AUTOMATED CARTON WAREHOUSE SPEEDS UP MANUAL PICKING PROCESS

One of TGW’s solutions is for a leading fashion retail chain in Europe that supplies 500 shops uses the carton warehouse for the automated replenishment of the two different manual picking processes.

• Fast movers
   
  The fast moving articles are picked from carton flow racks. These flow racks are replenished by the automated warehouse. The shipping cartons arrive at the picking station with their picking list and are packed with the appropriate quantity of garment from each flow rack channel by the picking personnel. As soon as the carton is finished it is conveyed to the right area for shipping.
   
• Slow movers
  
  Here the cartons provided by the automated warehouse are sorted into a manual racking system. Workers walk through the rack aisles with picking lists for each shop and take the right articles in the right quantity from the cartons. Picked items are packed into shipping cartons and again conveyed to the appropriate shipping lane.

HIGH DENSITY WAREHOUSE WITH REDUNDANT HANDLING CAPACITY

One of the most important restrictions for this solution was the footprint minimization of the warehouse at a very high throughput performance. That is why TGW decided for a warehouse with two Mustang AS/RS machines with Twister VCplus load handling device in each aisle. The Twister allows for maximum footprint usage as it is able to store the cartons double deep by just using a single deep aisle width. And the use of two Mustang AS/RS machines per aisle boosts performance and guarantees access to each individual carton, even in case of the breakdown of one machine.