BATCHING ORDERS & SORTING THEM OUT BATCH PICK & SORT
Manuel Muñoz, CEO Dematic Southern Europe, recieves the award from Blanca Sorigué, General Manager of SIL (International Logistics Fair Barcelona, Spain).
DC design
• More than 10 km of conveyor belts and roller tracks
Dematic’s design is based on the batch pick and sort concept and includes a Double Deck crossbelt sorter for split case items, another cross-belt sortation system for boxes, a special exit chute concept for order assembly and an automated warehouse with 15 Miniload cranes.
• Complete sortation system consisting of two cross-belt Double Deck sorters that are capable of conveying and sorting any type of item bi-directionally, using one or two of its cells depending on product size. Operating in dual mode, it is capable of sorting 80,000 units/hour
Dematic soon received an order to duplicate the installation, again with a 15-month delivery date, with both phases delivered and operational within ZARA’s deadlines.
• A shipping and cross-docking cross-belt sorter system for boxes
DC distribution systems overview • Two automated warehouses with capacity to hold more than 450,000 boxes, with 30 Miniloads fitted with three Double Deep extractors handling all incoming and outgoing traffic
• 1000 chutes, 500 for each of the two sortation systems used to pick the orders. Utilising this complex and extensive distribution logistics platform, ZARA is able to fulfil its supply chain objectives by despatching any order originating from its European stores within 24 hours, and 48 hours for the rest of the world.
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