Spendrups Bryggeri uses agile warehousing to protect production, sales and service levels

Industry

Brewery

Challenge

With a production line out of action and no space at its central warehouse Spendrups needed a way to scale-up operations to meet peak demand.

Solution

Iron Mountain® fully managed warehousing and logistics service provides fully compliant secure storage for 7,000 pallets of tinned and bottled drinks.

Value

• Successfully bridged manufacturing challenges
• Zero loss of income
• 24-hour order fulfilment
• Less admin and handling effort

Beverage brewing experts

Spendrups Bryggeri is Sweden’s biggest and most prominent family-owned, independent brewery and the driving force behind brands such as Heineken and other carefully selected beers, wine, spirits, bottled water, cider and soft drinks. Largely automated, supply chain operations are managed from its central warehouse in Grängesberg. Some 45,000 pallets of beverage products are efficiently stacked up to 38 metres high ready for distribution to shops, restaurants and the state-run Systembolaget retail chain. In accordance with just-in-time logistics, pallets are automatically delivered to pick-up points for drivers to load themselves.

Adapting for unplanned delays

With delayed renovation work taking down one of its eight production lines Spendrups quickly needed to find a scalable warehousing solution leading up to Midsummer, a time when people gather to celebrate the summer solstice. “June is a particularly busy period with typically twice as many truck deliveries,” says Jimmy Nylander, Operations Manager at Spendrups Bryggeri. “Normally, it’s not a problem but lost production capacity meant we had to build up a large buffer supply of tinned and bottled drinks. However, we’d run out of storage space at our Grängesberg facility.”