Inter Cars SA, based in Warsaw, Poland, has commissioned the Beumer Group to equip its new distribution centre with conveying and sorting equipment, including a warehouse control system. Beumer will serve as a systems integrator for the project.
Inter Cars is establishing a new intralogistics system in order to meet the growing needs of its customers. The DC is scheduled for completion in June 2016.
Following a joint planning phase that ran for more than a year, Inter Cars has commissioned Beumer to fit out its new main DC just outside of Warsaw with a complete conveying, order-picking and sorting system. The system will control all the functions, from goods reception to quality assurance, picking of goods, consignment and shipping.
These areas will be connected by a conveyor system that is more than five kilometers long. After being consolidated for customers, the orders will be distributed to 51 destinations by a sliding shoe sorter in the outgoing goods area.
Beumer will also supply a PLC-based machine control unit and a material flow computer for the whole distribution center. The system receives orders from the warehouse management system, which the customer ordered separately.
“Order-picking, packaging and shipping can thus be coordinated, and the user can optimize the throughput, cutting costs,” explains Martin Mossinkoff, globally responsible director of Logistics Systems in the Beumer Group. “Inter Cars will get the entire system from one source. In this way it will avoid interfaces and will have us as a contact for everything.”
Employees from the Polish subsidiary of the Beumer Group will help set up the system and put it into operation; for the next five years they will be responsible for maintenance and servicing as part of a Residential Service agreement.
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