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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL--(Marketwire - June 9, 2009) - The logistics capacities of EDEKA's
central warehouse in Hamm have been further expanded to accommodate the
integration of Marktkauf into the EDEKA Group. This expansion involved the
installation of WITRON's DPS system, and was completed during normal
operations.
"The use of automated systems has proven its efficiency in the daily
business, and our investment in technology at our central warehouse has
been profitable from a financial point of view," says Thomas Kerkenhoff,
Head of Logistics at EDEKA Rhein-Ruhr. "The implementation of Marktkauf
would not have been as quick and successful without the automation
technology in place at Hamm."
The existing Dynamic Picking System (DPS) with currently 60,000 tote
locations was more than doubled, as WITRON Logistik + Informatik GmbH added
another 78,000 locations during the expansion. This expansion enabled the
integration of another 3,000 different SKUs in the system and allowed
another 50,000 picks per day at ten new workstations.
WITRON had considered the possibility for future extension in its original
design, making it possible to execute the DPS expansion during normal
operations without any impact to the performance of the running system.
WITRON's foresight in the planning process helped ensure a seamless
expansion without any interruption to EDEKA's daily business.
The DPS expansion was completed by December 2008, enabling EDEKA to handle
the Christmas and New Year's business with some of the new system parts
already.
With the combination of WITRON's OPM (Order Picking Machinery), DPS, and
pick-by-voice systems at Hamm, EDEKA Rhein-Ruhr now has the possibility to
efficiently and profitably pick more than 500,000 units to supply 1,000
stores.
