12.11.2019 | Lager & distribution
EDEKA Rhein-Ruhr in Oberhausen relies on WITRON technology
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EDEKA, the largest German food retailer is going to build its fifth logistics center with WITRON using the OPM technology.
From the beginning of 2022, the new distribution center located in Oberhausen will supply almost 600 stores of the EDEKA-Regionalgesellschaft Rhein-Ruhr daily with more than 10,000 different items from its dry goods assortment. As a general contractor, WITRON is responsible for the design, integration, and service of all IT, and mechanical components for the dry goods assortment.
The main reason for EDEKA to build a new distribution center in Oberhausen was the state of the regional warehouse in nearby Moers. A warehouse that could no longer be modernized or expanded in a cost-efficient manner due to its age and location and which is now being integrated into the new logistics center. In addition, the Oberhausen location will take over an expanded assortment of a regional warehouse in order to relieve the central warehouse in Hamm.
The facility with a size of 39,000 square meters / 420,000 square feet includes a total of 57,000 pallet locations, 450,000 tray locations, and 57 highly dynamic stacker cranes. It is designed to handle a daily pick capacity of 252,000 cases. Most of the cases are stacked fully automatically onto pallets and roll containers by 22 COM machines - without errors and in a store-friendly manner. Bulky goods are picked by logistics staff supported by a pick-by-voice system and controlled by the semi-automated WITRON Car Picking system (CPS). Parallel picking of several store orders onto one industrial truck is possible. The WITRON Display Pallet Picking System (DPP) places half, third, and quarter pallets fully automatically onto pallets and roll containers. An intelligent WITRON IT ecosystem ensures a holistic connection between all processes within the internal and external supply chain and thus guarantees a high degree of flexibility as well as process optimization in real-time.
As already done at the Edeka sites realized by WITRON in Hamm (EDEKA Rhein-Ruhr), Landsberg/Lech (EDEKA Südbayern), Zarrentin (EDEKA Nord), and Berbersdorf (EDEKA Nordbayern, Sachsen, Thüringen), a WITRON OnSite team will be responsible for the service and maintenance of all process and system components.
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