Alghanim Industries

LPC International Limited
Logistics Planning Consultants
Alghanim Industries - Kuwait
Master Planning
Alghanim Industries is one of the largest, privately-owned companies in the Gulf region. A multi-national
company in outlook with operations in 40 countries. Alghanim Industries is a multi-billion dollar
conglomerate with more than 30 businesses.
Some of the sectors that Alghamim work in are, not limited to;-Manufacturing of industrial products,
specializing in insulation products and steel solutions, Engineering - commercial and residential (home
automation, air-conditioning and elevators, building management and electro-mechanical solutions),
Automotive - sales and services, Retailing - in consumer electronics, home furnishings, children's furniture,
bathroom fixtures and accessories, Fast moving consumable goods - wholesale and distribution and Food
and beverage.
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Alghanim Industries - Master Planning
In 2007, LPC were retained by Alghanim to develop a Master Plan at their Jahra site in
Kuwait that had an existing Electronics warehouse and a number of small ancillary
buildings already built.
The brief was to conduct a detailed logistics-based study and develop a “MasterPlan”
for the Jahra site to include the existing Electronics Warehouse, a new GTRC
Warehouse, a multi-storey warehouse for New Cars, New Car Preparation (NCP)
facilities, a new warehouse for Furniture and Home Furnishings, plus the potential
(medium-longer term) re-development of the areas currently occupied by existing
buildings, the Archives Store, open AC unit storage, and engineering open storage,
plus such other site facilities as appropriate, and allowing for future growth of each
part of the business.
In conjunction with the site “MasterPlan” LPC were to develop logistics-based designs
for each of the individual warehouses and associated facilities to be built on the site,
to include:GRTC Warehouse – a composite (multi-temperature) warehouse for the storage and
distribution of long-life foodstuffs and health and beauty products.
New Car Warehouse – a multi-storey warehouse to accommodate 4,000 new cars, plus
its associated new car preparation areas.
Furniture and Home Furnishings Warehouse – for the storage and distribution of
assembled furniture, flat pack furniture, plus a wide range of home furnishings and
homewares.
Central Archive – an archiving facility for central records.
External Areas – the planning of all traffic flows, and parking and manoeuvring areas,
for incoming containers and commercial vehicles, plus the companies own fleet of
large, medium and small delivery vehicles and home delivery fleet.
The deliverables included:LPC International’s interpretation of the Company’s business development strategy
and logistics vision.
All the warehouses and other buildings to include provision for further expansion as
appropriate that entailed:- site access and egress for commercial and private vehicles,
traffic and container parking, queuing, manoeuvring areas, all external storage areas
and equipment, plus significant plant and equipment. Traffic routes and vehicle “flows”
around the site had to be considered and the proposed use of the site had to take
advantage of different levels of ground within the site and the phased development of
the site over a ten year period.
Several options of the MasterPlan were developed for detailed consideration and
debate, prior to the selection of a single, preferred, solution.
The preferred solution was determined by modularity and flexibility of the design, ease
of expansion whilst employing best practice material handling systems, vehicle flows
around the site and how the overall development could be built with minimal impact
on current operations over the planning horizon.
The GRTC and Furniture and Home Furnishings warehouses were sized at 20,000m2
and 35,000m2 respectively. The siting of these two facilities allowed for a through flow
operation with a communal yard that would later allow for both facilities to expand to
one another to totally develop the yard and thus entail a ‘U’ Flow operation for both
facilities.
LPC concluded the project by providing detailed drawings for the MasterPlan, the
warehousing facilities in conjunction with Building Performance and Logistic related
Equipment specifications to provide Alghanim with a definitive scoping document to
issue to local Building Contractors.
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