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The Foundation Icil visit the warehouse of Mercadona in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia (Barcelona)

04/05/2012

4 May 2012

The Foundation Icil organised the Tuesday 24 April a visit to the installations that Mercadona has in the Barcelonan place of Sant Sadurní d'Anoia. The Coordinator of the Division of the Logistical Block of Sant Sadurní, Ángel Jiménez, explained with detail all the logistical operations that carry out in these installations from which Mercadona supplies to 171 shops of Catalonia and to some other centres of Aragon.

This logistical centre of Mercadona occupies a surface of 150.000 square metres, of which 75.000 are built, being delivered in three buildings differentiated. At present, east the logistical block is the biggest of Mercadona in Spain. With a capacity of manipulation of 10.000 palés daily, at present Mercadona moves in this centre some 9.500 palés. This level of saturation is one of the reasons that has carried to the company to build a new logistical centre in Abrera.

With regard to the distribution, Mercadona carries out a third part of the operations of supply of his supermarkets in nocturnal schedule, between the 10 of the night and the 6 of the morning. The rest of operations of supply to the shops carries out during the day. The logistics of supply of products of Mercadona also is especially designed: all his providers download the gender in the centres of distribution of the company, with what any supplier delivers directly in shop.