Al Yasra Foods - LPC International

LPC International Limited
Logistics Planning Consultants
Al Yasra Kuwait
New Facility Design
Al Yasra Foods is a leader in providing value-added brand distribution solutions in Kuwait and Iraq with
expanding activities in other GCC territories.
They provide comprehensive distribution and trade marketing services for major international and
regional brands such as Sadia, Al Safi Danone, Lamb Weston and many others. Their reach extends to
every segment of the market be it Modern Trade, Traditional Retail, Food Service or HoReCa.
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Al Yasra Kuwait - New Facility Design
Al Yasra Foods also successfully manages its own Private Label and
licensed brands which together with the brands they distribute complete
the product offering. To complement its market presence with direct
access to households across the country, Al Yasra operates a unique retail
showroom and home delivery network ‘Talabia’ throughout Kuwait.
In 2007, Al Yasra approached LPC International (LPC) to help them with
the next phase of their development. Al Yasra had outgrown their existing
warehouse, and was using temporary stores and third party facilities to
operate from.
Following a review of their operations, the advice from LPC was to look at
a single new multi temperature distribution centre where all the storage
and distribution activities could be centralised. This would enable an
improved service to customers to be delivered and the cold chain to be
better maintained.
It was also recognised that there was an opportunity with a single new
facility to improve internal processes and increase productivity.
When a site had been obtained by Al Yasra LPC undertook a detailed
design study to optimise the use of the footprint and the storage cube and
size the requirement for each of the temperature regimes, these being for
frozen, chill and ambient product. All the other requirements such as the
marshalling areas, offices, amenities and ancillary areas were sized and
designed by LPC and supported with individual building discipline
specifications to enable the client to tender individual aspects of the
facility to the market.
In addition LPC specified the storage systems and mechanical handling
equipment (MHE) taking into account the stockholding requirements to
service customer demands. The fast moving lines with large batch sizes
were to be blockstacked, with medium lines going into double deep pallet
racking and the slow lines into standard pallet racking. Performance
related specifications were then developed for the logistics related
equipment such as racking, MHE, dock levellers and doors to enable Al
Yasra to go out to tender for the procurement of these items as well.
Following the finalisation of the design, the resource requirements i.e
labour and equipment numbers were determined along with the Key
Performance Indicators (KPIs) that could be expected in the operation.
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