MALORG Consulting designed a new small parts warehouse for the Tiexi (China) site on behalf of the BMW Group. The background to the project was the establishment of logistical prerequisites for a further expansion stage of the supply structures with regard to the requirements of WPS-optimized production and a steadily increasing variety of variants as well as the doubling of the number of vehicles. The planned variant is designed to build up to 100,000 vehicles per year and can be expanded.
Success stories
Concept and detailed design with tendering for a KLT assembly supply warehouse
27. May 2022, Reading time: 1 min 58 second
Concept and detailed planning
- The project is divided into work packages: Analysis of planning premises, comparison of scenarios, selection of variants, preparation of tender documents
- Determination & definition of control strategies
- Consideration of belly lines in China & impact on BMW standards
Simple processes, simple control
for assembly supply resulted in local requirements:
- optimal support of the assembly processes through minimum gripping and travel shares and value-added optimized supply
- simple and robust processes, simple control without ERP interface
- Decoupling of route and retrieval orders to avoid congestion or obstruction and to maximize retrieval performance
Working out the preferred variant
- -Goal: modular design of the system to allow for expansion.
- Result: standardized provisioning concept
- Pick-to-belt system with pick label from SAP and sorter for 2-step picking and route sortation