Especially when you zoom in on the story of OptimaT in Lichtervelde.
Their new central warehouse urgently needed ultra-flat floors for their new Toyota Material Handling Europe VNA trucks… and when this is the case, AlphaPlan is never far away.
OptimaT is a subcontracting company with a long track record. No fewer than 14 departments operate at the site in Lichtervelde, West Flanders, and the company also operates a landscape maintenance, cleaning and painting service. An important activity of OptimaT is handling goods as a subcontractor. These products are delivered by the manufacturer, after which they are processed by OptimaT staff and leave again for the customer or final destination. To manage that logistical flow, a professional warehouse is vital.
Andy Vandekerckhove has been working for OptimaT for more than 20 years and during those years he has seen the company evolve to a modern business with a professional infrastructure. “As CTO (Chief Technical Officer), I am very closely involved in the construction of our new central warehouse. And where there’s a warehouse, there are forklifts. After an initial exploratory discussion with the supplier of narrow-aisle forklifts for handling goods at higher heights, it soon became clear that our warehouse floor had to comply with the VDMA guideline. If not, we would never have been able to use our forklifts at 100%, resulting in loss of profitability.”
“That’s how we ended up at AlphaPlan. As the company is the only one in Belgium to master and apply the specific techniques for ultra-flattening logistics floors, it seemed a good idea to talk to them. And, at Alphaplan, they tackled that introduction very thoroughly! Not only did we receive a complete introduction based on our request, but we also got the chance to make some reference visits. This way, we came across companies that had similar needs to ours and had had the grinding work done by AlphaPlan. Already during those visits, it turned out that the businesses were all very convinced about their choice of AlphaPlan. So we too went into business with them with confidence!”
“And we certainly don’t regret that to this day. The work went very smoothly. And that is not always the case in large projects like this. Thanks to transparent consultation and good agreements, AlphaPlan succeeded in the assignment with flying colours. An example of the professional approach: AlphaPlan permanently had two crates filled with common spare parts for their machines in our warehouse while the grinding work was being carried out. This way, the work was never compromised, even if one of the machines had broken down.”
“AlphaPlan delivered the grinding work completely on schedule. Just because it is so rare for work like this to be delivered so punctually within the agreed timing, it remains very much in my memory. We are so satisfied with AlphaPlan’s services that doing even better seems almost impossible. Thanks to ultra-flat floors, our forklifts now perform at full capacity, which increases our internal efficiency and profitability. And guarantees satisfied customers.”
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