Grocery retailer, Migros is working an automatic answer from KNAPP to optimise deliveries of recent meals merchandise to greater than 150 shops.
One in every of Switzerland’s largest retailers and comprised of ten regional cooperatives, Migros has partnered with KNAPP for quite a few initiatives since 2012. Within the newest web site to go stay, KNAPP has equipped an automatic answer for the formation of store-friendly, blended pallets at Migros Aare’s distribution centre in Schönbühl.
Fast dealing with retains meals recent
The Schönbühl DC provides over 150 shops with recent meals merchandise throughout the meat, fruit & vegetable, dairy, bakery and comfort meals sectors. Endto-end automation on the facility ensures error-free and dependable order fulfilment. As every retailer has a distinct measurement and structure, deliveries are tailor-made to every one, making shelf replenishment simpler for workers within the shops.
Clever imaginative and prescient and management techniques
All logistics processes on the web site are dealt with by the all-in-one software program answer, SAP® EWM by KNAPP, which is a mixed warehouse administration system (WMS) and warehouse management system (WCS). SAP® EWM by KNAPP processes the data it receives from KNAPP’s machine imaginative and prescient know-how, controls the automation and connects all areas of the warehouse.
Automated creation of retailer orders
KNAPP’s FAST Selecting answer routinely types pallet a great deal of blended containers based on retailer orders. The system depalletises, destacks, shops and sequences the containers – which might be heavy for people to deal with – earlier than re-stacking and palletising them. KNAPP’s superior Imaginative and prescient imageprocessing know-how analyses the packing sample of inbound pallet masses in an effort to optimise the depalletising and destacking processes. The containers are then saved in KNAPP’s Evo Shuttle automated retailer (with 37,400 storage areas) or within the high-bay racking system (2,000 areas), earlier than being sequenced by a complete of 14 Fastbox towers. The containers then arrive on the downstream stacking and palletising robots within the right sequence for the absolutely automated formation of secure, store-friendly pallets. The answer processes as much as 8,400 containers per hour with out errors, optimising lead occasions to make sure that groceries arrive on the shops in high quality.
