Warehouse Management a73 Success story
Tesco builds ‘Dot Com
Only Store’ for grocery
home shopping fulfilment
esco has taken a these facilities. The system will also consolidation buffer consists of
T
major step forward in
Successful partnership
be installed in a new dedicated a 3-aisle Quickstore HDS AS/RS
handling the picking facility to be built in Greenford, system. Each aisle is split into
and delivery of Tesco selected Vanderlande North West London. It will be a two vertical modules, equipped
groceries ordered via Industries to explore this potential, direct copy of the first system, with 6 shuttles per aisle (18
the Tesco.com website by which resulted in a successful which went live in October 2008. shuttles in total). Each shuttle
building a dedicated Dot Com partnership in the Aylesford The Greenford system will can access 3 levels of shelving.
facility, known internally as a DCOS (South East England). become operational in 2010. The customer order crates are
DCOS, (Dot Com Only Store). Vanderlande supplied the material
Orders coming in from the handling system for the order
website were previously consolidation process and the
processed in Tesco Superstores release and sortation of the
“
The consolidation buffer consists of a 3-aisle
Quickstore HDS AS/RS system. Each aisle is split
in the area. Personal shoppers consolidated orders to the delivery
hand-picked products directly vans. In addition to controlling
into two vertical modules, equipped with 6 shuttles
from store shelves, which were storage and release of the
per aisle (18 shuttles in total). Each shuttle can
then delivered by small fleets of customer orders, Vanderlande
vans based at the stores. Tesco systems also control the vehicle
access 3 levels of shelving.”
needed to reduce the impact of dispatch management process.
the Dotcom operation in certain Tesco also awarded Vanderlande
Efficient use of building space
spread throughout the HDS
stores, at the same time a 24/7 on-site maintenance and consolidation buffer and held
addressing space constraints for support agreement for the next At the start of the day, order until a predefined release time
the van numbers in particular five years. The quality of details and van schedules are of complete delivery van loads.
geographic areas, with a store- Vanderlande’s equipment, software downloaded from the Tesco When empty vans are assigned
based order fulfilment model. and engineering processes has host to the Vanderlande control and directed to a loading bay,
This led Tesco to re-evaluate the encouraged Tesco to continue system. Stock in the dedicated the driver will indicate the van’s
potential for a dedicated facility. with its roll-out programme for ‘store’ is laid out exactly like a presence to the HDS to initiate
supermarket, except that the release of all ambient orders
‘customers’ are replaced by destined for that van. The HDS
order picking staff. Pickers will release crates to be sorted
pick product from shelving into and loaded in reverse drop
plastic customer order crates sequence. On exit from the site
held on trolleys. A picker can the van is scanned and that
pick up to six customer orders load deleted from the system.
simultaneously, spread across
van routes. Completed orders The first DCOS in Aylesford is
are brought to a manually proving to have a quick payback
loaded in-feed line, which takes time in freeing up expensive
the crates to a consolidation retail sales space in existing
buffer mounted on a platform. superstores and enabling
Underneath the platform offices faster growth of Dotcom sales.
and warehouse space have Other benefits include improved
been created, making efficient accuracy, traceability and a
use of building space. The reduction in product damage. circlesolid
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