What are warehousing solutions?
In the supply chain process, warehousing is an essential step that involves securely storing products until they're ready to be distributed and sold.
Warehousing solutions integrate warehousing services, equipment, and technology tailored to a business’s needs.
Hillebrand Gori designs warehousing solutions that will maximize efficiency and minimize costs. Our solutions provide flexibility for customers looking for short-term warehousing or more permanent solutions.
What are the different types of warehousing?
There are several types of warehouses that suit different businesses.
- Bonded storage: A bonded storage facility is a secure government- or privately owned warehouse for storing products with unpaid duty. For private companies to operate legally, they must acquire a license from the government.
- Cooperative: These warehouses, owned by cooperative societies, offer better rates than other storage options. Cooperative warehouses benefit members who can't afford the standard rental rate.
- Distribution centers: Distribution centers are expansive warehouses that can securely store significant amounts of stock for a short time. These centers facilitate efficient and expeditious product transfer from the supplier to the customer.
- Private: Some resellers and suppliers prefer private warehousing for better control over inventory and product access.
- Public: The government owns public warehouses, which private entities can rent to store products. Small companies needing storage solutions but lacking the resources to maintain a warehouse can benefit from public warehouse spaces.
How do you solve warehouse problems?
Warehousing entails a lot of complexities and potential problems.
To solve warehousing problems, you must first identify them.
The most common include:
- A disorganized layout: Poor inventory placement can lead to higher operational costs, increased errors and slower retrieval times.
- Inadequate inventory and order management: Incorrect orders, product shortages and lost sales are just a few examples of the consequences of insufficient inventory and order management.
- Ineffective damage controls: In warehouses — especially those with massive inventories and powerful equipment — the potential for damage is high. So, it’s essential to have an effective strategy in place to mitigate any potential losses due to damage.
- Poor readiness for seasonally high demands: Having the right type and amount of inventory during the busiest times is critical for warehousing success.
- Redundancies: This occurs when you do warehousing tasks more than once, leading to unnecessary costs. Streamlining warehousing processes and implementing the best technologies can help you cut labor costs while increasing productivity.
Warehousing solutions: combining technology with infrastructure
Hillebrand Gori strategically located most of the new facilities the heart of key wine regions, such as:
- Barcelona (Spain)
- Melbourne (Australia)
- Cape Town (South Africa), and
- Verona and La Spezia (Italy)
Additionally, we have expanded our presence by opening a warehouse in Incheon (South Korea), one of the fastest growing wine markets in the world.
In order to optimize the transportation efficiency, the new warehouses are well connected to ports, rail-hubs and airports.
"Hillebrand Gori operates more than 50 warehouses, conveniently located near wine production and large consumption regions", says Marc Heeren, heading the Integrated Logistics Solutions business at Hillebrand Gori.
“Our continuing investments in the development of transportation networks and warehousing footprint ensures we maintain a seamless fit with the needs of our customers in the wine, beer and spirits market”, says March Heeren, head of integrated logistics solutions at Hillebrand Gori.
Heeren noted that beverages like require special care. He says you must treat wine with “real expertise and precision” to preserve its quality.
“We therefore complement our global transport network with bespoke logistics solutions, combining our leading technology with a strong physical infrastructure, and most of the expertise and passion of our teams”, Heeren says. “It all comes together to get our customers’ products to the market in the best possible way”.
With this focus in mind, Hillebrand Gori continues to be recognized for its industry-expertise and the tailor-made solutions that it offers to customers in the beverage industry; providing them with the means to expand their business into new markets and bring their warehousing in supply chain management to higher levels of efficiency.
The recently added facilities are all customs-bonded and provide the right conditions for storing and handling beverages. In addition, all sites offer a broad range of value-added services, in order to contribute to getting the product to the market at the right time and under the right conditions.
In addition to global transport and warehousing services, Hillebrand Gori offers a series of forward-thinking services including:
- Custom-fit visibility within the industry
- Supply chain management
- Control tower
- Fourth-party logistics (4PL)
We also offer solutions that enable wineries, producers, importers, distributors and retailers to conceive the benefits of optimized supply chains.
Hillebrand Gori customers additionally have access to live information of their wines through the digital platform myHillebrandGori, which connects customers and suppliers to enable them to monitor inventory levels, orders and shipments, to optimize their production and supply levels according to demand.
