Poco Loco: Logflow concept study results in building a highbay warehouse

Late August the building of the new, fully automated warehouse of Poco Loco was started.
At the basis of this high-bay warehouse lies a strategic network study where Logflow evaluated various alternative setups for the Poco Loco distribution network. This exercise proved to Poco Loco that the set up of a distribution centered for finished products should be one central in-house automated distribution centre. The available area of ​​6.7 ha on the opposite side of the access road to the current production site along the Rumbeekse Gravier in Roeselare was this an ideal base. In this way, Poco Loco was eliminating the current shuttle transportation costs to the various external warehouses which currently takes place the storage of finished products. Only the frozen end product will be stocked soon even externally.

In the next phase Logflow drew up the functional specifications that Poco Loco has been looking for a possible supplier of this new high-bay warehouse.
During the entire selection process Logflow Poco Loco guides so that all functional requirements, the proposed timing and the investment budget were continuously monitored.

Egemin final was selected as the supplier of the warehouse infrastructure. 11 fully automatic cranes are responsible for the entry and removal of the pallets. In a first phase, the plant a capacity of 42,000 pallets, expand at a later stage to 60,000 pallet places.
The architectural office Partners from Ghent is in charge of the engineering coordination.