Supermarket giant Coles has opened the Southern Hemisphere's largest automated distribution centre as part of a $1 billion investment. 9News
The new automated distribution centre is the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.
Coles Chief Executive Officer Steven Cain has said this will make "a step-change" for workers' safety, eliminating almost 18 million kilograms of manual handling in the supply chain each week."Our new automatic distribution centres can process twice the number of cases and hold twice the number of pallets compared to one of our current distribution centres," he said.
"The automatic distribution centres enable us to half our current total footprint, leading to a more productive and sustainable business model.", Coles Chief Operating Officer Matt Swindle has also reassured that the new technology does not mean there will be less jobs. "We never had more jobs in Coles. We have over 130,000 team members at the moment. It was 117,000 three years ago," he said.
Swindles said the new facility had created 430 jobs, but that they were more related to engineering and manufacturing than product-picking, as at other distribution centres.
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