Warehouse Management Success story
144,000 totes. Small fast movers are stored in a paternoster system. Larger items are statically stored in totes in flow racks. Slow movers are stored in a shelving system. There is a pallet store in another building for large and non-conveyable items.
Fast order fulfilment
To allow orders to be picked in the shortest possible time, each order is ‘split’ into separate order lines. All order lines are picked simultaneously from the various storage ‘zones’. Operators can be flexibly assigned wherever they are needed. Various picking concepts have been implemented, including goods-to-man based item picking. This way of parallel picking enables TVH to secure overnight delivery. Customers coming to the shop at the warehouse facility with a rush order receive their goods within 30 minutes.
Order consolidation
The next stage is order consolidation. Totes carrying the picked products arrive at a 9- aisle miniload AS/RS, which acts as consolidation buffer, with 1100 order lanes for
orders in progress. The system stores and retrieves the completed orders. When all the totes for a specific order have been picked and have arrived in the buffer, a display indicates that the order is ready for consolidation. At this stage the waiting orders in the buffer can be individually prioritised and randomly accessed, allowing them to be prepared for shipment at exactly the right time.
Automatic sorting for dispatch
Completed order cartons, after application of a shipping and barcode label, are placed on the transport belt to take them to dispatch. Here they are sorted to TVH’s different courier service partners. Non-conveyable goods follow a separate route to dispatch, and are loaded separately onto the dispatch vehicles. From here it is the task of the courier service to ensure that they reach the customer together with the rest of the order. Saving more time and allowing the latest possible order cut-off time, TVH itself delivers its shipments to the couriers’ hubs in Brussels, Paris and Rotterdam, and even to Germany and the UK.
VANDERLANDE INDUSTRIES AT A GLANCE
Vanderlande Industries is a leading material handling company with more than 60 years of experience. The company has successfully automated more than 1000 warehouses and distribution centres worldwide. Vanderlande will be participating at CeMAT, held from 2 to 6 May in Hannover, Germany. Vanderlande will be showing the latest innovations in item picking, with the high-performance ergonomic workstation Pick@Ease, case picking, with a live demonstration of Automated Case Picking, and Warehouse Management & Control Systems, with its Vision Logistics Software Suite. To learn more about Vanderlande, visit the Vanderlande stand in Hall 27, stand J34. Vanderlande Industries operates from its headquarters in the Netherlands and Customer Centres in many countries.
NEED FRESH IDEAS TO IMPROVE YOUR WAREHOUSE LOGISTICS?
Empower your stores. Streamline your warehouse operations.
Reduce out of stock, improve in-store logistics, process orders quickly and accurately, realise lowest cost per case. Find out what we can do for you at: CeMAT 2011, Hannover, Germany. Hall 27, stand J34.
www.vanderlande.com
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March 2011
MANUFACTURING &LOGISTICS
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