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Eroski has become the first supermarket chain in Spain to automate its fresh produce order picking.
Eroski has become the first supermarket chain in Spain to automate its fresh produce order picking. The company has over 2300 supermarkets and revenue of over 8 billion €, and is thus a major player on the Spanish retail market.
Eroski had already restructured its fresh produce distribution and centralized it in a 28 000 m² facility in Madrid, reducing transport kilometers by 30%. Now Eroski has automated the order picking of its fresh produce.
The new system has completely transformed the warehouse. The automatic order picking system, which features two robots on an overhead gantry, has a handling capacity of 150 000 crates per day and is engineered for cold stores. It handles the 35% of goods in the Madrid facility that are shipped as mixed loads.
Pallets of produce are delivered to the picking area by the shuttle cars, where the robots retrieve the stacks of crates and distribute them among specific customer locations. When a pallet load is ready, the robot deposits these crates on the outfeed conveyor, ready for transfer to dispatch.
Automation of the picking process saves time, facilitates cleaning, improves product quality through gentle handling and results in error-free orders. It has virtually eliminated manual handling. The automatic picking system has replaced 300 tons of manual handling each day, and savings of over 20% are expected.
The solution won the Club de la Logistíca ‘Best Logistics Project’ award.
Eroski had already restructured its fresh produce distribution and centralized it in a 28 000 m² facility in Madrid, reducing transport kilometers by 30%. Now Eroski has automated the order picking of its fresh produce.
The new system has completely transformed the warehouse. The automatic order picking system, which features two robots on an overhead gantry, has a handling capacity of 150 000 crates per day and is engineered for cold stores. It handles the 35% of goods in the Madrid facility that are shipped as mixed loads.
Pallets of produce are delivered to the picking area by the shuttle cars, where the robots retrieve the stacks of crates and distribute them among specific customer locations. When a pallet load is ready, the robot deposits these crates on the outfeed conveyor, ready for transfer to dispatch.
Automation of the picking process saves time, facilitates cleaning, improves product quality through gentle handling and results in error-free orders. It has virtually eliminated manual handling. The automatic picking system has replaced 300 tons of manual handling each day, and savings of over 20% are expected.
The solution won the Club de la Logistíca ‘Best Logistics Project’ award.