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The ATLAS ITk System is an all-silicon tracker being built for the Phase-II upgrade of the ATLAS experiment with a total detector surface of almost 180 m2. The ITk is being built by more than 1000 researchers from 113 institutes in 22 countries around the globe. The ITk parts, built in institutes and industry, require complex logistics to ensure timely availability at the different sites.
The whole procedure is not governed by standard logistics procedures found in literature, but taking into account the capabilities and the capacity of each collaborating Institute, ignoring its position on the map. Industrial collaborators deliver sensitive, usually small components to CERN, from where they need be shipped to different institutes, sometimes returning to CERN to be shipped again to other institutes, depending on their planned journey through different sites during their assembly and quality control steps. Some challenging procedures such as CERNs international organization status, temporary exports and dual-use material control rules as well as a very precise tracking follow up prior to any assembly, do make this effort heavier than may be expected.
On the other side, when large and very fragile components with dimensions in the order of meters, are delivered to CERN, corresponding handling and storing procedures must be organized.
The project decided that a logistics team, exclusively dedicated to ATLAS ITk Upgrade, be formed and support all these complex logistics activities during the prototype and construction period, and using CERN as a hub for them.