NPCIL – Push Back Racking.
Location: Rapp Rawatbhata Via Kota
- Challange
NPCIL’s continual upward required additional inventory space. Additional SKUs introduced to the other plants required an additional storage area. Centralizing the warehouse for all the units in a process to cut costs on man and power.
There were special size of pallets which were earlier kept unorganized one upon the other.
It was difficult to retrieve a particular pallet if required at any time.
- Objective
Increase the storage capacity to four times as there were four plants and all the SKUs were to be centralized.
- Solutions
KOMPRESS introduced the PUSH BACK RACKING SYSTEM for storage of special size of pallets which were kept in a row of four and a column of five on each side of the bay. The unit was four pallet deep.
Length of the unit = 3400 mm
Height of the unit = 3750 mm
Width of the unit = 1890 mm
Size of the pallet = 1600 x 500 x 800 mm
Common aisle space = 3200 x 10200 mm
Total capacity of pallets = 160 nos.
Total utilized space was 66% of the capacity
- Result
NPCIL was able to achieve its requirement of centralizing the warehouse for all the four units.
The warehouse was in a proper organized manner and was able to retrieve any pallet with Ease
