Körber is building a new central warehouse for binder in Germany, as part of its new headquarters. The new warehouse is a modern logistics system with the highest level of automation in the company’s history – including control of processes through SAP EWM.

The new central warehouse combines the previously structurally and spatially separate shipping and parts warehouse. It is directly connected to the three existing plants, which will be gradually merged in the next construction phase.

As a general contractor, Körber built the automated, state of the art logistics centre in close collaboration with general planner TKS Unternehmensberatung und Industrieplanung. It consists of a single aisle pallet warehouse with double deep storage and a capacity of around 1,500 pallet locations, as well as a quadruple deep shuttle warehouse with around 45,000 box locations in three aisles and 58 levels. Storage and retrieval of the pallets is carried out with a fully automatic stacker crane with an output of 35 double cycles per hour. Four highly dynamic shuttle vehicles are used in the shuttle warehouse per aisle, providing an output of 450 double cycles per hour in total.

Additionally, Körber implemented the entire logistics IT on the basis of SAP EWM (Extended Warehouse Management) and SAP  EWM/MFS on the basis of SAP’s most recent technical platform SAP S4/HANA. The processes of incoming goods, production transfer and storage, as well as commissioning and dispatch, are mapped in SAP EWM. SAP EWM/MFS controls the material flow in the automatic warehouse areas.

With its high-level of automation, the new central warehouse is a milestone for Franz Binder GmbH & Co Elektrische Bauelemente KG. Given this, it was important to accurately map and check the performance of the warehouse and processes in advance. As a result, the full system and design were run through and enhanced several times with Körber’s warehouse design and simulation software. 

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