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Lifting the pressure on auto dealers

2023-07-14

More models. More sophisticated. More specialized. That`s today`s auto world. A delight for auto owners, but a headache for outlets that need to move and maintain stocks of spare parts in expensive warehouse space.

Patrik Brandt (left) and Morgan Andersson (right) with the space saving Goods Lift MDL-I

[It`s a problem we`ve been trying to solve since the company was founded in the mid-1990s," says Morgan Andersson, Warehouse Manager at Toveks Bil`s multi-floor facility in Lidköping, Sweden. Toveks Bil is a multi-brand group (Audi, SEAT, ŠKODA, and Volkswagen among others) with over 600 employees across Sweden offering new/used auto sales, spare parts, and repairs.

Warehouse at bursting point

[We were having to manage more components with ever faster turnaround, but we were unable to expand our floor space. It got to be a burning issue for us," continues Morgan. The warehouse was using an overhead crane for lifting between floors, but loading and unloading were taking too long and efficiency was suffering badly.

[Worse still, the slow overhead crane was actually causing problems," says Morgan. [It took so long to move the heavy stuff that the goods inwards area would get congested with new consignments. Safety was being put at risk."

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