Initial situation
Sander Gourmet ships 130 tons of gourmet products per day to its customers in the hotel and restaurant industry.
Sander Gourmet is building a new logistics center near its production facility, which will house a refrigerated warehouse and a deep-freeze warehouse.
High material flow performance is required in all areas. Another important requirement for the flow of goods at Sander Gourmet is strict adherence to the first-in-first-out principle. This ensures that the goods have the longest possible best-before date.
Solution
The new fresh food warehouse is supplied directly with goods from production via plant trucks. Deliveries are made in E2 containers, which are usually used in the food industry.
As these load carriers are exchanged throughout Germany, they are often subject to heavy use.
The incoming E2 containers are automatically depalletized in the incoming goods department. A sensor measurement technology developed by Unitechnik is used to check the quality of the E2 containers. Containers that cannot be conveyed are ejected from the system. This increases the availability of the entire system.
Pre-picked goods are temporarily stored in the shuttle warehouse, transported to the goods issue area and automatically palletized.
The Unitechnik warehouse management software controls all goods movements in the deep-freeze and standard refrigerated warehouses and selects the storage strategies so that products with a shorter best-before date are always at the front of the shelves.
Technology and key figures
- UniWare-LVS and -MFS with connection to ERP system CSB
- 3-aisle shuttle system, double-deep for 30,000 containers with 120 vehicles
- 2,000 storage and retrieval operations per hour
- Depalletizing robot for containers
- Fully automatic container inspection integrated into the conveyor system
- Supply of the 500 flow channels via the shuttle system
- Picking stations and pick-by-light system
- Palletizing robot for pallets and mesh trolleys
- Automatic pallet wrapper
