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SSI Schäfer doubles the production of the center of distribution of Work in progress, in Germany

31/10/2007

on October 31, 2007

SSI Schäfer has been chosen by the company Work in Progress (WIP), specializing in urban fashion, within its strategic plan to improve its profitability for the installation of a system of preparation of orders aimed at improving its distribution processes.

Branded Carhatt, WIP is positioned as one of the leaders in the marketing of skateboard and BMX in the range of urban fashion. The company founded in 1993, has more than 20,000 references and has nearly 2,000 distributors which are located mainly in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, which supplies of an average of 3 million articles of clothing and accessories to the year in its facilitieslocated in Weil, Germany.

Ready to send cardboard boxes are closed and attached them the 'packing list'.

In order to increase the production capacity of its main logistics centre and the distribution in the area of preparation of orders, WIP entrusted with SSI Schäfer planning, engineering, development and implementation of your storage system, preparation of orders and logistical software; project that has been made in 18 months.

The study of the needs of the company, has led to internal logistics specialists to automate part of the installation and replace the existing manual system by an ideal between the principles of picking 'man to product' and ' product to man '. The scope of supply of SSI Schäfer in this project includes the metal structure, the introduction of a system of maintenance, the packaging, labelling and strapping system, integration of MIniloads as well as their corresponding software.

In the new logistics complex that extends over an area of 18,000 square meters, SSI Schäfer has equipped the facility with 8 corridors of racks for boxes and buckets served by Miniloads. Account with a capacity of 12,500 cardboard boxes, with a maximum weight of 30 kg in the corridors 1 and 2, and 42,000 locations for packages weighing a maximum of 20 kilograms between 3 to 8 corridors. In addition, SSI Schäfer has provided in the reformed nave, an area for the tasks of preparing-ing for orders of 2,500 square meters, consisting of four stations of picking.

In the area of entry of goods up to 750 units can be processed per hour. All suppliers should be labelled products and cardboard boxes supplied, with a special bar code, following the specifications of WIP. Then, the textile products that come in cardboard boxes, are placed in buckets.

SSI Schäfer has equipped the facility with eight aisles of shelves for boxes and buckets served by Miniloads.

For this intermediate step which corresponds to 94 per cent of deliveries, SSI Schäfer has supplied to WIP, 47,000 containers of the LTF6320 model with reinforced base and marking for barcode on all four sides. Once scanned and placed the articles of clothing and accessories, in the domes of SSI Schäfer, buckets are addressed and stored in its corresponding destination. The system of reading allows subsequent management and classification of articles, entered as stock. This operation is carried out in the corridors 1 to 4 of the Miniload with inputs and outputs of material, according to the principle ' product to man '. The four remaining corridors are fed by a system of racking in the rear and are equipped with a system of preparation of orders based on the 'product man', at the front.
6% Remaining, belonging to the low rotation or large items such as jackets, is managed by the computer system at the same time.