DELTA, B.C. — The BC Liquor Distribution Branch (LDB) is replacing its current Vancouver facility with a new building in Delta, B.C. that is almost twice the size.
The new $57.1-million Delta facility, located at 7003 72nd St., will be 37,161 square-metres and will include a modern warehouse management system and equipment. Other features include a new three-level bottle-pick area, four pallet-scale and wrapping machines, and a customer order pickup area that is twice the size of the Vancouver distribution centre.
“Every day thousands of wholesale customers, mostly private businesses, rely on the Liquor Distribution Branch to deliver products reliably and on time. This new, modern centre will mean better service to the LDB’s wholesale clients and the people it serves,” said B.C. Attorney General and Minister responsible for the LDB David Eby in a statement.
The facility will also have a larger, brighter and more environmentally friendly area to process product breakage and returns, a larger yard to accommodate shipping and receiving, and 39 shipping/receiving bay doors, up from the previous 16 doors.
“Aside from being larger, the new distribution centre in Delta also has significantly more yard space, allowing us to stage trailers we can’t currently accommodate in shipping or receiving,” said LDB general manager and CEO Blain Lawson.
“Even in peak season, it will allow us to stock 15 days worth of product, a vast improvement over the current five days, so we can better manage and access product and get it to our customers more efficiently.”
The distribution centre will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week with three shifts per day Monday to Friday. The transition from one facility to another will take several weeks and one third of the wholesale customer base is already working out of the Delta facility.
Staff at the Delta centre will receive about 60 truckloads of product, pick and assemble an average of 60,000 cases and 10,000 individual bottles, and will send out over 200 deliveries to wholesale customers around the province. The customer pickup area will be capable of handling up to 100 daily pickups.
The LDB fills more than 335,000 wholesale orders from nearly 10,000 customers annually from throughout B.C.
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