KNAPP brings new technology to warehouse logistics working with customers all over the world developing customized solutions. (video: KNAPP)
At Migros Lucerne, the largest private employer in central Switzerland, KNAPP is optimizing the existing warehouse infrastructure with a highly automated solution for the food retail logistic. The warehouse system is scheduled to begin operation in early 2021.
Daily delivery of fresh products like meat, sausage, fruits, vegetables and dairy products
The Migros Cooperative Lucerne is the largest private employer in central Switzerland with over 6,000 employees and annual sales of 1.46 billion CHF.
The cooperative operates 55 supermarkets and consumer markets, 5 outlets, 9 VOI Migros Partners (local small shop concept of the Migros Cooperatives in Aare, Lucerne and Zurich), over 20 speciality markets, 21 catering locations, 3 Migros Club Schools as well as sport, fitness and golf parks.
Fresh products are delivered to the points of sale one to three times a day, six days a week, including dairy products, meat and sausage products, as well as fruits and vegetables.
Food retail logistic with automation solution for fruits and vegetables
At the Dierikon site, the company is operating at the limits of its capacity with the existing warehouse infrastructure and cannot handle the growth planned for 2025.
The goal was therefore to install a competitive solution with a high degree of automation. Using their many years of experience in the food sector, KNAPP created the ideal concept for Migros Lucerne – a customized solution for fruits and vegetables.
Experienced in highly automated food retail logistic systems
However, this is not the first highly-automated logistics system to be built by KNAPP for the Migros Group. At Migros Zurich, a cooperative belonging to the Migros Community, two FAST Picking solutions have been up and running for several years.
“Our semi-automatic system running today is no longer sufficient for our current handling units. We are having to fill in the gaps more and more often with manual picking,” says Arthur Blaettler, Project Manager at Migros Lucerne. “The KNAPP solution is both highly automated and geared to the challenging cardboard packaging area. That’s why we decided to work with KNAPP.”
KNAPP, the specialist in full-case high performance picking
KNAPP’s FAST Picking solution is the perfect system for automatic, high-performance picking. In future, over 90% of all fresh articles will be depalletized at the Dierikon site, stored temporarily in the OSR Shuttle storage and picking system and then palletized for the stores – all automatically.
The food retail logistic system works with high-powered pallet and container conveying systems that will connect the warehouse areas to one another. The solution is scheduled to begin operation in early 2021.
KNAPP is an expert in full-case picking and the implementation of this solution once again proves their competence in the food sector. Customers around the world are fulfilling orders fully-automatically using KNAPP’s picking solutions, including the companies Axfood, Estuario Carni and many others.
Info about KNAPP
KNAPP is one of the leading providers of all-in-one intralogistics solutions, automated storage systems and warehouse logistics software. Across the globe, countless customers from the worlds of healthcare, retail/e-commerce, food retail and industry place their trust in the experience and innovative power of the KNAPP group.
KNAPP specializes in solutions in food and empties logistics, implementing solutions in the highest quality to overcome the challenges particular to food retail.
