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Cummins opens new Mississauga parts location to improve service
By James Menzies
MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO
A larger, better-designed parts distri- bution centre in Mississauga will help Cummins Eastern Canada better sup- port its dealers and serve its customers. That’s according to president Jeff
Van Poucke, who was on-hand at the grand opening Feb. 22 to offer tours
to customers and other interested visitors. Cummins secured the new 16,000 sq.-ft. location in October and has been configuring it and moving in since. The new location provides parts for about 600 Cummins dealers and other independent shops and custom- ers from across Ontario.
About 60,000 parts a month move through the facility, according to parts supervisor Steve Baguley, whom Van Poucke said was influential in the de- sign of the new location. Baguley said Cummins retained as much ambient light as possible, installed racks that take advantage of the high ceilings to maximize storage space and installed an automatic shrink wrap turntable that safely and efficiently shrink wrap pallets.
“There was restricted space where we came from (on nearby Pacific Cir- cle),” Baguley told Truck News dur- ing a tour. “It seemed like a lot of stock was put into areas that didn’t fit our needs.”
Cummins officials said customers
will benefit from the additional stock the company will now be able to carry.
Its old location had less than 10,000 sq.-ft. of warehouse space, which also housed other activities.
That space is now being used for power generation production, testing and upfitting, Van Poucke explained.
Visitors to the new location have ac- cess to a TV and Internet. Terminals are located throughout the facility to help staff find and process orders from various locations.
There are currently 12 employees working two shifts at the new distri- bution centre. Van Poucke said there’s room to add more capacity as re- quired.
Currently the new Mississauga fa- cility receives about 15 trailer loads of product each day and sends out about 60 shipments. Parts are barcoded to ensure efficient and accurate process- ing, Baguley said.
The company also took steps to en- hance safety. Areas with steps are gat- ed off to prevent falling and a rail sep- arates waiting customers from forklift activity.
“In the old facility, we had to unload in an area that was a third the size of this space,” Van Poucke explained. “The probability for injury was much greater. Here, you have a broader ex- panse of space to manage inbound and outbound (shipments).”
It’s also more environmentally friendly, featuring low-energy light-
A tractor-trailer delivers supplies to the new Cummins parts centre on Ed- wards Blvd. in Mississauga. Inset, parts supervisor Steve Baguley, who helped design the new facility.
ing and technology that optimizes the amount of packing material that’s used. Located at 6950 Edwards Blvd. in Mississauga, the new facility oper- ates from 7 a.m. till midnight Monday
through Friday.
Other Cummins parts distribu-
tion centres in Canada are located in Pointe-Claire, Que. and Dartmouth, N.S.
US truck tonnage falls 1.4% in January
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA
The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Ton- nage Index slid 1.4% in January. In January, the index was 132.8, down from 134.7 in De- cember. Year-over-year the index was flat, according to the ATA.
“Clearly, 2016 started soft for truck tonnage,” said ATA’s chief economist Bob Costello. “There was a deceleration in freight volumes during the second half of 2015 which continued into the first month of 2016. The winter storms that hit in January likely suppressed volumes some, but by falling 1.4%, I doubt tonnage would have been positive without the storms. So, that tells me that the inventory situation continues
to weigh on truck freight volumes. The sooner the supply chain cleans out the excess stocks, the better for trucking.”
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