Study on the opening of a new working place in Romania of an European expedition house

Abstract

The present paper aims to carry out the case study on the possibility of opening a new working point of Englmayer Spedition GMBH in Dolj County. Starting from the current situation of Sibiu’s work point and based on the results of the measurements, the necessity of opening a new working point is demonstrated. Englmayer is a transport and delivery company headquartered in Austria, with many work points in Europe including 5 terminals in Romania. The case study includes the presentation of the current situation on the Sibiu work point, followed by the calculations required to highlight the need to open a new work point in Dolj county. This new working point will take over part of the daily work from Sibiu’s workstation. An analysis of the risk of opening the new workspace and the improvements was made in order to minimize the risks. It was used the FMEA procedure. Business improvement proposals includes the solutions found to make the workplace useful and to bring profit to the community.