Since its founding in 1978, ELV has established itself as a trend-setting electronics mail order company on the German market, offering more than 10,000 products online and via catalog with a circulation of over 500,000 copies. The ELV / eQ-3 Group is one of the innovation and technology leaders in the home automation and consumer electronics sectors in Europe. ELV’s order picking system reached its performance limit with about 250 orders per hour. MALORG Consulting supported ELV in planning a new warehouse layout and new warehouse processes.
Success stories
Planning of warehouse layout and processes as tender basis for WMS and warehouse technology for ELV AG
31. May 2022, Reading time: 2 min 2 second
Increase intelligence
- lack of intelligence of the used system regarding optimized pre-planning, accompanied control and monitoring and evaluation
- requirements formulated for LVS went far beyond general functionality
Focus on the picking area
- New distribution center in new hall with approx. 3,500 m² on three levels, meeting increasing requirements of mail order business
- Detailed planning of the warehouse layout with focus on picking area
- Determination of performance and storage space capacity in the as-is state
- Use of value stream and business process management methods to identify weak points
Mainly shelf racks
- Picking from shelf racks
- large parts from pallet high-bay racking
- Picking in pick-by-light mode according to the man-to-goods principle
- LVS solves storage of ABC articles as well as control of picking cartons intelligently
- Accompaniment up to realization and takeover up to stable process and acceptances