Automated distribution centre

High quality grocery goods are the top priority for AhorraMás. Therefore, the shops are supplied with fresh food every day. To offer customers the best quality, the groceries need to be processed immediately and shipped quickly after their arrival at the logistics centre. The TGW intralogistics solution makes this possible. It takes into account the processing of the refrigerated and frozen product ranges, concluding in gathering products for shipment and delivering them to supermarkets in roll containers.

• GOODS RECEIPT AND STORAGE
  The refrigerated and frozen goods arrive at the goods receiving area on pallets. The pallets are stored temporarily in the high-bay warehouse and further processed as quickly as possible to ensure the highest quality.
• ORDER PICKING
  Three manual depalletising stations ensure replenishment of the automatic freezer warehouse for cartons and trays. To ensure the cold chain of the frozen goods, the temperatures in the distribution centre are complied with very strictly. Refrigerated goods are transported from the pallet warehouse to four manual depalletising stations. The goods are sorted according to shop order automatically by TGW's Natrix sorter, which can handle around 7,000 cartons per hour. 
• OUTBOUND AREA AND SHIPPING
  At three picking workstations, the frozen goods are loaded into roll containers and prepared for transport to AhorraMás supermarkets. The refrigerated goods are picked in batches for the supermarkets using Pick-by-Light, likewise on roll containers.

AUTOMATIC FREEZER WAREHOUSE

Our automatic mini-load warehouses are particularly durable, enabling them to also be used in the freezer area. At -23° Celsius, the cartons with frozen goods are stored and retrieved using highly dynamic Mustang SRMs, thus ensuring the high output required by AhorraMás.