Traka set to save Tesco £1m a year

Working with Tesco, electronic key manufacturer Traka is to improve the key control and access management system for the supermarket giant’s fork truck fleets in three new and 19 existing UK distribution centres.

Initially, this will involve upgrading over 2,200 fork trucks at Tesco sites. Previously, keys for fork trucks were collected and returned to the Traka cabinet at the beginning and end of each shift. However, Tesco identified that staff accessing the existing key management cabinets could create significant bottlenecks when gathering to collect or return keys. By adopting a new approach to key management, some two minutes per person, per truck, across all shifts has been saved.
“Looking at this small time saving across all trucks on three shifts throughout the Tesco UK distribution centres equates to some 80,000 hours per year, or over £1m in improved productivity, says Godfrey Anderson, Traka’s MHE sales manager.