Delivering the second ADC in Coles’ network

Celebrating the completion of Coles’ 187,000sqm Kemps Creek Automated Distribution Centre (ADC) with repeat client Goodman. Previous projects include an ADC at Goodman’s Redbank Motorway Estate which opened in QLD last year and has since processed more than 140 million cartons.

Located 40 kilometres west of Sydney CBD, the ADC has been designed to provide better availability for customers and create safer, more efficient outcomes for team members and suppliers. The site spans 187,000sqm – with a building size of 66,000sqm, making it  one of the biggest and most productive automated distribution centres in the world.

Once operating at full capacity, the Kemps Creek facility will service 229 New South Wales and ACT stores, with the site able to process more than four million cartons per week, the equivalent of 32 million products sold in stores. Over the course of a year, this is around 1.6 billion sales units.

Chief Executive Officer Leah Weckert said she was proud of all the hard work the team had put into the opening of Coles’ second ADC. “Today marks a key milestone on our roadmap…with a world-class facility that will deliver improved availability for our NSW customers.”

“We have seen great improvements in availability for our customers in Queensland and Northern New South Wales following the opening of Redbank ADC in Queensland last year – and I’m excited to see this second ADC bring these same benefits to NSW.”

Coles Group Chairman James Graham AM said he was extremely pleased to see this major investment in Coles’ supply chain come to fruition. “Over 4,400 people contributed more than 1.8 million working hours to building the site, installing the automation and getting the system ready for operation – it is an achievement that everyone should be very proud of.”

The Kemps Creek ADC is fitted with 3.5-megawatt rooftop solar, which is among the largest rooftop solar solution in the Coles network. To minimise food waste, edible food that can’t be processed to our stores will be donated to Coles’ community partners Foodbank and SecondBite.

The Kemps Creek ADC is proudly named Naady’u Gulamadda, meaning the place of the Gula (Koala).