australasia and will distribute the complete range of CCA’s products, including water, carbonated soft drinks, juices and new alcoholic beverages.
According to Dematic, the company worked closely with CCA in a consultancy arrangement for over 18 months to develop the final system design and distribution solution.
The Dematic system will include automated dock unloading and pallet sortation, an automated dispatch staging system, paperless picking technology coordinated by the company’s PickDirector order management software, and negative carton picking methodology.
CCA’s major projects manager Michael Shirbin said CCA was impressed by the company’s extensive understanding of CCA’s route distribution business.
“During the system development phase, the company conducted on-site trials and tabulated the results into simulations, validating the robustness of key elements in the system design. Based upon projected efficiencies, the new carton picking system is expected to play a key role in CCA’s supply chain network,” Shirbin said.
Key contact:
Dematic
www.dematic.com.au
Add a comment