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Operations and process improvement · Bicester and the M40/A41 belt

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A newly fitted unit in early light: a run of brand-new, empty pallet racking, fresh lime and tan floor markings on dark concrete, a folded step ladder and a roll of floor tape beside it, and daylight under a closed roller door.

Setting out a new unit

Moves, new shifts, new systems

A move into a new unit is a process with a start date, and it knots like any other. We plan it the way a builder sets out a slab: agree the line first, peg it, then build to it.

The same method serves a new shift or a new system arriving on a working floor: decide what changes and what does not, say who decides, and rehearse the switch before it happens for real.

The order things go inThe company

Before the keys

Six things agreed before anything moves

Scope
What is in the change and what is out of it, written in a paragraph a new starter could follow.
Plan
The stages and their dates, worked back from the day the new way has to run.
RAID
Risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies, each with an owner and a date to look at it again.
RACI
For each decision, who does the work, who answers for it, who is asked and who is told — with one person answerable, never two.
Cadence
The few meetings the change needs, how long they run and who attends; nothing standing that has no decision to make.
Cut-over
The hour-by-hour plan for switching from the old way to the new, including what happens if it has to be switched back.

The order things go in

From an empty shell to the first shift

The order is set by the flow, not by whichever contractor arrives first. Racking that goes in before the walkways are agreed is racking that gets moved.

  1. Survey the shell. Doors, columns, floor levels, power and data points, measured against the flow the unit has to carry.
  2. Mark out the floor. Walkways, bays, pick faces and despatch lanes drawn from the flow first, then taped and painted.
  3. Racking and benches, in order. The fastest-moving stock nearest the door it leaves by, the benches where the flow meets them.
  4. Systems before stock. Locations, labels and the order screen working before the first pallet arrives.
  5. Stock in by family. One family at a time, checked into its location, so nothing starts life in the wrong place.
  6. Rehearse. A walk-through with the team and a trial run of a real order, with the cut-over plan in hand.
  7. First shift. It opens with a huddle, runs to the standard work, and closes with a list of what to fix tomorrow.

Where we work

The M40 and A41 belt

Bicester has moved goods since the Ministry of Defence began building a depot here in September 1942; a storage and distribution centre is still there, served by its own military railway. The town sits on the A41, with junction 9 of the M40 to the south, and a pipeline of large distribution units is planned around junctions 9 and 10.

It is growing too. Bicester has been a Garden Town since 2014, its population of about 37,000 is planned to reach around 50,000, and the Graven Hill neighbourhood south of the town is a self-build development of some 1,900 homes on former Ministry of Defence land. More people and more floor space mean more moves into new units.

  • OX26 Bicester, Launton, Chesterton
  • OX25 Ambrosden, Arncott, Heyford Park
  • OX27 Caversfield, Fringford, Ardley
  • OX5 Kidlington, Islip, Begbroke
  • OX16 Banbury, Bodicote, Drayton
  • NN13 Brackley, Croughton, Aynho

And along the roads out: Oxford, eleven miles south-west, and Aylesbury down the A41.

The company

Who is behind the line

Name
JB90 SOLUTIONS LTD
Legal form
Private company limited by shares
Registration
Registered in England and Wales, company number 17430755
D-U-N-S
235118592
Registered office
4 George Street BICESTER, OX26 2EG United Kingdom
Incorporated
1 September 2026
Activity
SIC 70229 — Management consultancy activities other than financial management

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