In order to improve the quality and speed of work, the warehouse for containers, crates, and perishable products has been renovated and expanded and now covers 18,85 thousand square metres. The warehouse is equipped with an automatic distribution line with a designed capacity of around 9 000 packages per hour. An increasing number of goods are being distributed automatically. It is now not only perishable products that are sorted, but also alcoholic beverages, fruit drinks, long-shelf-life groceries, some fruits, and vegetables. The automatic product distribution line has increased work efficiency and products are delivered to stores much faster.
The total area of the company’s RIVONA warehouses in Kėdainiai, Alytus, and Šilalė is about 100,000 square meters.
In Kėdainiai, the total area of warehouses is almost 80,000 square meters. The total designed capacity of the warehouses is close to 6,000 euro-pallets per day, and the designed storage capacity is about 48,000 euro-pallets. More than 15,000 types of goods are stored in the warehouses. The average number of employees in the entire warehouse complex and logistics centre is 320.
In 2012, a new Yard Management System was implemented. With its installation, suppliers and carriers register the arrival time of their transport in the warehouse in advance and are assigned a specific ramp at a designated time. The Yard Management System makes unloading operations much more efficient and allows carriers to plan their work schedule more accurately.
In 2021, a compactor for wastepaper, polythene film and PET waste was added to the warehouses, thus increasing work efficiency.
In 2022, a new vegetable packaging line was installed with processing equipment (potato brushing, onion peeling) and an automatic function for placing packages in transport containers (line capacity – 64 packages per minute, package weights 2 and 2.5 kg). Thanks to this line, dirt is removed from potatoes and excess onion peels are eliminated. The consumer is provided with higher quality products. The new line cost the Company about 1 million euros. In 2023, additional equipment was added to the packing line to fill vegetables into 10 kg packs.
In 2022, a solar power plant with a capacity of 1800 KW was installed on the warehouse buildings.
"Rivona" utilizes the latest technologies in its operations, including radio frequency identification (RFID) equipment, warehouse management systems, and modern supply chain planning tools. The company consistently improves its warehouse management system and implements new logistical solutions.
“Rivona” is taking a significant step in the field of digitization and automation of logistics, as a modern automated product sorting and storage system is being installed in the warehouse of dry, long-life goods. The new decision will affect the entire logistics system. The speed of storing and sorting goods will accelerate by about 2 times, and the warehouse area will be used much more efficiently. With new equipment and advanced technologies, the work will be done more quickly, errors in sorting goods will be reduced, and all this will lead to lower logistics costs and, accordingly, the final price of the goods for the buyer. After the modernization, the storage area will be used about 3 times more efficient than presently. The system being implemented will allow to automate many of the processes that are currently performed manually: receiving, transporting, lifting to racks, and transferring to assembly areas.
All the activities of the automated warehouse will be managed by an artificial intelligence-based system.
In the near future, “Rivona” plans to automate the last stage of the warehousing chain – the palletizing of goods selected for shipment to the stores. To achieve this, it is necessary to standardise the product boxes.
The Lithuanian Logistics Association (LLA) named UAB "Rivona" the winner of the competition for achievements in logistics in 2017. Every year, LLA traditionally awards companies and projects that stand out for their uniqueness, innovation, and importance to Lithuania in terms of logistics. The award was given to the company for the launch of a product sorting line in Kėdainiai, which cost 5.5 million euros.
The address of the Kėdainiai warehouse is:
Pramonės Str. 19
Kėdainiai, LT - 57241
Lithuania
E-mail: kedainiai.administratore@rivona.lt
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