Getränke Essmann GmbH
BITO Pallet live storage provides space for more reference lines on the same floor area
Our customer
Essmann GmbH can look back on a long and successful history as beverage wholesaler and distributor, providing a large range of beverages from their distribution centres in many federal states in central and northern Germany to customers in retail and catering, to beverage wholesalers and other service sectors. The company, which offers its customers a selection of more than 2,000 different beverages – whether in non-returnable or returnable bottles or in kegs – has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Radeberger Group since 2008.
Initial situation and customer requirements
- Ensure permanent access to all fast movers.
- Increase storage capacities to accommodate a widening product range.
- Make sure that the racking layout can cope with seasonal peaks.
- Allow for a pick quantity of 15,000 beverage crates a day (A-items).
- Provide all logistics centres with a clever storage solution to maintain and improve delivery reliability, service quality and adherence to delivery schedules.
- Since picking individual items instead of entire pallets is very time intensive, the beverage logistics provider Essmann needed a solution to make order picking more efficient.
Some impressions of our customer solution
Project brief
The BITO Solution
Direct access to fast movers
» Palletised fast-moving items (A-items) are picked from pallet flow racks, while small order quantities are picked manually in the picking tunnel.
On-site application and key features of our storage solution
- Efficient FIFO order picking
- Picking positions are automatically replenished with new products.
Customer benefits
In what way has the BITO solution helped our customer to realise their full potential?
- The new storage solution provides enough room for an always increasing product range on the same footprint.
- Separate working aisles prevent that loading interferes with order picking.
- No downtimes for order pickers since products move automatically into the picking position.
