Cost reduction analysis
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Success story
Spare parts logistics concept
Agile project approach for short-term layout planning during the search for warehouse real estate
Due to the conversion of a Frankfurt coal-fired power plant into a gas-fired power plant, the existing spare parts warehouse had to be dismantled at short notice and the stored goods completely relocated. A replacement building was not yet available. Parallel to the search for rental properties, Rothbaum was to plan the logistics concept and put the individual trades out to tender.
Thanks to Rothbaum’s expertise in warehouse planning and project management, we were able to stabilize the tight schedule and use the project results for rapid implementation.
Dr. Mark Jacquemin, Head of Logistics Department
Mainova AG
- one of the largest regional energy suppliers in Germany
- supplies around one million people in Hesse and the neighboring federal states with electricity, natural gas, heat and drinking water
- 3,100 employees generate over 4.5 billion euros in sales (2022)
- High availability of spare parts at short notice is essential for security of supply
Services
- Development of a logistics concept for the future storage of spare parts in temporary rental warehouses
- Creation of a functional tender
- Analysis and plausibility check of stocks in SAP and breakdown into different product ranges in the event of unclear data
Results
- Analysis of SAP inventories and material flows
- Dimensioning of the various storage areas (long goods, heavy loads, small parts, pallets and pallet cages)
- Checking different storage types and allocation according to access frequency
- The most important premise: 100% availability
- Layout planning parallel to the object search for a short-term realization
- Tender for technical warehouse equipment
Project description: Spare parts logistics concept for Mainova
Mainova AG operates several spare parts warehouses in the Rhine-Main region to ensure the security of supply of gas, electricity, district heating and water to the population. Due to the conversion of a Frankfurt coal-fired power plant into a modern gas-fired power plant, the existing warehouse had to be dismantled. However, in order to restore supplies at short notice in the event of an incident, all spare parts must be available in a central warehouse. A new building was out of the question due to the tight schedule. Rothbaum was therefore commissioned to plan two temporary rental warehouses and to invite tenders for the warehouse equipment (shelving and forklift technology).
Procedure
Rothbaum worked closely with the Mainova warehouse team to create a planning database with the relevant product range data. Numerous layouts were developed and detailed in joint workshops. The variants were then compared from a technical and economic perspective, the preferred variant was selected and the technical equipment was put out to tender.
Results
Together with the Mainova warehouse team, the master data of the stored goods was enriched and pragmatic assumptions were made in order to obtain a valid database.
Two storage facilities were planned with cantilever, pallet, shelf and floor storage, taking various planning premises into account: Floor load, size of the elevator in the existing building, hall height, fire protection requirements, redundancy and reliability.
Rothbaum drew up a vendor-neutral tender for the logistics equipment on the basis of the Mainova specifications and carried out a technical comparison of the bids received.
The warehouses were occupied in mid-2022 and the warehouse to be dismantled was handed over on time.
Philipp Kappus
Production Manager
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