McAlpine : Smart Storage Use
McAlpine : Smart Storage Use
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239 term is predominantly spare parts . We ’ re talking about very small bits and pieces in storage and everything else is quite transitory ,” he clarifies . “ We might have 20 refrigerated display cases today and those might be gone tomorrow . Then , the day after that we ’ ll have a bunch of trough freezers on their way to a different supermarket . The transformation I ’ m overseeing right now is based around ensuring that this facility is able to manage a transient and ever-changing size and volume of cargo .”
The nature of this cargo can also prove challenging , Laird notes . Earlier in his career , he was part of the procurement function of one of New Zealand ’ s major beverage distributors . “ Slinging beer and wine , for example , is easy because there ’ s standardised sizing pretty much across the whole world . It ’ s usually 672 750ml bottles of wine to a palette , or twice as many if you ’ re dealing with 375ml cans or bottles and if you buy and sell X-amount of wine , you know within a few millimeters how much space that ’ s going to take
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