Oakleigh
Distribution Centre
i2C have been engaged by SYNNEX to design SYNNEX’s new regional head office with fully automated high bay stacking system and distribution warehouse.
LOCATION
Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung Country | Oakleigh, VIC Oakleigh
CLIENT
SYNNEX
YEAR
2021
STATUS
Construction
The SYNNEX relocation and innovation project is the regional update of the SYNNEX global supply chain.
From Taiwan, through Southeast Asia and the Americas SYNNEX are at the forefront of information technology equipment supply with SYNNEX and their logistics arm delivering for key sector partners. The new distribution hub rests on a prominent corner of an existing industrial hub with easy access to and from major freeway routes. This facility has been lodged for town planning and is designed as a major upgrade to the existing SYNNEX supply hub historic paper mill.
Once completed this project will incorporate a head office over three levels and 3,000m2 with direct access into the warehouse for management at both the ground and first floors.
The 34,922m² GFA facility, to be constructed on a 44,000m² site. The distribution centre will comprise an on-grade loading and unloading logistics hub under an awning. This will feed a fully Automated Stacker Sorter System (ASRS) for the intake of palletised goods.
This storage unit is fed by an intricate network of both receiving and dispatch conveyors over three floors to aid in the efficient transport of both received and purchased goods to and from the warehouse. The warehouse unit itself is over three floors of both racked and unracked process areas for a total of 24,500m2 of assignable space.