John Deere Canada Opens Expansion to Grimsby RDC

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Press release:

John Deere Canada opens expansion to Grimsby Regional Parts Distribution Centre

GRIMSBY, ON (Oct. 24, 2011) – John Deere announces the official opening of the 96,000-square-foot addition to its Eastern Canadian Regional Parts Distribution Centre (RDC). This expanded parts centre in Grimsby is the latest addition to John Deere’s parts distribution network that includes the RDC in Regina, Saskatchewan, and the new RDC in Edmonton, Alberta, that serve the rest of Canada.

The newly expanded Grimsby Regional Distribution Centre will provide John Deere dealerships, and ultimately their customers, with access to more than 130,000 unique parts in quantities valued over $75 million. The Grimsby location is the primary parts distribution centre to 479 American dealerships and 191 Canadian dealerships, and employs 115 people in the 343,000-square-foot facility.

“The warehouse expansion also was coupled with changes to our parts logistics network,” says Chris Ficzere, manager of Canadian Parts Distribution for John Deere. “Our dealer network now has the ability to provide customers with emergency parts order service that in almost all cases can provide next day delivery before 8 a.m. This new service further demonstrates John Deere’s focus on keeping our customers on the job or in the field.”

As part of the North American parts network, John Deere dealers have access to more than 500,000 unique stock parts, which support all product lines, including agriculture, turf, construction and forestry products. These can almost always be delivered to dealer locations within two days. Overall, dealers receive more than 99 percent of requested parts.