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As outdoor specialist Jack Wolfskin has been constantly growing by more than 20% every year, the company’s warehousing and logistics systems were bursting at the seams. For this reason, the company turned to TGWto fit-out a new distribution centre featuring TGW’s innovative storage and order picking systems.
Outdoor track T
he Jack Wolfskin distribution centre involved a conversion of the entire logistics organisation, and now supplies all of Europe.
Leading technologies and decades of application experience are in every Jack Wolfskin product, turning "At Home Outdoors" into a reality for the end consumer.
The market leader for outdoor equipment in Europe sought a partner that can prove its technical superiority and implementation know-how in this area for the design and realisation of its new distribution centre.
The logistics centre, located in Neu
Wulmstorf, Germany (near Hamburg) completely relies on direct carton handling – pallets, trays, or other additional load carriers are not needed. Jack Wolfskin’s logistics manager Uta Mohr explains: "Very early in the planning process, it became clear to us that we wanted to work without trays or additional load carriers since that would not be a solution for us, but rather merely an aid for the AS/RS technology.”
Testing requirements
The start of the season is the greatest challenge for logistics because all points of sale must receive the new
product range at this time. Mohr says: "For this reason, we deliver the new goods to the shops first and then send out the catalogue."
Each season, about 8,000 different articles are available, including all sizes and colour variants. With an overlapping of both seasons, about 16,000 SKUs are permanently available in the main warehouse.
"The business at the beginning of the season gives us plannability to the extent that we can add this volume to the plan up to four weeks in advance," Jack Wolfskin’s CFO Christian Brandt says. The greater challenge, however, is delivery from stock, which makes up
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