Agrati relies on Kuehne + Nagel to outsource its distribution centre

New four-year contract for Kuehne + Nagel in Italy

The Agrati Group, a European market leader in the design and production of fastening systems for the automotive and industrial sectors, has awarded Kuehne + Nagel a four-year contract for the logistics management of its finished products in Italy. 

The newly-built warehouse in Trezzo sull’ Adda, 30 kilometres northeast of Milan, which was specifically designed by Kuehne + Nagel, centralises on more than 17,000 sqm all of Agrati’s finished product inventories. A site extension up to 27,000 sqm is planned for 2010.
In the new centre, 100,000 pallets will be managed per year representing 3,000 stock-keeping units of technical parts, such as bolts, screws, and nuts as well as complex-shaped parts, totalling to some 54,000 tons of products handled on behalf of Agrati. 

Under the agreement, Kuehne + Nagel is in charge of inbound shuttling from Agrati’s production facility in Veduggio con Colzano (Mi), warehousing, order picking, order preparation, labelling of boxes and dispatching. In a next implementation phase, operations will also encompass inbound quality checks and packaging activities involving different packaging boxes. For such services Kuehne + Nagel will use about 20 manual stations, 35 semi-automatic machineries and 6 packaging machineries.
Decisive factors for Agrati to award the contract to Kuehne + Nagel were the logistics company’s experience in managing technical parts’ supply chains in the automotive industry as well as its ability to handle seafreight imports. 

Quelle: Kuehne + Nagel