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Alison Wabe posted an update in the group
The Wall 3 years, 5 months agoThank you to the AP team who have just given Stavroula and I some really helpful training on Documation. If anyone needs some refresher training, remember there are some excellent videos on The Colart Academy: https://intranet.colart.com/en/courses/managing-invoices-pos-and-prs-with-documation/
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Vincent Bondoux posted an update in the group
The Wall 3 years, 5 months agoSince September 2021, Colart Le Mans has been renting a warehouse right next to the main building. Here we store pallets of raw materials, components and finished products. When we needed to restock for a production run for example, we had to load a truck that must drive 1.2 miles along the main road to deliver to us, even though our two buildings are 0,06 mile apart!
We decided to eliminate this aberration by setting up a small train that links our two buildings. This small train can transport 6 pallets at the same time.
There are many advantages:
-Instead of receiving 40 pallets three times a day at once, alternating between a peak of activity and a quiet moment, they now receive 6 pallets every 30 minutes.
-We have also gained in reactivity: by being delivered every 30 minutes, we manage emergencies much better than when we were delivered every 4 hours.
-Eliminating trucks has reduced our carbon footprint from 2.5t CO2 per year to 0.2 CO2 per year and reduced our transport costs by £43000 per year
Better working conditions, better reactivity, ecological progress and cost reduction: everyone wins!
Depuis Septembre 2021, Colart Le Mans loue un entrepôt juste à côté du bâtiment principal. Nous y stockons des palettes de matières premières, de composants et de produits finis. Lorsque nous avions besoin de nous réapprovisionner pour lancer une production par exemple, nous chargions un camion qui devait rouler par la route principale pendant presque 2km pour venir nous livrer alors que nos 2 bâtiments sont distants de 100m l’un de l’autre !
Nous avons décidé de supprimer cette aberration en mettant en place un petit train qui relie nos 2 bâtiments. Ce petit train peut transporter 6 palettes en même temps.
Il y a de nombreux avantages :
-cela permet de lisser la charge de travail de nos collaborateurs : au lieu de recevoir 3 fois par jour 40 palettes d’un coup alternant ainsi un pic d’activité/moment calme, ils reçoivent désormais 6 palettes toutes les 30 minutes.
-nous avons également gagné en réactivité : en étant livré toutes les 30 minutes, nous gérons bien mieux les urgences que lorsque nous étions livrés toutes les 4 heures.
-La suppression des camions a permis de réduire notre empreinte carbone de 2,5t CO2/an à 0,2 CO2/an et de réduire nos coûts transport de 50k€/an
Des conditions de travail meilleures, une meilleure réactivité, une avancée écologique et une réduction des coûts : tout le monde est gagnant !
Pictures: Before/After
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Brillante initiative!…
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A great initiative Vincent – well done!…
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belle réalisation …
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Great post Vincent.
This is an excellent initiative and great to see the specific calculations on CO2 reduction and cost savings. As you say there will be further savings in efficiency etc. A superb example of how Lean management and sustainability go hand in hand. Well done Le Mans!… -
and the train could possibly be repurposed when receiving visitors as a tour of the sites 😉
I like the improvements le Mans team are making continuously. This one sounds like a no brainer but needed some original thinking to come up with. Well done to all involved!… -
Well done Vincent, great initiative, thanks for sharing.…
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this is great progress Vincent, well done to you and the team!…
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Jakub Kopek posted an update in the group
The Wall 3 years, 5 months agoif anyone has spare few mln USD – here comes a chance to enlage the collection and present on the wall later to all of us 😉
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Adrian Moorcroft posted an update in the group
The Wall 3 years, 5 months agoThe Owner of The Art Studio in Hinkley in Leicestershire has posted a picture of these little beauties that she has just adopted. She has named them Winsor and Newton.
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Andrew Kimball posted an update in the group
The Wall 3 years, 6 months agoWe are at the SLS Arts 2022 Annual Sales Conference in New Orleans, which is bringing together 68 of their Fine Art Retail customers from across North America. This is the first time holding this event since November 2019.
Carole Guzman & Jasen Sherer are leading the “speed dating” sessions with groupings of independent retailers checking out the latest & greatest from Colart. Feedback has been pretty positive so far, with many retailers being very excited about the Liquitex Recycled Canvas especially.
Great to see so many retailers and the team from our 2nd largest distributor in person again!
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