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Delfi visited the company some time ago, where her manager told her about the company’s activities and how it went during the quarantine.
Old airplane seats were also stored
When we get to Jonava, we see trucks lined up near the company’s logistics warehouses.
“We are working on the hard work that our clients don’t want to work on,” explains Marius Giedraitis, director of the company.
When asked for a detailed explanation of the company’s activities, he states that, in general, the company is in charge of receiving the products of its customers from the producers, their classification, storage, grouping, redistribution, preparation for sale later and shipment to points of sale.
“We have a warehouse management integration system with most of the clients. This means that they electronically provide us with an order form of what comes to us from vendors, and we scan those products while we upload and view what has been downloaded.
The products come from the refrigerator to the sponges, there are tens of thousands of different products, “says M. Giedraitis, adding that customers whose products are dealt with often do not see them, because sometimes they go directly from the warehouse to buyers with the post help.
As one of the most important tasks is unloading goods from trucks and, if necessary, delivering them to special points, the company’s workers become like bees, but, of course, as M. Giedraitis says, everything happens when loading goods.
“If thousands of people give themselves a bottle of water, it can probably still fall, that’s all for us.”
There are also broken pallets, we lift something, it falls, it happens, the workers bounce off the equipment. We can only be glad that there are no critical things to injure workers and as such we work hard, and if we work we compensate.
Talga Company
And there are all kinds of confusions with systems. Sometimes manufacturers confuse barcodes, and when products start reaching customers, they report that something is wrong here. Of course, Lithuanians are those people, if a better product arrives, they remain silent, because perhaps nobody knows, but if a cheaper product arrives, it is a scandal at the highest level, then quickly everything returns to normal “Says the director.
The most interesting item stored when it was in stock, he said, are used airplane seats.
“One company went bankrupt and it was too expensive for them to keep them in Karmėlava, so they brought them to us.
They said there would be airplane seats, I thought there would be new ones, and we opened the boxes and they were old. In total, they stayed with us for 3-4 years and eventually got them bankrupt, ”recalls the manager.
Finding employees is not easy
When asked about customers, Marius explains that today there are more Lithuanian companies, but says that some time ago the situation seemed different.
“We also had Russian customers who kept the products here and so the products arrived at the store from here in 4 days. Customs Warehouse: about 5 thousand sq.m., it is at least 2-3 thousand square meters They were Russian goods, they were not worth keeping, they kept it here and filled it at their points of sale.
The vast majority of our current clients are Lithuanian. After 2009 Russian customers have been severely depressed, “says the director.
The manager also speaks openly about recruitment and wages. According to him, since the company is located in Jonava, Jonava residents work more here, although, as they say, the others also come from Ukmergė or Kėdainiai.
In general, the manager does not hide that finding people who want to work today is not very easy, and when asked about the wages paid, they say that they are certainly not the smallest when it comes to working in this sector.
“With us, the receivers / collectors of goods earn according to the work done, they have a base and then the amount depends on how many goods are scanned. There is no maximum limit, so I can tell that the payment fluctuates a lot.
One receives 700 euros, the other. – 1.4 thousand. Eur, although they worked the same ”, explains the manager, adding that he is influenced by the speed of work, the skills and the knowledge of the system.
It’s true, he says, because the warehouses are located in Jonava, and no closer to the country’s main cities, they can’t pay lower wages to their employees.
“Try to pay a lower salary to the recipient / collector of the goods. He will soon be working elsewhere, “says M. Giedraitis.
No Ukrainian is working
The company’s director says he has interesting experience recruiting Lithuanians who have returned from abroad. As he emphasizes, there have been good and bad cases.
Once, as he claims, a husband and wife who returned from abroad got a job at the company, but after less than a week, they simply disappeared.
“I called, I did not go up, I did not answer. They did not come to work anyway, so they had to complete the absences. Then I discovered that I found it better. Later, I met other people in the same way, but all, by rule They were generally back from England, “says the manager, but according to him, there have been good examples.
“One person lived and worked in Iceland for two years. There he saved for an apartment or a farm, returned, bought a car, now works for us.
Talga Company
In another case, the husband and wife had left for Germany. He has been there for less than a year, he has returned and now he has bought a house and he also works for us, ”he says.
Marius says that no Ukrainian works at the company today.
“My opinion is that before we can work and win, to survive with the Lithuanians, it is necessary to do so, but probably inevitably and we will import them due to the lack of workers.”
Especially there is no loader chain when it comes to unloading by hand, ”he says.
During quarantine – work year
M. Giedraitis leads us to inspect the warehouses as well. There, on the roof, five or six floors are loaded with all kinds of products, as he says, from sponges or USB sticks to appliances, washing machines, refrigerators, etc.
We are also accompanied by the company’s commercial manager, Aivaras Gūdmantas, who, when asked what is needed for the operation of logistics terminals in Lithuania to develop further and have a good impact on the economy, ensures that the railway European will make a strong contribution.
“Now it is problematic to come to Lithuania from Western Europe by freight train. Suppose this is where the Czech Republic comes to Kaunas with a freight car. It is more expensive with it than with a truck, because you have to recharge, change the track , etc. This is not yet the case ”, he says, and M. Giedraitis adds that the number of logistics centers in the country is growing quite fast.
“Sometimes I drove and saw how new logistics centers were built and I thought when our warehouses would be empty, because you are not in Kaunas, but that fear has already passed.
The new centers are also filling up, everyone needs everything, “says the manager.
Finally, when asked what the company learned from the pandemic and if it was a new opportunity for them, the director explains that the company’s good performance during quarantine was due to good workforce.
“I don’t mean that there were opportunities here, it is likely, I think outside of our fashion work, it turned out that we had our clients and it was beneficial to us that one of the big clients fulfilled our contracts after the New Year.” During the pandemic, we were guaranteed that we would have to source large quantities and have jobs. We had no problems at all.
We also signed a contract with another great client in the middle of a pandemic. We had a load of goods to bring here from the old warehouse. We had the worst work year during the pandemic and I was afraid that companies would not catch the virus or stop working, ”says M. Giedraitis.
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