Industrial Relocation Logistics

Whether it is strictly a manufacturing centre, distribution centre or warehouse facility, Transition’s path to understanding your warehouse facility is to focus on and assess the what.

Our detailed assessment uncovers warehouse sectors, investigates operation style, understanding the flow and more. Our comprehensive examination of your current space considers all the seemingly small things that bear substantial impacts. The Transition team will routinely revisit and consider operational dependencies, system set ups and connections to make our plan flexible to change and ensure your warehouse maintains an uninterrupted operation. We will craft a Logistics plan to compliment your operation.

1.1 Discovery & understanding YOUR Warehouse Operation

The Elements:

  • Warehouse type or style eg: manufacturing, distribution, bond etc
  • Areas & sectors within the warehouse
  • Storage types: racking, metal shelving
  • Stock types: pick, bulk, Goods in/out, packaging
  • Technology
  • Systems: Extraction (dust or fumes), ventilation, power, gas, data, refrigeration
  • Restrictions and Operational Challenges

The Deliverables:

  • Comprehensive report detailing current situation
  • Efficiency and improvement recommendations

1.2 Understanding YOUR visionary Warehouse Operation

The Elements:

  • New leased space size & layout
  • Location
  • What does the space come with eg: racking, services, mezzanine, etc
  • Areas & sectors within the new warehouse
  • Storage types: new, reuse, existing
  • Understand systems requirement: Extraction (dust or fumes), ventilation, power, gas, data, refrigeration.
  • Restrictions and site challenges

The Deliverables:

  • Comprehensive report detailing visionary operation
  • Quantify Storage & Stock
  • Workshop relocation options.

2 Quantify volumes moving – Audit

The Elements:

  • Storage volumes
  • Stock volumes
  • Packaging volumes
  • Machinery
  • Equipment
  • Tools
  • Technology

The Deliverables:

  • Database of volumes at time of audit
  • Workshop to rationalise what is to move

3 Estimating Phase

The Warehouse Elements:

  • Volumes for stock & packaging
  • Racking & shelving
  • Machinery, equipment & tools
  • Establish number of stages
  • Specialist technicians
  • Services & Systems
  • Transport & Equipment

The Deliverables:

  • Detailed cost estimate

4 Staging Phase

The Elements:

  • Staging skeleton
    • Warehouse operational or non-operational
    • New warehouse layout sections

Risk assessments:

  • Understanding the new layout
  • Understanding the order of movement
  • Access both sites
  • Necessary preparation details
  • Other functions of work during the move

The Deliverables:

  • Detail for each stage
  • Draft programme of works by sections
  • Contingency plan

5 Engage professional services

  • Engineers, transport
  • Heavy haulage
  • Specialist contractors
  • Forklifts, cranes
  • Specialised equipment

6 Action the plan

  • Delivering the project
  • PM’s on site
  • Daily reporting
  • Continual project assessment