Carrefour automates order picking
The grocer recently opened the automated facility in Bourges France. The warehouse is part of Carrefour’s transformation plan and provides fresh produce to its stores in eleven departments in central France.
CARREFOUR HAS launched a transformation plan to meet its human resources challenges, optimise supply flows and create a network of logistics depots adapted to its store base, with Bourges one of them.
With a total area of 66,000 sq m, this facility is divided into 11 eleven cells. The one dedicated to order picking for fresh produce (fruits and vegetables, seafood, grocery and brewery) was designed and installed by Fives to serve nearly one hundred Carrefour stores.
It increases the overall performance to sort 8,500 units per hour, as well as improving working conditions for employees with ergonomic solutions that require less effort, less movement and less handling, and therefore generate fewer risks. Noise levels are also reduced. Order picking is also more reliable thanks to proprietary WMS/ WES that minimise errors, while complying with quality standards. A high-capacity cross-belt sorter, GENI-Belt, is fed by three injection lines and can sort up to 8,500 units per hour to serve one hundred ramps.
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