Grocery Logistics

Automating Coop’s Deep Freeze DC & Cold Chain Logistics Processes

Schafisheim, Switzerland

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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