Specialist with an eye for detail
The Altishofen-based Swiss logistician Galliker remains on the lookout for opportunities to expand and to specialise – also in today’s difficult environment. Its logistics solutions cover the general cargo, foodstuffs, environment, health and automobile segments.
Galliker has a key regional focus on western Switzerland. In this context its facility in Aclens naturally plays an important role as a logistics and distribution platform for the firm’s activities in the Suisse Romande.
A company spokesperson said that “our infrastructure and our vehicle fleet, based near the conurbation of Lausanne, offers storage and handling options at every temperature, and distribution solutions for foodstuffs, medicines and pharma- ceuticals products.” Galliker manages the cosmetics logistics for various top brands from Aclens.
“We store, pick and pack, and provide a broad series of other value-adding services, right through to direct delivery, for some of the most important cosmetics companies operating in the domestic market in Switzerland,” the spokesperson continued. He underlined the fact that the corporation’s distribution platform in western Switzerland is a GDP-certified healthcare warehousing centre, offering a broad range of storage options at every temperature, as well as the picking and packing of cosmetics.
Great potential in collaboration
On top of this Galliker’s Aclens branch office added pre-kitting options (that is to say the detailed picking of selected snacks) for machines in western Switzerland a few weeks ago for its customer Selecta Switzerland, a provider of coffee and snack services dispensed by automated vending machines.
This new style of picking and packing, which Galliker has brought into action for the first time, is called ‘picking-by-light’; it reveals the firm’s interest in the more modern and ‘greener’ handling of orders. The commissioning of the first e-lorry delivered by Volvo Trucks, to Galliker early in 2020, fits in with this.
