Project Background
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Inc, was founded on January of 1998. The company formerly known as IBM Technical Product (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd located in Futian bonded zone, Shenzhen. Due to the strategic integration between Hitachi and IBM, the company has been renamed as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Inc in 2003. With the efforts of all staff and the support of relevant government departments, the company can keep a steady growth and has received numerous honors. It now has more than 1000 employees. About 12% are managerial and technical staff and 91% of them have educational background in bachelor degree or above. The company mainly engaged in manufacturing, processing and market data storage products including, parts of computer hard disk. To cope with the business development and expansion of production line, the company needed to set up a modern logistics center and invited BPS as a consultant for this project.
Project Summary
BPS introduced the concept of “design from inside out” for developing the logistics center. Firstly, BPS conducted an in-depth study and site visit to review the operation flow and functional division within the building. After the design of different functional division, and to ensure the coordination between operation flow and warehouse space, BPS has determined the location and the size of different division in the next step. In this project, BPS made use of different tools and techniques for the design process such as industrial engineering techniques, statistical tools, material handling and storage system optimization.
Investment Term
After conducting an in-depth site visit, the project team of BPS analyzed all the information collected and made use of advance tools and techniques to figure out the best-fitted solution for Hitachi. After implementation of the design plan, the operation efficiency and the utilization ratio of warehouse space have been increased, while the operation time and logistics cost have been reduced. The newly warehouse design definitely strengthens the competitiveness of the company and provide a support for increasing market share.