Warehouse Management a73 Success story
Mercadona realises its fourth
distribution centre with Witronʼs
Order Picking Machinery system
Last December, Witron Logistik + Informatik
was awarded the order for the design and
realisation of a distribution centre for
Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona at
its location in Leon, Northern Spain. The
Leon site plans to supply up to 170 stores
in the future. As with Mercadona’s three
other Witron-designed distribution centres,
Leon will also be equipped with Witron’s
Order Picking Machinery and Dynamic
Picking System modular picking systems.
ercadona is distribution centre (DC) also
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considered the includes the ability to pick half
most expansive pallets for certain stores using the
grocery retailer same AS/RS cranes that handle
in Spain. It has standard sized pallets. All orders
60,000 employees and operates from the different picking areas
1210 stores, with an annual are consolidated prior to shipping.
turnover of approx. 14 billion
euros in 2007. The system in time. Leon’s entire article range controlled products in
Leon is composed of a 28-aisle
Successful partnership
covers some 5900 different Ciempozuelos (near Madrid)
tray warehouse with 176,500 products from Mercadona’s dry working with the OPM and DPS
locations. In the future, some An 18-aisle pallet high bay goods assortment. With this solution. Another OPM system for
146,000 cases will be picked warehouse with approximately project, Mercadona and Witron frozen goods is up and running
each day with 16 Case Order 18,000 locations supplies the are continuing their successful in Ribarroja (near Valencia). When
Machines (COMs) onto load Order Picking Machinery (OPM) partnership that began in 2004. Leon is in production in mid-2010,
carriers. Picking will be fully and DPS system with articles. Witron has already realised Mercadona will have a total of
automated without human The high bay warehouse allows two distribution centres for 98 operating COM machines
intervention, resulting in store- for the automated picking of Mercadona’s dry goods across 4 DCs handling dry, fresh,
friendly order pallets free from any full and half pallets at the same assortment and temperature- and frozen goods. circlesolid
pick errors. A Dynamic Picking
System (DPS) system with 6800
locations and 6 workstations will
pick an additional 9000 small
volume trading units. The Leon
Witron reports that the projects
realised since 2004 are a clear
message of Mercadona’s
satisfaction with Witron, and
prove the efficiency, flexibility and
high availability of the OPM and
DPS systems.
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