December 17, 2008
3:44 AM
Hello again! This post will be about the ALB trip.
We had a task there - to experience "real-life" logistics operations. However, i thought that the visit to the ALB might also give a peek of army life , while contemplating about my future NS enlistment. Well, it didn't, it was ran by a specialist company; ST logistics.
A talk dished out by an employee gave insights of how advanced the warehouse and distribution processes there were. Its customer, the RSAF demands efficiency in processes as well as land use. Another interesting thing was the variety of product lines stored there.
Moving on, the ALB was indeed a through-flow and there were SKU items ready to fulfill the customer's order near the loading bay. That consignment were duffel bags for those waiting for enlistment in December. The height of the ALB was about 20metres, to accommodate for High racks.
Several storage systems were used such as the mobile racking system, vertical carousel, double deep pallet racking and shelving systems for small item storage for medicinal supplies.
A wall-mounted controller operated the space-efficient mobile rack. The vertical carousel on the 3rd floor was used to store medical supplies like small gauze patches. It was about 10 metre high and it works without the picker seeing the products in the carousel, thus minimising pilferage and damage. The double deep pallet racks had heavier (e.g. tyres) and high throughput items (e.g. shoes) at the lower end. That made sense to what was written on it in the textbook.
There were many Material Handling Equipments (MHE) around, namely, the AGV at the inbound area and, the Pallet AS/RS at the outbound area. However, they weren't in use at that time.
My favourite part of the journey was the advancement in infantrymen equipment and fatigues. One could see how far the RSAF have come.
Well a mystery remains, the 20TEU containers truck were nowhere to be seen.
Anyways, my thanks to ALB staffs for being so accommodating to us.
Labels: ALB trip (24th Nov 08)
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Hello again! This post will be about the ALB trip.