REWE Group Austria awards automation contract to Witron
The integrator has won the order to design, implement, and service a highly automated logistics centre for dry goods.
THE 135,600 sq m facility will handle more than 600,000 cases daily and supply around 2,500 stores from a product range of approximately 21,000 items. The core element of the project is the latest generation of WITRON’s OPM solution featuring 40 COM machines. The contract between the two project partners was signed in June 2025.
The REWE Group is transforming the site within existing premises into a sustainable and innovative logistics hub, incorporating state-of-the-art warehouse technologies.
The facility will utilise WITRON’s OPM and CPS (Car Picking System) solutions, enabling fully automated, semi-automated, and store-friendly stacking of cases onto pallets and roll containers. In the CPS solution employees pick items in a path-optimised manner – guided by a pick-by-voice system – from a pick front stocked with layer trays, totes, and pallets. Replenishment is handled by stacker cranes.
Small-volume items will be picked directly from storage totes into shipping totes at eight ergonomically designed workstations using the DPS solution and guided by pick-by-light technology. Here too, the pick front is permanently and automatically replenished by stacker cranes.
The individual logistics areas are connected via a conveyor system network. An intelligent consolidation strategy ensures optimal load carrier utilisation for stores, resulting in significant transport cost savings.
REWE and WITRON have worked together in partnership since 2012.
