Spar Austria expands central warehouse
After an implementation period of more than two years, SPAR Austria and its project partner Witron put the fourth expansion stage of the Wels central warehouse into operation.
SPAR WILL be able to pick an additional 140,000 cases in a two-shift-operation in the future. The installation was carried out as a greenfield / brownfield combination in a 20,000 sq m new building, which was connected to the existing logistics areas during ongoing operations. SPAR and Witron have enjoyed more than 25 years of successful cooperation, during which project phases 1, 2, and 3 were put into operation in 1998, 2002, and 2015.
The central element of the “construction stage 4” expansion – just like in construction stage 3 – is the fully automated storage and picking system OPM (Order Picking Machinery). With the implementation of 16 additional COM machines (in total 24 COMs), it is now possible to pick up to 140,000 additional cases (in total 340,000 cases in two shifts) daily store-friendly onto roll containers in two shifts.
New additions also included an automated tray warehouse with 32 stacker cranes (in total 48) and 293,000 tray storage locations (in total 450,000) as well as a pallet high bay warehouse with 8 stacker cranes (in total 24) and 31,200 pallet storage locations (in total 73,000), 7 depalletisers (in total 10), and 3 stretch-wrappers (in total 5). An automatic empties buffer with 4 stacker cranes for up to 8,600 roll containers has also been added. This ensures that the logistics loop of the facility is always provided with the optimal number of roll containers.
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