DIAGEO, a major alcoholic beverage company, has opened a new warehouse in FM Logistic’s 50,000 sq m logistics centre at Dudeștii Noi, near Timisoara, Romania. The warehouse will serve 12 markets: Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Moldova, Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia. This makes it one of Diageo’s largest warehouses in the European Union and the largest in Eastern Europe.
“After opening the warehouse in Timisoara, DIAGEO will considerably shorten the delivery time for its orders. On weighted average, DIAGEO will reduce lead time for all 12 countries from 28 to 2 days, so by 93.0%”, stated Michael Holm, General Manager Diageo Eastern Europe.
The new warehouse is the result of cooperation with FM Logistic, which operates a 50,000 sq m multicustomer logistics centre in Timisoara. FM Logistic states their warehouse space will be extended, and the annual volume of the tax warehouse will exceed 30,000 pallets.
FM Logistic claims about 12.6m litres (and over 20.0m bottles) will be sent to and from the new warehouse per year. The facility is said to be equipped with the Global Diageo Track&Trace system, allowing Diageo to track every bottle from the production to distributors in each country, who can also track bottles further to customers.
Source: FM Logistic
