ALDI has confirmed it is building a major new distribution centre at Bradfield.
Now under construction, the Sydney Automated Distribution Centre will double ALDI’s warehouse capacity in NSW, allow it to handle more than 680,000 product cases a day at peak and 2.5 million pallets a year, up to 30 per cent more than today.
Scheduled to open in 2030, the centre will replace ALDI’s existing distribution facilities at Minchinbury, Prestons and Eastern Creek.
Once operational, it will supply ALDI stores across NSW and the ACT, with capacity designed to meet forecast demand through to at least the mid-2040s.
A similar facility is also under construction in Tarneit in Victoria, to service the state and taking ALDI’s total investment in Automated Distribution Centres to more than $2.5 billion.
The state-of-the-art distribution centre is an integral step in ALDI’s ongoing investment in logistics and supply chain capability.
The facility has been designed to improve supply chain efficiency, support future store network expansion and enable more efficient distribution across NSW. It will also help maintain the low-cost operating model that drives ALDI’s Price Promise to shoppers.
The Bradfield ADC is the only supermarket distribution centre to feature a dedicated automation sub-system across multiple temperature-controlled environments.
ALDI Australia’s CEO, Anna McGrath said: “ALDI has always taken a long-term view of our investment in Australia. The automated distribution centre in Bradfield will support our growth ambitions for the future, as we add approximately 100 additional ALDI stores nationally. This will help us bring our great-quality, low-price offer to more Australian communities.”
ALDI is partnering with Richard Crookes Constructions to deliver the facility. At more than half a kilometre long, the distribution centre will be built on a 22-hectare site with 108,000 square metres of floor space, spanning the equivalent of more than 18 Sydney Opera Houses combined.
Automation will run 24 hours per day, seven days a week to distribute products more efficiently from suppliers to stores. This will not only support future store growth and operational efficiency, but it will ensure that we can continue to deliver everyday low prices and quality products to customers.
