New goods distribution center opens

Shipment of finished goods is now the location of Seefeld
In the heart of the distribution from right to left: Thomas Creuzberger (Managing Movianto Germany GmbH), Dr. Rainer Guggenberger (Chief Research & Development, 3M ESPE AG), tungsten Gum (mayor in Seefeld), Harald Gadsche (Supply Chain Manager)
In the heart of the distribution from right to left: Thomas Creuzberger (Managing Movianto Germany GmbH), Dr. Rainer Guggenberger (Chief Research & Development, 3M ESPE AG), tungsten Gum (mayor in Seefeld), Harald Gadsche (Supply Chain Manager)

(BUSINESS WIRE) Seefeld, 9/13/2011, 600,000 job positions, the distribution center from 3M ESPE is facing a year and rising. The transfer of goods distribution and transport services to Seefeld has made the logistics of 3M ESPE products faster and more efficiently while protecting the environment.

Are our processes and systems is still the right ones? Answering this question is for the optimal supply chain is as important as for other divisions. With this conviction took the 3M ESPE their logistics concept to finished goods under the microscope, as Peter Cabell, who led the project with Marco Deiss Beck reported. By shifting the distribution of finished goods at Würzburg Kist back to headquarters in Seefeld, the measure could now be completed.

The former ESPE Dental AG had decided in 1999 to outsource their distribution, a decision that the company saved the construction of a new warehouse: The specialized pharmaceutical logistics provider Movianto GmbH took in his camp Kist goods delivery for ESPE in Europe. "Have now, two factors changed radically," said Cabell, "the one we could halve including the use of lean manufacturing and management methods, our stocks, even though revenue has grown since the former restructuring by more than 100 percent. It also means significant increase in goods movements. Second, the ordering behavior of our customers changed significantly. During the 1999 deliveries to 80 percent were performed on pallets, there are now about 75 percent of packages. "



23-person project team

The new distribution center has a total area of ​​2,500 square meters, directly above and beside it there are production areas. With 30 employees have moved from Movianto. "We had good experiences with the distributor," Cabell says, "so it was gratifying to us that the alert was resolved in favor of Movianto. Their long experience and know-how of the project team ranked as one of exceptional value."

23 people in eight functional areas of 3M ESPE and Movianto worked together since early 2010 to realize the reconstruction of the rooms on the status of a pharma-warehouse facility, including adaptation of the IT system and then gradually wind down the physical relocation. The beginning of the approximately 1,000 articles made from the Seefeld production, then it was just to many of the plant in Irvine / California. End of April 2011 had reached the final stage, and in the same month was the last hurdle: the approval of the site Movianto Seefeld to the Medicines Act.

The environmental burden

The relocation of the distribution center to Seefeld has made the logistics of 3M ESPE products faster and more efficiently. And she has other advantages. The environmental influences account for approximately 380,000 kilometers of heavy vehicles per year just to travel between Seefeld and Kist. In addition, a significant amount of unnecessary packaging has been that previously were specifically required for these shipments.

Furthermore, it was achieved through intelligent logistics processes that the traffic on the surrounding villages and towns do not increase.