Distribution centre for office supplies

Restructuring and extension of the distribution centre of the company soft-carrier

Soft-carrier is a special distributor for IT products and office supplies. More than 42,000 articles from the paper clip to computer accessories are administered, packed and dispatched. The largest portion of the orders is received online and is delivered within 24 hours. This requires a smooth materials flow and high availability. 

When the order was received by Unitechnik the store was operated as a pure supply store. It offered space for 2,600 pallets and 15,000 bins and was equipped with goods reception and dispatch as well as with the corresponding conveyor technology. The actual commissioning was carried out at a different site of the company. It took place to a large extent manually. 

The object of the assignment to Unitechnik was the tripling of the storage capacity to 47,000 bins, the exchange of all existing controls in the current operations as well as the development of a modern computer supported distribution centre.

Scope of Unitechnik contribution:

General contractor

Control technology:

  • 12 PLC‘s S7-400
  • Profibus-DP with 200 decentralised bus participants

Warehouse management system:

  • UniWare warehouse administration and materials flow computer
  • Oracle data bank
  • 18 client PCs

Control cabinet construction
assembly
putting into commissioning and training
Service contract

Shelf facility: SSI Schäfer
Conveyor technology: TGW

 

Completion: 2004

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Case Study - soft-carrier Computerzubehör GmbH

Im Keitelsberg
54311 Trierweiler-Sirzenich
Deutschland

Key data

  • Bins: 12 lines with 12 ETV‘s
    47.000 bin storage spaces
  • Europallets: 2 lines with 2 ETV‘s
    2,600 pallet storage spaces
  • Central distribution loop with
    1.500 bins per hour
  • 13 commissioning spaces
    (Pick by light)
  • 24 packing places
  • 4 dispatching lines
  • Dispatch of 2,000 packets per day

Contact

Michael Huhn
Sales Director (CSO)

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