Coca-Cola Amatil Case Study

Mentone, Victoria
Warehouse Fitout - Automated System - Electronic Monorail System - Pallet Racking

The Mentone Automated DC can store over 36,000 pallets, which equates to 2.3 million cases of Coca-Cola, or around 35 million beverage containers. Tracey Wagner - Distribution Centre Manager, Coca-Cola Amatil
CCA is one of the largest bottlers of non-alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages in the Asia-Pacific region and one of the worlds top five Coca-Cola bottlers. CCA employs more than 15,000 people and has access to more than 265 million consumers through over 700,000 active customers. CCA has operations in five countries (Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea) manufacturing, selling and distributing a diversified product portfolio including carbonated soft drinks, water, sports and energy drinks, fruit juice, flavoured milk, coffee and packaged ready-to-eat fruit and vegetable products. As they have both, a diverse range and extremely large quantity of products, APC Storage Solutions were required to impliment one of their most elaborate storage systems to date. From the many choices of layout given by APC, an Automatic Storage and Retrieval System was chosen. This consisted of an Electric Monorail System, Pallet Racking with over 3,000 avaliable pallet locations, Pallet Flow lanes that are 14 pallets deep, Pallet Live Storage and an empty pallet handling system. This has resulted in a total storage capacity of over 36,000 Pallets, which equates to 2.3 million cases of Coca-Cola, or around 35 million beverage containers. The facility also has the output capability to process up to 280,000 cases each day. When compared to Coca-Cola Amatils previos distribution centre (Clayton, VIC) there is a vast improvement in accuracy and efficency. This is as the picking accuracy increased from 95% to 99.8%

APC Case Study - Coca-Cola Amatil Mentone - Warehouse Fitout

The new Mentone DC, and the people working here, are the key elements in achieving the best possible service to our customers everytime. Tracey Wagner - Distribution Centre Manager, Coca-Cola Amatil

It is a vast improvement upon our old warehouse in Clayton, and is setting a new benchmark for DCs nationally. Tracey Wagner - Distribution Centre Manager, Coca-Cola Amatil
By using an Automated System, employee numbers were dropped from 150 to 70, as the storage system does most of the work, however the output was increased by over 300%. As Tracey Wagner stated It is a vast improvement upon our old warehouse in Clayton, and is setting a new benchmark for DCs nationally. This clearly shows the potential increase in productivity and accuracy that an automatic storage system can make to any factories output, and the versatility of the system types that APC can deliver to ensure our clients storage systems can be customised to suit their every need. Many companies out there claim to offer the best in racking, stacking and storage. There is one thing that makes us different. In fact, there are lots of them. They are our people. We pride ourselves on the relationships we build with our clients. It is our way of ensuring they get the best possible storage and handling solutions for their needs. For over 40 years, APC has grown to become one of Australias leading companies specialising in the design, manufacture and installation of warehouse and office storage systems. We are a dedicated team that are proud of our fit out for Coca-Cola Amatil, Mentone Victoria and are prepared to prove ourselves further in the future. In order to take our business to the next level while maintaining what makes us unique we need to stay focussed on people. If we do that, it will stack up to a prosperous future for us all. Our people. They really stack up.

APC Case Study - Coca-Cola Amatil Mentone - Warehouse Fitout

APC Case Study - Coca-Cola Amatil Mentone - Warehouse Fitout

The new Mentone DC, and the people working here, are the key elements in achieving the best possible service to our customers everytime. Tracey Wagner - Distribution Centre Manager, Coca-Cola Amatil

APC Case Study - Coca-Cola Amatil Mentone - Warehouse Fitout

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