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Va r i o u s t e c h n o l o g i e s a r e u n i t e d i n t h e n e w d i s t r i b u t i o n centre of pet retailer PETCO. These result in a reduction of the handling efforts and costs. All this happens with established TGW technologies.
The new distribution centre in Braselton, Georgia, services 237 stores in 13 states in the southeastern and southwestern United States, as well as the companys growing dot.com business. With the new installation PETCOs transportation network as well as the picking procedures could be optimised to build store-ready mixed SKU totes.
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Innovative design and TGW technologies
The 506,000 square foot Braselton distribution centre brought together an innovative design and energy saving automated materials handling equipment from TGW for efficient store replenishment in the southeastern US as well as directto-consumer dot.com fulfilment. The facility manages an estimated 13,000 stock keeping units (SKUs) and handles an estimated 5 million units per month. A key component to the overall design was the NBS 30 Turbo narrow belt sorter designed to sort 120 cartons per minute with an extremely mixed product size. The sorter is 600 feet long with 18 diverts. The narrow belt sorter offers sliding shoe capabilities but with a faster implementation time and a much lower cost. Another key feature is a cartonisation function within the warehouse management system. The WMS profiles orders to determine how many cartons will be required to complete each order.. A zone skipping feature allows PETCO to route a tote anywhere in the break pack piece picking modules to make sure that the right SKUs are picked to a tote to meet the goal for store-ready totes and pallets. Finally, PETCO took advantage of a variety of picking technologies, all directed by the facilitys warehouse management system.
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Whereas full pallets of a single SKU, like dog food, are ready for putaway once a barcode has been scanned and validated, an overseas shipping container may contain hundreds of SKUs and products for various orders. These products will be sorted and palletised by SKU. The warehouse management system (WMS) will then create a license plate barcode label that is applied to a pallet and scanned.
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Customer benefits
> Narrow Belt Sorter: sliding shoe sorter capabilities with faster implementation time > Energy saving automated materials handling system > Combined DC for store replenishment and direct-to-consumer dot.com fulfilment > WMS automatically determines required number of cartons > State-of-the-art picking technologies for highest performance and accuracy > Different picking methodologies to perfectly fulfil the requirements
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