First Choice has continually grown over it's first 10 years in business and every 2 or 3 years it has been necessary to expand to meet the growing numbers of staff and stock. Despite the recession this trend has continued and we will be moving into a new building early in 2010. It will be a seamless move and contact details will remain the same as we will be retaining the existing building and adding the property next door.
With our largest expansion to date we will create new and improved office facilities for all of our staff, together with an all new, state-of-the-art, storage and picking facility.
In 2008 we made the decision to automate our warehouse functions as much as possible. The first step was to automate the picking routine by introducing bar-coding and electronic picking. With this now in place for over a year, we have seen improvements in the accuracy of picking, increased picking capabilities and reduced errors. So a huge success. We are now ready to start the next step which will automate the physical picking process. With the addition of 6 Lean Lift storage units and a computer controlled conveyor system we will eliminate 90% of the manual picking of parts and also speed up a pick job by 50%.