Siam Makro yesterday officially opened a Bt500-million cross-docking distribution centre in Ayutthaya's Wang Noi district to enhance its supply-chain performance and speed up the delivery process from suppliers to all Makro branches across the country.
Cross-docking favours the timely distribution of freight and better synchronisation with demand, where the distribution centre acts as a high-throughput sorting facility. It is normally dependent on trucking.
Siam Makro's 27-rai facility, located in T Park Industrial Estate and with 15,000 square metres of space, will be a distribution centre for consumer products and dry food.
"Our new distribution centre can help our trading partners to reduce the product distribution costs to various branches, and it can make the distribution process more speedy and convenient. At the same time, all Makro branches can improve their inventory circulation system and shorten the lead time," said Suchada Ithijarukul, president of Siam Makro.
Initially, the distribution centre can support up to 50 branches, with scalability to 60 branches in the future. The centre will have no spare inventory, as all distribution will be handled on a daily basis.
"Therefore, inventory in all branches can be cut down and the operating costs on management can be controlled, which subsequently enables our customers to buy products at cheaper prices," said Suchada.
With automated warehouse management and the logistics systems of DHL Supply Chain, the incoming and outgoing process generally will be completed in less than 24 hours, with the speediest turnaround being three hours. The products will be readily available to be distributed to every branch of Makro throughout the country by more than 250 container trucks.
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