PACCAR Parts has officially opened its new Parts Distribution Centre (PDC) in the Brisbane logistics hub of Berrinba, Queensland.
While PACCAR Parts first opened its Brisbane PDC six years ago, a move to a new and much larger facility was required in order to support continued parts growth in the PACCAR dealer network.
As a result, the PDC has expanded from 6,000-square-metres to a 12,400-square-metre facility, including the addition of a large external canopy to ensure preservation of product during the loading and unloading process.
According to PACCAR Parts, the larger facility allows the Brisbane PDC to stock a wider range of part numbers to support dealers and customers while reducing lead times and increasing availability.
“We are already leveraging the benefits of the additional space the new site offers, having increased our inventory holding to improve our parts availability and support customer uptime,” said Paccar Parts Brisbane PDC Manager, Chris Fillingham.
“I would like to highlight the dedication, efforts and determination of the whole team in Brisbane who undertook this warehouse move and achieved it on schedule, whilst maintaining the integrity of our stock when we relocated it, ensuring each part in each location that we moved was counted.”
The expansion project required relocating all racking and stock from the old PDC to the new facility over an eight-week period, with over 16,000 different part locations to move.
During this time the facility remained fully operational, ensuring that dealer service levels were sustained.
Following the move, the new Brisbane PDC has over 20,000 part locations across a mix of racking and bulk floor storage locations, with 3,500 of those locations added during the site relocation through installing new racking aisles, substantially increasing the density of storage locations in existing aisles.
The Brisbane PDC primarily supports 23 dealer locations throughout Queensland and mid–Northern New South Wales.
“I am extremely proud to be a part of this driven and dedicated team who worked tirelessly to successfully achieve our facility relocation, whilst maintaining service levels to our dealer network,” Fillingham said.
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