[photopress:loogistics_tan.jpg,full,alignright] eFuture, a leading provider of front-end supply chain management software and services in China, has signed a contract to retrofit Chaopi’s distribution center. eFuture was founded and is run by Adam Yan as seen in our illustration. He founded e-Future in 1997.
eFuture will be responsible for the complete retrofitting of the Chaopi distribution center including planning the layout and construction implementation process for Chaopi’s No.2 warehouse distribution center, training for modified operations, hardware procurement and system integration for high-speed, automatic sorting machines and an overall storage sorting system.
When completed about August this year the Chaopi distribution center will include the fastest high-speed, box-type automatic sorting machine in Asia, which will be able to handle approximately 9,000 boxes an hour.
Beijing based Chaopi is a subsidiary of Beijing Jingkelong , one of the largest fast-moving consumer goods, retail and logistics chains in Northern China with reported total revenues of over RMB5.64 billion in 2007.
Chaopi operates logistics support, whole-sale and agent services for food, non-staple food, commodity, cosmetics and detergent products.
Chaopi can store more than 4 million units of merchandise and turns over approximately 61 million units annually.
Source: CNNMoney