Changed consumer behavior is leading to increased demand for frozen ready meals or foodstuffs such as fish, meat, vegetables and baked goods. As a result, the demands on frozen logistics are constantly increasing. REWE DORTMUND GROßHANDEL eG was also faced with the challenge of expanding its storage capacities and storage performance. Therefore, the planning and realization of a deep-freeze warehouse was necessary, which was carried out by MALORG Consulting.
Success stories
Planning and realization of a cold storage
27. May 2022, Reading time: 1 min 48 second
Workshop to identify a vision
- Manual deep-freeze warehouse no longer able to cope with increased demand
- Planning objective: increase storage capacity, increase storage and retrieval performance, make storage processes more efficient
- Consideration: maximum economic efficiency
Automatic realization variants
- Determination of the realization variant
- Implementation of the requirements for different warehouse variants
- Realization variant: automated high-bay warehouse for pallets, miniload, picking zone with automated replenishment
Simplified compilation
- Deep-freeze environment as a special challenge during realization
- Optimization of processes through automation of deep-freeze logistics
- Simplification of the product composition for each supermarket
- Acceleration of storage and retrieval
- Ensuring continuous tracking and tracing