The plant was put into operation as part of an opening celebration on May 19, 2001. The logistics center will help Deutz to increase significantly its lead in the spare parts business. The company can now accelerate the processing of orders involving only a few spare parts and urgent orders which arrive during the second half of the day. Optimized processes facilitate shorter throughput times for parts. Priorities can be changed at short notice by radio data transmission.
Employees can give priority to very urgent orders with little extra effort.
Improved transport logistics permit direct deliveries to end customers all over the world. Material flow is optimized by linking automated and manually operated warehouse areas, thus reducing order throughput times. A storage capacity of around 12,000 euro-pallets in the automated warehouse areas, almost 10,000 industrial and wire mesh pallets and 70,000 warehouse picking boxes in the manually operated warehouse areas help to handle the high volume of spare parts. This was achieved by extensive rebuilding measures for the fine bin positioning facility at the stacker cranes, and the creation of a four-high stacking system for euro pallets. Another important task is to keep the transport distances as short as possible, despite the long distances in the halls.