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BEUMER Best & Less Case Study

BEUMER Best & Less Case Study
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IN THE LOOP When Australian clothing and household linen retailer Best & Less decided to move into a new distribution centre for its nationwide operation, it was plain that the time had come for the company to review its operations and implement the optimisation and automation that it had wanted for some years. Before the installation of the new system, Best & Less’ warehousing and crossdocking was a purely manual operation. As goods arrived, workers broke down the pallets and took the boxes to the appropriate floor area for each delivery destination using a hand trolley. In the new system incoming stock is put directly onto the loop sorter at one of two induction points. The barcoded labels are scanned automatically, which acts as a receipt and tells the system which destination chute to deliver the box to. When the box reaches the correct chute, the BEUMER Group cross-belt sorter discharges it from the conveyor and it slides down to join the boxes that have already been delivered to that location. HIGHLIGHTS > First time automation of warehousing and cross-docking functions > Chutes designed to hold sufficient cartons to make up an entire pallet with as few spaces as possible. > System designed with ergonomics in mind to reduce work-related injuries and fatigue LOGISTIC SYSTEMS BEST & LESS

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SYSTEM OVERVIEW: The maximum size of carton that can be handled is 1000mm long x 800mm wide x 500mm high with a weight up to 20kg. > The initial installation was with two induction lines and an LS-4000CB Cross-belt sorter running at 2.3m/s. The loop is approximately 265m long with 183 chutes. This provides a sorting capacity of approximately 4,000 items an hour. > Additional inductions lines and chutes can be added to cater to future growth as well as split case pick-and-pack operations. > The system has been designed to achieve a total of 10,800 items per hour with the addition of...

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