ALUTECH Group of Companies is the leader in the door-shutter systems market, and the leading producer of aluminium extrusion systems and sectional doors. The holding brings together 5 production facilities and over 20 sales companies in Eastern and Western Europe. To ensure prompt supplies of the Group's products, the logistics centre ALUTECH Systems s.r.o. was opened in Bor, Czech Republic, 7 years ago.
Over time, with the expansion of the customer base and increased sales of ALUTECH products, it became necessary to increase the volume and capacity of the warehouse. In late 2017, ALUTECH Group of Companies moved operations over to new facilities and launched its advanced logistics centre in Pilsen, Czech Republic. The new centre has an area of 4,300 m², which is one and a half times bigger than the old warehouse.
The move to the new premises will provide ALUTECH Group of Companies and its partners with a number of significant advantages. For example, the well-chosen location of the logistics centre - Pilsen is one of the largest cities in the Czech Republic, and an important industrial and administrative centre - will decrease the time spent on delivering products to customers.
The key indicator of the warehouse's efficiency will be its capacity: the space available for storing long-life products has doubled in size, and the acceptance and batching areas have been expanded considerably. All this will double the capacity of the logistics warehouse and, as a result, significantly increase product traffic.
In addition, the new logistics centre has implemented a number of technical solutions intended to optimise warehouse operations and reduce its maintenance costs. In the near future, there are plans to implement SAP (an automated system for financial and managerial accounting, HR management, and management of other Company business unit activities) and WMS (an accounting and automated warehouse management system that will allow losses occurring in the course of warehouse operations to be minimised).
Thus, the launch of the new bigger logistics centre demonstrates, once again, the high quality of ALUTECH products and demand for them in the Western European market. We are convinced that the new warehouse will be an important step towards the development of mutually beneficial relations between our Group of Companies and our European partners.