GSF Automotive Components, the UK’s quickest rising motor issue, chaired by former Euro Automotive Components founder Sukhpal Ahluwalia, has opened a Nationwide Distribution Centre (NDC) in Wolverhampton.
The corporate, which has 190 shops within the UK and Eire, using 2,800 workers, took over the five hundred,000 sq ft facility in Wolverhampton in Might, and can function the central logistics hub, modernising GSF’s provide chain infrastructure and streamlining supply processes into its 194-strong nationwide department community.
The brand new distribution centre is designed for future scalability, currenly spanning practically half one million sq ft of flooring area expandable to as much as 750,000 sq ft with mezzanine.
The positioning contains workplace area, superior logistics capabilities with 58 docks, eight-level entry loading doorways, and practically 700 parking areas for vehicles and HGVs. The NDC is about to create greater than 400 job alternatives throughout the West Midlands.
Steve Horne, CEO, GSF Automotive Components, feedback: “The opening of our Nationwide Distribution Centre is a landmark second for GSF Automotive Components.
“For years, we recognised the necessity for a centralised facility to raise our service, and now that imaginative and prescient is a actuality. Positioned in an excellent, central place, this facility empowers us to ship distinctive service and product availability to our clients.
“The NDC will guarantee branches have extra merchandise on the shelf and can take away a number of time-consuming processes so our community can give attention to serving the shopper.
“It’s the flagship of a broader funding programme that’s remodeling GSF Automotive Components at each stage.
Sukhpal Ahluwalia, GSF Chairman, added: “The NDC might be an absolute gamechanger for GSF and the trade. GSF has desperately wanted a central distribution centre for years, however comparable initiatives underneath previous house owners have been met with false begins.
“As quickly as we acquired the enterprise final yr, we knew we would have liked to get it carried out – no ifs, no buts. We made the dedication, and we delivered. Our capability to ship this huge 500,000-sq-ft facility talks to the standard of our workforce. Nobody else would have been capable of ship an advanced venture equivalent to this one at breakneck velocity.
“The brand new NDC is all about placing our clients on the centre of the enterprise. After I was talking with our clients final yr, all of them stated that availability was one in all their prime priorities. They needed to know that they may belief GSF to have the precise half on the proper time, each time.
“Now every branch nationwide will get a delivery next day. Before our branches even open their doors, the parts that they need will be there, whether it’s restocking or ordering for customers. We will be able to deliver our customers a far superior service, and we will be able to let our knowledgeable team focus more time on looking after our valued garage customers.”