Project Overview

Edeka Regional Warehouse Gochsheim, Germany

Expansion and Automation of the Dry Goods Line Warehouse of Grocery Retailer EDEKA

EDEKA Northern Bavaria-Saxony-Thuringia is one of seven regional groups of companies in the EDEKA Group. It supplies around 900 grocery stores in northern Bavaria, northern Baden-Württemberg, Thuringia and Saxony, making it the largest local grocery supplier in the region. The Gochsheim location supplies some of the EDEKA stores in northern Bavaria with items from the dry goods line, frozen goods, delicatessen products, as well as fruit and vegetables.

Holistic Warehouse Expansion for Grocery Retailer EDEKA

EDEKA supplies some of its branches in northern Bavaria from the regional warehouse at the Gochsheim location. To secure the future of the location, EDEKA has decided to add another warehouse complex to its existing logistics center and will rely on automation.

Challenges

- Limited space to create additional storage capacities
- Realization of sustainable and ergonomic picking processes
- Covering required output even at peak times
- Planning of expansion possibilities for forecasted business growth
- Storage and picking of a large variety of items /
a heterogeneous product range
- Transparent monitoring of best before dates

EDEKA Gochsheim, Pallet conveying System

Solution: Automatic High-Bay Warehouse for Dry Goods Line

SSI Schaefer implemented a viable and space-saving solution in a limited area for EDEKA, taking into account EDEKA’s individual requirements, especially with regard to software. The new high-bay warehouse for the dry goods line makes optimum use of the limited space available, and the picking processes have been significantly simplified and made more efficient. The WAMAS® logistics software from SSI Schaefer handles the warehouse management. This has already been in use by the EDEKA Group since 2003 throughout Germany in a large number of the retail stores.

EDEKA Gochsheim, storage-retrieval machine SSI Exyz