The Austrian intralogistics provider Knapp has developed, for the Migros Aare cooperative at its site in Schönbühl, Switzerland, a space-saving solution for the automated handling of mixed standard bundles. This was announced by Knapp in a press release. The central control for this as well as process- and store-appropriate pallet formation is therefore handled by an end-to-end SAP software solution with "SAP EWM" including "MFS by KNAPP". The fully automated interplay of all processes from goods receipt to goods issue creates an efficient and economical order processing in the fresh area and enables Migros to achieve an
hourly maximum throughput of 8,400 bundles.
Starting from the distribution center in Schönbühl, the Migros Aare cooperative supplies more than 150 stores daily with fresh groceries - including meat and sausage products, dairy products, fruit and vegetables, as well as bakery products and convenience products. The focus is on economical, reliable order fulfillment and supply quality for the stores. These differ in size and layout. Therefore, needs-based delivery is essential. To make the processes in Schönbühl as efficient and economical as possible, Migros Aare chose an automated "FAST" solution with SAP EWM from Knapp.
With the space-saving
solution from Knapp, Migros' standard bundles are automatically depalletized, unstacked, stored, sequenced, and subsequently restacked and palletized. For the handling of the mixed delivered pallets, an innovative image-processing technology from Knapp's Vision series handles the processing. Even before depalletizing, the Vision technology analyzes the entire pallet at the crate level and transmits the information to the software.
In the correct order
Thus, it knows the exact packing pattern. This enables efficient and item-friendly depalletizing and destacking. After storage in the central "Evo Shuttle" with 168 shuttles and 37,400 storage locations or a high-bay warehouse with 2,000 storage
locations, sequencing of the orders is carried out with a total of 14 FastBoxes. These thus already reach the downstream stacking and palletizing machines in the correct order, which finally form store-specific pallets fully automatically.
“With the new platform, we can continue to meet our supply mandate in the future and ensure that our customers find fresh products of the best quality every day. Thanks to the use of cutting-edge technology, we are able to track our goods systematically and end-to-end—from the supplier to the customer. This is a big step forward,” said Bernard Gruhl, Head of
