Production logistics: The part at the station

Production logistics at a glance

Six points before you open a card. The robot arms in the title image only grip if the part is already there.

The station does not wait for the rack

A part can be in the building and the station still stops. The last metres are the line feed. Three facts belong in the listing. If one is missing, you are looking at a hall and do not know whether your line is fed from it.

The place at the station is small. It holds the next box. The lot stays in reserve, in the block or further back. Pallet places on the card count that reserve. They do not count the call from the station.

Three pictures, three promises

Beside the sectors you see car-body panels in blue stillages, row after row, the same parts stacked. That is what staging looks like: someone can run the sequence. The card near Bremen shows an empty hall, marks on the floor, no stillage yet. The card in Aichach shows the hall from outside. Three pictures, three states. Which one you rent is in the listing, behind Go to offer.

An empty floor you stripe yourself. Stillages, bins and the trip between them take a person. If the entry is only the floor, the stillages are yours. If it says warehousing, ask whether that includes the trip to the station or only putting the reserve away.

Raw material and finished goods on the same floor

Two flows run through a hall next to production. Raw material and purchased parts come in from procurement logistics. Finished goods want distribution logistics, often through packaging. If they share the aisle and the door, what is already finished and waiting for the truck usually wins. Raw material for the early shift then stands outside.

Ask whether goods-in and goods-out are separate, and where finished goods sit while the truck is not there yet. A buffer for finished goods is a different buffer from the one for material. If both sit in one count of pallet places, the split is missing.

The path between hall and plant

If the hall is attached to the plant, the door into production is the opening that matters: the width, whether a tugger train fits through, whether the hall shift and the line shift are the same. If a drive sits between them, the minutes belong to the buffer. A part that must be at the station at 6:00 and is 25 minutes away leaves the rack earlier. Those minutes rarely appear on the card. They belong in the listing.

The warehouse type production warehouse gathers the search for space at the plant. If a part stays for weeks rather than a shift, because it is a machine bed or an assembly, mechanical-engineering logistics applies. There the floor and the hook count. Here the pace of the line counts.

Who fills, and who calls

Two ways to fill the hall. You put material into stock before the order is there. Stock grows, and the line almost always finds something. Or the station calls the next box when it needs it. The hall stays smaller, and a missing box shows in the same hour. The listing rarely says which of the two is meant. Ask whether someone drives to the clock, or whether you only store.

An outsourcing arrangement moves the contract. The trip to the station stays. The first cards on this list lead to Aichach in Bavaria and to the area around Bremen, and further ones through the locations in Germany. Open them via Go to offer. If none fits, name the path to the line, the two flows and the region in a search request.

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The rent does not know the station

This page does not name a price per trip to the line. The table takes its ranges from the article Warehouse prices in Germany 2025. They apply to an ordinary hall and an operated pallet warehouse, not as the price list of the spaces on this page and not for staging to the station.

Compare two listings against the same question: does someone stage to the station, or do you rent the floor on which you do that yourself. A cheap square metre without that path is often the longer morning for a paced line.

Sources

The euro figures come from the article named above and describe ordinary halls and standard warehousing. The source publishes no rate for staging to the line.

• Warehouse prices in Germany 2025. A guide to hall rent and operated pallet places. No tariff for the trip to the station.