Barloworld Equipment distribution facility
As part of the 90-year Caterpillar and Barloworld Equipment partnership, Barloworld Equipment has co-located its warehouse facilities to a new distribution facility, which became fully operational in July 2017. The facility boasts an electronic tracking system that will reduce queues for customers and keep them abreast of their order when they come to the facility to collect spare parts.
The access-controlled 60 000m 2 facility combines areas for both Caterpillar and Barloworld Equipment, with Barloworld occupying a surface of 3 500m 2. As the official and exclusive distributor of Caterpillar products in southern Africa, Barloworld Equipment will be operating the customerfacing portion of the new facility, which will be known as Barloworld Equipment Johannesburg, independently from Caterpillar. The two companies plan to invest in the development of other similar facilities across the region.