ERIKS completes £21 million infrastructure Investment
9 Nov 2022
Industrial products supplier ERIKS has completed its £21 million infrastructure investment, centred on a massive increase in capacity at its fulfilment centre.
The Oldbury Fulfilment Centre of Expertise (FCE), boasting 11,000m2 of warehouse space, dwarfs the firm’s longstanding Halesowen site and has taken 18 months to complete.
Said CEO of ERIKS UK & Ireland David Gillies.
“Our goal was to create an industrial fulfilment centre that sets new standards for our sector. Following this huge investment, we are now able to achieve levels of accuracy, speed and service that have never been seen from an industrial distributor.
“We are now able to pick and pack thousands of components every day with total accuracy and dispatch them, so the customer receives them faster than ever before.”
He added that shipping goods held at the FCE, or from strategic supply partners, straight to customers rather ERIKS’ regional service centre network provided “significant” time saving.
Delivery times had been cut from an average of four days to next day or two days depending on the source.
ERIKS has also spent millions s updating its engineering sites in Cardiff, Southampton and Chesterfield and product technology centres in Barnsley and Warrington.
FCE stats
Size: 11,000m2
Capacity increase: 53%
Vertical lifts: 21
High speed conveyors: 400+ metres
Euro pallet capacity: 11,200 Euro pallets
Pallet capacity increase: 22%
Pick times reduction: 30%
Pick speed: one product/part every 21 seconds
Increases measured against Halesowen site
