Photo: A worker scans one of the barcodes on a package. Encoded in the barcode is information about the package’s content, sent into Bimaruna Jaya’s warehouse management system (WMS) through the scanner
JAKARTA – With environmental issues becoming increasingly prevalent, it is more urgent than ever that industries, especially warehouse, practice sustainability. But regardless of sector, the transition to a more eco-friendly system will not happen overnight.
Bimaruna Jaya, Korindo Group’s logistics subsidiary, is taking its time to implement sustainable warehousing — starting with curbing its mercury lighting use.
“On top of following the standard operational procedure, we try to minimize our usage of mercury lighting. From 250-watt mercury-vapor lamps, we are gradually moving towards 50-watt LED,” said Bimaruna Jaya’s HSE Officer Muhammad Lazuardy Islami.
The result? 17,500 watts of energy reduced in Bimaruna Jaya’s 11,750 m2 warehouse. This includes the power saved in the warehouse’s three sections: a 5,475 m2 free zone area, a 5,450 m2 consolidation facility, and a 1,275 m2 bonded zone.
Warehouse transformation comes about as product distribution becomes faster. If storerooms took up an enormous amount of energy in the past, their modern counterparts put the brakes on power consumption, prioritizing sustainability. This shift reflects growing awareness of how environmentally-friendly practices drive operational efficiency.
Sustainable warehouse is a concept consistent with Green Economy, one of Indonesia’s six economic transformation strategies set by the National Development Planning Agency. It is expected to grow in popularity each year, especially with Presidential Regulation 98/2021 (on carbon economic value implementation and control over greenhouse gas emissions) now in place.
“Our HSE Team has developed an energy saving procedure that regulates lighting and electricity operating hours at work. In office areas, lights are off during lunch and after working hours. In the warehouse, this is after 06.00 PM, if there’s no overtime work.”
Activities within Bimaruna Jaya’s warehouse
Bimaruna Jaya’s process optimization extends beyond energy use; the company continues to improve its warehouse security system by installing an alarm system on its access doors.
“Our warehouse is supported by technology, such as alarms on access doors to help us watch for and mitigate potential abnormal or criminal events. We also have a warehouse management system (WMS), where we label stored goods with barcodes containing each product’s information. It is this information that we enter into this system,” said warehouse manager Feri Setia Harmoko.
With these improvements, Bimaruna Jaya has demonstrated a drive to grow and make its name as a distinguished, reliable logistics company by strengthening the local third-party logistics industry. Since its establishment in the 1990s, Bimaruna Jaya has provided a wide variety of services from customs clearance, inland transportation, export container yard and import container operations, warehouse services, and project logistics services. (PR)
