Guy pieced me exactly at 8:30 am up and we went to George …
The National Distribution Centre (NDC) of Brammer is the largest storing place they have … - the NDC holds a comprehensive inventory of over 150,000 individual products !
It’s an amazing new and with the best and newest height technical equipment build 80,000 sq big place, which opens in 2001 - so it’s really new ;)
After a coffee George went with me around and showed me, how there whole system works … - really interesting :)
They have over there two vertical circle round cranes, three really long mini-cranes and another big one (which fits EU-pallets ;)
All the cranes are driving controlled by computer, picking the item you need and bring it to you …
The long horizontal cranes are able to store to there left and right … - the whole system works with scanners, which will tell the computer we which item will be needed …
Here are few pictures:
The NDC stores nearly all things and send them finish packed for the customer over night to all the Brammer locations …
- so if any other Brammer location needs items and products they will be over there at the next morning :)
They also build (and a few parts are still in work) a new workshop over there - at this place they will show there employee and also there customers, how there products are working and hat they are for … - this room is brand new =)
Here are also few pictures of there new workshop:
After the tour we went back and finally the meeting went on, after another coffee ;)
It was actually quite interesting - they just spoken about few problems they have to take care about, at the point in there computer system, where they calculate the price for selling there products …
For lunch George invited Guy and me :)
We got really good sandwiches from a small store above the street …
He also bought a pretty good stuff, which I never had before …
- normally we like to put this stuff (pork paste) in Austria on bread at dinner … - but over here they baked it in a cake … - I never thought about a combination of these two things - but it’s tasting good :)
Here is a picture of it:
Actually it was planned, that we will return to our company after this, but a girl in the Sales & Service Centre, which is also in this building had a problem and it took more time to fix it as Guy aspect it will take …(it’s still not fixed ;)
It was so late, when we returned, that we straight drove to George, from where Guy drove me back to my camp site …
So on I had much luck and my working day ends an hour earlier :)
If there is enough time, I will take a look, if I may be able to start today to cut the movie about my journey up to here … - I already found a really nice software, which will cut all the 4800 pictures I took each half minute together to a really short movie :)
On the other hand I still have to write a few e-Mails and I also have to start planning my journey for the next weekend.
Kind Regards
SEBI =)
