Warehouse & Distribution
Warehouse & Distribution
Fast Parts Delivery - Efﬁcient order picking
for wholesale business
Streamline the processes in your warehouse or distribution center
pick-to-light technology and automation,
we have the experience to improve key
areas of your distribution center with
tested solutions. By meeting your return
on investment expectations we help our
customers to reduce ﬂoor space, increase
their levels of productivity and optimise
inventory management.
Flexible and effective systems
Kardex Remstar’s solutions allow organisations to streamline processes and
High availability of products, short
order handling systems to improving
minimise labour costs. Systems can be
delivery times, increased throughput and
existing processes and procedures,
designed to respond quickly and ﬂexibly
high cost pressures require optimised
automated storage technologies provide
to daily and seasonal peaks and order
storage and retrieval solutions in ware-
cost-effective and fast solutions. We are a
demands by being able to dynamically
house and distribution companies.
strong partner for your business.
adjust labour levels quickly and effetively.
Kardex Remstar understands your
Temporary and seasonal worker training
requirements and anticipates your
We have the experience
and management can be minimised or
future needs. From designing new
By combining integrated software,
eliminated.
Order Picking
When speed matters… in situations
in which every minute counts and
accuracy becomes an issue, we can
make your distribution run smoothly.
Multiple inventory management
techniques including batch picking,
pick and pass, parallel picking, static or
dynamic batching, host-directed batching
and many more can be incorporated in
order to make your order processing run
exactly according to your needs.
Our solutions are designed to be modular
and can be integrated in stages into
any workﬂow, regardless of its current
level of automation.
Fast Parts Delivery
Eﬃcient order picking for wholesale business
Fast Parts Delivery is an application
Why choose Fast Parts Delivery?
based on the use of Horizontal
Compared to static shelving, the goods-
Carousels within the Warehouse &
to-person principle of Horizontal
Distribution sector, speciﬁcally designed
Carousels in combination with ware-
for wholesalers with 24-hour service
house management software and
and overnight delivery, like production
various picking strategies results in:
industry, craft producers, automotive
industry or health care sector. Order
picking of stored goods such as (spare)
parts of various sizes, small parts in
bins or lightweight goods requires frequent, permanent and fast access to the
articles to ensure a high level of service.
Integral parts of the application are
Horizontal Carousel(s) and Power Pick
Global 6000 software which can be
Significantly improved order picking
performance
Optimized storage volume (m³)
The travel time for the picker can be
Best possible storage density is achieved
reduced drastically while due to fast and
by signiﬁcantly increasing the ﬁll factor.
accurate access to stored goods unproductive search times are avoided. As a
result, increased throughput, reduction
in personnel, more turnover and more
customer satisfaction lead to more productivity and less costs.
supplemented by other components like
Error-free order picking
pick-/put-to-light systems.
Picking errors by the personnel are kept
to a minimum by displaying the picking
information: no more incorrect deliveries,
no unnecessary expenses.
Horizontal
The Kardex Remstar Horizontal Carousel is used where fast,
reliable and eﬃcient goods storage and retrieval is crucial.
Whether in production or distribution,
Like any other storage system from
for applications with frequent access
Kardex, the Horizontals work according
to the stored items or for medium and
to the “goods to person” principle and
slow-movers: The Horizontal Carousels
deliver the requested items in the shor-
are the perfect solution for all of these
test possible way directly to the access
areas. Fast reaction times, increased
opening – without any unproductive
through-put and short delivery periods –
search time.
these are only a few of the requirements
made by distribution centers regarding
Your beneﬁts:
modern and efficient warehouse
logistics. It is exactly at this point
that automated Horizontal Carousel
systems from Kardex Remstar come
into action: they flexibly adjust to all
tasks and allow picking orders to be
processed in the shortest possible time.
– Higher picking performance
– Minimized waiting times
– Greater accuracy through
pick-to-light technologies
Optimized storage space (m²)
A Horizontal Carousel makes optimal
use of the existing room length, thus
optimizing proﬁtability and eﬃcient use
of existing storage space.
Case Study: Schrauwen in Herentals, Belgium
The Customer
Schrauwen is a wholesaler for sanitary and heating equipment as well as related (spare) parts, offering 24-hour
service and overnight delivery. They deliver a wide range of
equipment and parts to professional installing companies,
own shops and private customers.
Task
definition
1
Solution
2
Advantages
at a glance
3
The company needed
Horizontal Carousels with
- Enhanced eﬃciency due
fast access to the exten-
batch picking offer perma-
to batch order picking
sive range of goods, to
nent and fast access
increase picking perfor-
and enable picking of
mance and optimize the
20 customer orders /
entire picking process.
person simultaneously.
- Error-free picking,
no incorrect deliveries
Scope of
delivery
4
- 6 Horizontal Carousels
- Pick-to-light/put-to-light
systems
- Kardex WMS
- Full stock control
You will find the complete case study on: www.kardex-remstar.com
Conveyor systems
Pick-to-light
For quick picking and consolidation of orders, the connection of
To improve operator productivity, throughput and accuracy
work zones via conveyor systems is an ideal solution. Items are
levels, Kardex Remstar offers several integrated pick-to-light
delivered automatically to the access opening, picked and then
technologies to match most organisations’ needs and applica-
placed into shipping containers on the conveyor. This enables
tions. Our machines can be equipped with position indicators,
fast and trouble-free operation.
light pointers and confirmation bars in the access opening.