5 additional m2 in the summer 2007 with 11

Shelf Delta 3 at Dourges, South of Lille, a warehouse of 22,000 square metres is out of Earth in the first half of 2006. Specializing in the preparation and shipment of toys for FNAC Eveil and games (EFJ), it deals with every day of 500 to 600 boxes of paint palettes, receives disguises or puzzles to transform in unit packages for individual commands. Flows generated by distance selling traditional by telephone from catalogs paper those from selling online are treated in the same space.

Before Dourges warehouse track day, EFJ had a 10,000 m2 also tool in the outskirts of Lille, Lesquin. But, when was the end of the year with its orders for holiday peak, should complete this internal logistics by storage of eaves subcontracted in Normandy from an outside provider, group release more Dinexis. Despite this, the combination of these means internal and external approach saturation at peak periods.

To deal more effectively with the very strong seasonality of its activity, the distributor of toys decided to own all the logistics and the focus in the North. To better spread the risk and the workload, the site of Lesquin was kept next to the new warehouse of Dourges. The surface of the latter will be increased from 5.5 additional m2 in the summer 2007 with 11.000 m2 of reserves. Toy stocks are shared between the two places, which implies, in peak period, transfers of 17 trailers per day from one to the other.

Transport by waterway

"The objective of this réinternalisation of logistics is to keep a better control of the technical, human factors, operations and monitoring quality, regardless of changes in volumes," says Benoît Toutlemonde, logistics Director. EFJ has signed an agreement on working time which allows a weekly range between 21 and 48 hours with his staff. In addition, the company widely uses temporary contracts. At Dourges, numbers are multiplied by four year, $ 60 to 250 people. "Lille provides a pool of employment which allows to find the necessary reinforcements," said the Manager.

The two sites represent a key joint in the supply chain by providing storage, picking, preparation of orders, the setting under package then the expedition. Upstream, the goods from suppliers half comes from Asia and arrives by the ports of Antwerp and Dunkirk. Maritime containers are almost wholly transferred by waterway. EFJ was the first loader to use this modal Dourges possibility.

The new warehouse is equipped with the latest generation of automated channels provided by Cuich, an industrialist in the area. The commands from the two sales channels are transferred by (the central computer system) ERP software of management of the warehouse, which saves each moving object with bar codes.

The chain, which winds through the warehouse, led plastic trays containing of listings and stop at the "stations" corresponding to the areas where employees of the picking must find toys. Each client command on average 5.5 different products, and each tray can hold up to 8 commands. Once completed, the containers continue their way up to the packaging area where the lots are immediately reconstituted by client and the printed invoice. The computer knows the weight and size, consistency and the form of toys and offers the right size carton or envelope bubble.

The 34 posts of the packaging lines can produce up to 16,000 packages per day. These packages are then automatically directed to be reunited in pallets for carriers. Half hand to relay the Sogep package, the specialized subsidiary of PPR, a third group is shipped stationed Colieco, the remainder is between Colissimo, Chronopost and various other carriers.