Warehouses

General area of warehouse facilities managed by the Company RIVONA in Kėdainiai, Alytus and Šilalė is around 100 thousand sq. m.

The general area in Kėdainiai of the warehouses owned by the Company RIVONA is approximately 80 thousand sq. m. General projected capacity of the warehouses totals to around 6 thousand Euro pallets a day, and the projected capacity of the warehousing is around 48 000 of Euro pallets. Over 15 000 of product brands are store in the warehouses. The entire warehousing complex and logistics center employs approximately 320 people.

In order to improve quality and intensity of work, the storage house for packaging and short shelf life products has been reconstructed and expanded; at present, its space is 18,850 sq. m. In the storage area, automatic product-distributing equipment has been installed; its rated capacity is round 9,000 items per hour. The quantity of items distributed automatically is increasing. Now, not only short shelf life products are sorted; alcoholic drinks, refreshing drinks, grocery products with long shelf life, some fruits and vegetables are sorted too. The automatic product-distributing equipment increases the efficiency of work, and goods can be delivered to stores faster.

In 2012m. the Company has installed the dock and yard management system. Upon its launch, the suppliers and carriers have to register in advance their time of arrival to the warehouse. Depending on the registered time of arrival they are given a separate ramp. With the installation of the dock and yard management system, the efficiency of unloading processes was increased. Moreover, the planning of the time for the carriers is simplified significantly now.   

In 2021, a compactor for wastepaper, polythene film and PET waste was installed in the warehouses, thus increasing productivity.

In 2022, a new vegetable packaging line was installed with processing equipment (potato brushing, onion peeling) and an automatic function for placing packages in transport containers (line capacity – 64 packages per minute, package weights 2 and 2.5 kg). Thanks to this line, dirt is removed from potatoes and excess onion peels are eliminated. The consumer is provided with higher quality products. The new line cost the Company about 1 million euros.
In 2022, a 1800 KW capacity solar power plant was installed on warehouse buildings.

In its business, RIVONA, UAB has applied the most advanced technologies, e.g. radio frequency identification system RFID, warehouse management system, and advanced supply planning instruments. The Company is regularly improving the warehouse management system, thus increasing the labor efficiency of the labor. 

According to decision of the Lithuanian Logistics Association (LLA), UAB „Rivona“ became the winner in the Results in Logistics competition in 2017. It‘s a tradition: companies and projects that are considered to be unique, innovative and important to Lithuania in their logistics activities, are awarded LLA prizes every year. Our company was awarded the prize for starting up the product-distributing equipment in Kėdainiai; its price was 5.5 Mio. EUR.

The Company constructed a special storage house of 5,000 sq. m. where automatic sorting and distribution of bread, dairy, meat, cooking and confectionery products are performed, according to needs of each Norfa supermarket.