The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight

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Australian Logistics – Kevin Bradley
Thank you to all our team members
for your contributions during the
past financial year. While the overall
financial result was less than profit
pledges, we have been able to
create some solid foundations on
which to build a successful
business.
We have set a realistic profit target
for this financial year and to
achieve our goals, we need to build
on the foundations and focus on
basic fundamentals. In particular
the following are areas that we
need to do better in the coming
year:
• Recruit a grad in every branch
• Get it right the first time
Noble Park, Melbourne – Aladin Basic
The Noble Park branch had a
successful 2010/11 with a positive
end of year result and our very first
profit plaque. The successful
outcome can be attributed to
building growth, rising to new
opportunities and strong branch
morale.
With an increase in customers
pursuing in-house warehousing and
the change to the Noble Park
model, we have had to develop a
stronger focus on sales growth,
both from our current customers
and also in pursuing existing
relationships with our Transport and
International customers. While the
movement of pallets out of Noble
Park has had an impact on our
bottom line, it has opened up
significant opportunities for our
sales function.
• Win more new business
• Ensure our warehouses are
absolutely sparkling – the best
presented in Australia
• Find ways to improve quality
and margin
• Work more closely with other
brands to find new business
opportunities.
The key focus for the Noble Park
branch is to acquire new clients
within the dangerous goods area.
However, our business is open to
other clients in varying product
categories. In the first month of the
new financial year, seven new
clients from a broad range of
product categories have been
acquired with an estimated 800
pallets in volume.
Somerton (Melbourne)
– Hamish Woods
Welcome to 2011! We have had an
exciting start to the year with the
activity across our existing
customer base. The team has been
very flexible in adapting to the
changing requirements of our
customers, and has demonstrated
a high level of practical thinking
and team work. A big thank you to
everyone for your efforts.
As part of our Group initiative to
ensure our team members are
cross trained across our business,
Wayne Harris from our IT team has
spent the last couple of months at
the Somerton branch to get an
understanding of our Logistics
operation. To date, Wayne has
spent time in our inwards and
outwards teams and has worked
across a number of our customers.
Wayne’s next challenge is to gain a
Contribution from the team:
Gidday, my name’s Dick Venkort or
Dicko to my fellow team members.
I’ve been with Mainfreight for just
over four years now and have
worked at our Campbellfield
more intimate understanding of our
operating system. Wayne has been
able to come up with some very
constructive suggestions towards
improving the way that our
and Somerton sites. My key
responsibilities involve dispatch
and receiving. I load and unload
our incoming and outgoing freight
and I also do the shuttle every
night.
technology can work better for us
and we look forward to seeing
some of these changes. Wayne can
be seen above using the RF guns in
our specialised environment.
There are a number of tasks that
are involved with preparing the
shuttle. I check the outgoing orders
to make sure that the orders have
been picked correctly. Once the
orders are finalised and the con