Warehouse of the Month: Sweet Success
- Topics:
- Logistics Planning
- Tags:
- Distribution Facility,
- Finance,
- Investment,
- Modern Materials Handling Online,
- Pallet,
- Pennsylvania
- Source:
- Modern Materials Handling Online
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Overview: One of Hershey's new distribution facilities relies on a conventional design and smart slotting to quickly deliver chocolates to sweet tooths everywhere. This 1.2 million square foot building, located in Hershey, Pa., is packed full of millions of candy bars as well as cocoa, syrup and many other chocolate delights. The temperature is a bit cooler than your average warehouse, just 55-60 degrees to preserve its precious stock. The humidity is low too. The building contains very little automation. Instead, Hershey uses a more conventional design featuring plenty of pallet racks - enough to store 165,000 pallets. A fleet of 160 lift trucks services the racks, including counterbalanced, reach and walkie-rider units. It is one of three large distribution facilities that the chocolate maker operates in central Pennsylvania. The new building ships directly to customers in the Midwest and Atlantic states, as well as to other Hershey facilities around the country.
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Format: HTML | Date: Jun 2003 | Pages: 1
