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Coop & TGW Logistics
Automating Coop’s Deep Freeze DC & Cold Chain Logistics Processes
Robust warehouse automation
The Swiss grocery retailer Coop supplies its national retail stores from its central deep freeze distribution center in Schafisheim, Switzerland. Since working in a deep freeze environment is particularly challenging for human workers, Coop's solution boasts our robust warehouse automation. Our technologies allow varied temperature zones for the preservation of different perishable goods. In keeping with the motto "only as cold as necessary," the temperature ranges between -5°C during the depalletizing and palletizing process down to -23°C in the shuttle warehouse. The fully automated solution is compact, energy efficient, and reduces strain on human workers.
Key Benefits
- Smaller Footprint and Lower Energy Costs: The compact system design results in maximal supply chain optimization. The goods in the deep freeze warehouse are stored in high-density racking, reducing energy costs.
- Store-Friendly and Volume-Optimized Packing: Automated palletizing robots prepare store orders on ready-to-ship pallets. The robot can palletize based on an optimized, pre-cubed pattern, requiring less space—cutting transportation costs. In addition, the items are stacked in a store-friendly manner, so retail employees require less effort and time to shelve delivered items.
Solution and Material Flow
The end-to-end solution provided by TGW Logistics is comprehensive. It depalletizes frozen goods, stores the individual units in the shuttle system, and finally sequences the items for mixed-carton palletizing - all fully automated.
Highlights
Zero-Touch Picking
Depalletizing robots allow for fully automated picking (Autostax), significantly reducing employee time in a physically taxing, deep-freeze environment.
Lifetime Services
TGW Logistics Lifetime Services allows for efficient operations and a high-volume fulfillment capacity. The TGW Logistics On-Site team works closely with the Coop team to virtually eliminate downtime and guarantee that all processes work to specification.
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Michael Schedlbauer
Vice President Business Development Grocery
TGW Logistics est une entreprise appartenant à une fondation dont le siège se trouve en Autriche et qui est un leader mondial de l'automatisation des entrepôts et de la logistique d'entreposage. En tant qu'intégrateur de systèmes reconnu, fort de plus de 50 ans d'expérience, nous fournissons des services de bout en bout clé en main : conception, fabrication, installation et maintenance de centres de préparation des commandes alimentés par la mécatronique, la robotique et des solutions logicielles avancées. Avec plus de 4 500 employés répartis entre l'Europe, l'Asie et l'Amérique du Nord, nous combinons l'expertise, l'innovation et un dévouement focalisé sur le client pour aider votre entreprise à se développer. Avec TGW Logistics, vous avez la possibilité de transformer la logistique de votre entrepôt en un avantage concurrentiel.