Vinamilk Saigon Dairy Factory Cold Storage Warehouse
⭐Key Features
- •20.5-meter-high double-deep pallet AS/RS for cold storage
- •Integrated Warehouse Management System (WMS)
- •Quadrupled storage capacity compared to the previous system
- •Designed for precision and speed in a critical cold chain environment
- •Maintains strict temperature control for dairy product quality
📊Results & Benefits
- ✓Quadrupled storage capacity
- ✓Greater efficiency in shipping operations
- ✓Reduced shipping lead time
- ✓Enhanced inventory accuracy
- ✓Reduced manual labor
- ✓Optimized order fulfillment
🎯Challenges & Solutions
Meeting growing demand while maintaining precision, speed, and strict temperature control in a cold chain environment.
Implemented a fully automated, high-density cold storage AS/RS integrated with a WMS to streamline operations and ensure product quality.
📝Project Overview
Project Overview
Vinamilk, Vietnam's leading dairy producer, faced the challenge of scaling its logistics operations to meet growing consumer demand. At its Saigon Dairy Factory, the company needed to expand storage capacity, streamline shipping processes, and ensure the highest quality for its perishable products—all within the stringent requirements of a cold chain environment.
The project aimed to transform the intralogistics operations by replacing or augmenting manual cold storage methods with a high-density automated solution. The primary objectives were to achieve significant gains in storage density, operational efficiency, and inventory accuracy while maintaining the precise temperature control essential for dairy products.
Technical Solution
Cold-Environment Automated Storage/Retrieval System (AS/RS)
The core of the solution is a double-deep pallet AS/RS designed specifically for cold storage operations. The system stands 20.5 meters high, utilizing vertical space to maximize storage density within the facility's footprint. The double-deep racking configuration further increases storage capacity by allowing two pallets to be stored per shelf position depth.
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Key Features
The 20.5-meter-high double-deep AS/RS provides an extremely high-density storage solution, which was crucial for quadrupling the facility's storage capacity without a proportional increase in building footprint.
The integration of a comprehensive WMS with the physical automation creates a seamless digital-physical workflow, enabling optimized order picking, accurate inventory tracking, and efficient shipping preparation.
The entire system is built for the demanding conditions of a dairy cold chain, ensuring that automation enhances rather than compromises the critical requirement for constant temperature control.
Results & Benefits
The most significant outcome was the quadrupling of storage capacity, allowing Vinamilk to hold much more inventory in the same or less space, directly supporting business growth.
The automation led to greater efficiency in shipping operations and a measurable reduction in shipping lead time, enabling faster order turnaround and potentially fresher product delivery to customers.
The system enhanced inventory accuracy through automated tracking and reduced reliance on manual labor for tasks like put-away and retrieval, lowering operational costs and minimizing human error in the cold environment.
Challenges & Solutions
The core operational challenge was scaling food production logistics without sacrificing the precision, speed, and absolute temperature control required in a dairy cold chain. Vinamilk and Daifuku addressed this by implementing a fully automated cold-storage AS/RS. This solution combined high-density storage with integrated software control (WMS), ensuring efficient, accurate, and temperature-controlled handling from storage to shipping.
System Integrator
Daifuku was the system integrator for this project, responsible for designing, supplying, and implementing the cold-environment AS/RS and integrating it with the Warehouse Management System. Their expertise in intralogistics automation was applied to meet the specific challenges of the food and beverage cold chain.
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