Business Partnerships Producing Future Proofed Solutions Auckland Racking & Shelving Solutions are a partnership and execution-based business, who rely on their out of the box solutions to warehouse challenges from over 20 years of warehousing experience. The brief provided by Huhtamaki to the market was clear: Provide a working solution to Huhtamaki’s day to day inwards, storage, picking and outwards warehousing within their main distribution site, achieving 7000+ pallet locations. Auckland Racking & Shelving Solutions designed and presented their state-of-the-art SOS Semi Automated Shuttle Racking System by SSI Schaefer, this system was able to achieve the solution required by Huhtamaki, it provides a First In, Last Out system which rotates product over e iciently, provides a dense storage solution, which in turn meant Huhtamaki could achieve the number of pallet locations required to future proof their business. Auckland Racking then set to engineering and redesigning the remainder of the warehouse layout, reusing their existing racking on-site. The other providers had said could not be done and that it required all new racking. This is where the expertise of more than 20 years starts to pay o . The excess to requirement pallet racking was purchased by Auckland Racking for reinstating in the market meaning nothing went to waste. A project management plan was also presented, showing how Huhtumaki could operate their current site while working with Auckland Racking changing the layout of the warehouse to create room for the Shuttle System. Auckland Racking provided the end-to-end solution taking care of the consenting process, updating Huhtamaki on all areas of diligence so they could be con ident at each step. The use of automated shuttle robots was new to the team at Huhtamaki, SSI Schaefer having an expert agent on the ground in NZ meaning training was able to be conducted until the team were experts in the use of the system. When issues occurred, Matt, General Manager of Auckland Racking and the SSI Schaefer agent were on site without delay to ensure these were ixed and understood where additional training or the like was needed. Comments from Matt Cowan – General Manager, Auckland Racking & Shelving Solutions: “Providing a complete solution spanning diligence, engineering, importation, manufacture, fabrication, installation, consents and repairs, is a real point of di erence. This Huhmataki project is a good example of what Auckland Racking & Shelving can achieve - we provide bespoke solutions that help our customers to optimise their warehouse space and functionality, which improves productivity and helps grow their business,” he explains. “We have a huge amount of knowledge in our team – we know what will and won’t work – saving our clients time and money.” He says “a big part of this boils down to Auckland Racking & Shelving’s people, who have a ‘can-do’ attitude and high-level skills. This is particularly important in projects involving automation.” Comments from Brett Thirup, General Manager of Sales & Engineering with SSI SCHAEFER explained: “Maximising storage capacity in a warehouse is often a customer’s primary objective but can be hard to achieve. It has been great to provide Huhtamaki with the SSI Orbiter channel storage solution with Auckland Racking. This has helped Huhtamaki’s increase the density of their storage in their existing warehouse.”
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