Plant Access | What we do

Stillage System

Plant Access offers to our customers the use of our innovative stillage system, which is a versatile green life transport and display system with the following benefits:-

Allows for safe and reliable transportation of product into store
More effective use of pallet space on trucks, allowing more product to be shipped into stores from the same truck.
Flexible display configurations, that allow green life product to be displayed more effectively
Stillages can be quickly condensed and packed down when not in use, space taken up by empty stillage storage is minimised.
Strong legs provide more safe and efficient use for both transport and display purposes.
Innovative adjustable leg sizes allow the stillage to optimise green life packing, This allows maximum usage of truck space.
Varying front and back leg sizes allow for excellent display presentation when in store and doubles the available floor space.

Cross Docking

Plant Access has a purpose built XDock facility in both Heatherton, Victoria and Wingfield South Australia.

Operational layouts at these facilities enable high volume quick receival and dispatch turnaround times giving the best delivery schedules to all Bunnings Stores twice weekly where possible.

These locations will have designated areas (“pens”) for a particular store, and specific areas for the loading and unloading of trucks. The stillages arrangement permits efficient and effective use of ground area.

The following procedure describes the process used –

All Greenlife arriving is checked and guaranteed for quality
Unload the trucks as they arrive at the cross-dock, and put Greenlife in unloading area
Forklifts then distribute Greenlife to correct store area “pens” for consolidation
Once all Greenlife has been placed in “pens” it is consolidated and prepared for the delivery stage
Greenlife is maintained and watered, if required, whilst at the Cross Dock

Both from an administrative and operational point of view, the cross-dock facility has the capacity of handling large volumes of Greenlife on any particular day. In Spring time, at peak, Heatherton Cross Dock has handled over 750 Stillage movements per hour and can download 4 Semitrailer loads simultaneously in 20 minutes.

Transportation

Plant Access transport provides ultimate customer service. It is cost effective and unique with the following benefits to our customers.

Deliveries according to a time slotted schedule – this ensures that stores are serviced regularly and have a good quality supply of product.
Plant Access delivers stock twice a week to stores in most metro and country areas.
Our transport schedule ensures that product is delivered into stores in the fastest timeframe possible.
Extra deliveries are carried out where needed; this is a major benefit to the smaller format stores.

Merchandising

Plant Access has developed a Merchandising service aimed at providing each store with a higher level of customer service and effective stock control/management.

Merchandising teams work in conjunction with our scheduled transport system to service each customer in displaying and maintaining stock in store.

Merchandisers ensure product presentation is at a high standard in order to provide the best customer experience.

Merchandisers establish a credible working relationship with Team members which ensures a high level of communication

For each stock delivery Plant Access merchandisers ensure;-

They arrive at the store up to 30 minutes before each delivery
Water the stock before it is merchandised into its designated area.
Communicate and liaise with Team members for direction and instruction for stock positioning
Merchandise the stock to Bunnings standards
Leave the Nursery clean and presentable
Complete each deliver put away within a scheduled time
Stack empty stillages neatly ready for collection from a designated area.