New central warehouse as the heart of the company
WMS-controlled automation solution for E-T-A Altdorf
Electrical engineering manufacturer E-T-A increases efficiency with a scalable automation solution from Jungheinrich. A customised Jungheinrich WMS controls all logistics processes in the new warehouse and facilitates order picking with valuable special functions.
Challenges
- Construction of a new logistics building with future-proof storage and transportation technology
- Supplying internal production, further E-T-A locations and the end customer
- Expansion of warehouse capacity in logistics and production, as well as consolidation of warehouse locations
- Increasing the level of automation while reducing the high volume of manual work
- Mapping of the customer's existing SAP special processes in the Jungheinrich WMS
- Structural challenges on the site and complex fire protection requirements
Solutions
- Material flow consultation to analyse the status quo and develop a sustainable logistics concept
- Automated pallet high-bay warehouse with almost 4,000 storage locations
- Automated miniload shuttle warehouse with almost 100,000 storage locations
- Jungheinrich WMS for controlling the high-bay warehouse, shuttle warehouse and manual storage areas
- Scales with digital progress indicator in the WMS for reference weighing of small parts
- 10-year service contract including all maintenance for hardware and software components
Successes
- Early identification of high efficiency potential in small-parts storage and its automation
- Professional realisation of a state-of-the-art logistics system capable of growth
- Jungheinrich WMS with customer-specific special functions to control the complex logistics processes
- Increased efficiency through the simultaneous pick-up and drop-off of containers by the container lifter
- Sound software consulting for mapping the customer’s own logistics processes in the Jungheinrich WMS
- Increased sustainability thanks to state-of-the-art trucks and the high energy efficiency of the warehouse building
- Profitable cooperation as the basis for a long-term, successful partnership
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