Faymonville – fast retrieval of spare parts

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The Belgian manufacturer of trailers for special transport and heavy haulage decided to centralize its storage facilities previously spread across three production sites in Belgium, Luxembourg, and Poland. At the same time, the entire logistics operation had to be reorganized more efficiently. The new warehouse needed space for 17,000 items and had to make them available to employees or customers in the shortest amount of time when needed.

Requirements:

• High retrieval performance
• Optimal use made of available space
• Process optimization
• Processing of orders placed by both customers and employees

Solution:

• Warehouse management software controls the entire process from storage to retrieval of items
• Productivity increased by 20%
• Greater efficiency due to batch picking
• Staggered height of the storage shuttles makes optimal use of the available space
• A counter fitted behind the storage lifts makes it possible to serve customers and employees
• Products (even old ones) are located more quickly thanks to the material image catalog
• Internal orders are retrieved immediately
• External orders are retrieved within an hour

Scope of delivery:

• 6 Shuttle XP 500 systems
• Power Pick Global warehouse management software with additional modules
• Handheld data collection devices
• Material image catalog