Efficient E-Commerce Fashion Logistics & Returns Handling at the Highest Level
The Initial Situation
Together with a third-party logistics provider (3PL), a global fashion retailer was looking for an intralogistics partner capable of implementing a new highly automated logistics centre in Poland on a tight schedule. The e-commerce business, which was experiencing rapid growth even before the pandemic, demands fast, error-free online order processing and quick, efficient returns handling above all.
The Solution
SSI SCHAEFER realised this, installing an extremely complex, highly dynamic intralogistics solution in the new e-commerce fashion warehouse in a space of more than 60,000 m². The total system runs 24/7, processing 70,000 orders per day. Peak performances of up to 600,000 items have already been achieved. The equipment includes container and carton conveying systems, a pick tower with four levels and an SSI Miniload small parts storage system with more than 600,000 storage locations when stored triple-deep. The heart of the system is the SSI Carrier, implemented in six modules, each spanning three levels and equipped with 120,000 pouches. This scalable overhead conveying system combines transport, buffering, sorting, and sequencing functions in a single system and allows fully automatic assembly of multi-part customer orders while protecting the products. Fast movers from returns are temporarily stored in the pouch sorter’s dynamic buffer, making them available directly for new orders.
