Pockets power one-touch distribution
Online retailers are increasingly realising the benefits of pocket sortation systems. When combined with automated shuttle storage, pocket technology is a potent force for warehouse efficiency.
Online retailers are increasingly realising the benefits of pocket sortation systems. When combined with automated shuttle storage, pocket technology is a potent force for warehouse efficiency.
Global service provider, Arvato Supply Chain Solutions, has awarded the contract for logistics automation at its new DC in Germany to Knapp.
A global leader in automation technology for distribution and production, KNAPP has over 60 locations, 6300 staff and 3200 active installations worldwide. The company supplies integrated logistics systems and advanced software for handling both flat-packed goods and hanging garments.
With tailored solutions and an extensive Customer Service network, KNAPP supports the retail, e-commerce, fashion, food retail, healthcare and manufacturing sectors. Customers in the UK includeAlliance Healthcare,Boots, British Gas, DHL, John Lewis, M&S, Next, The Very Group, Well and Wincanton.
Warehouse automation supplier, KNAPP, has developed an innovative solution for the automatic handling of containers in the grocery sector.
The Austrian-owned group, KNAPP AG, has improved on last year’s record turnover to report an all-time high of approximately 380 million Euros on 31 March 2013.
Austrian-owned group, KNAPP AG, has improved on last year’s record turnover, reporting an all-time high of approximately 380 million Euros on 31 March 2013.
Picking is at the heart of Knapp’s tailored solution for online food retail, which has been rolled out at Spanish online supermarket Tudespensa.com.
KNAPP welcomed existing and prospective customers from across Europe to its ‘Move Ecom’ event recently. Over 30 companies representing a variety of blue-chip brands attended the two-day event, which included a visit to the warehouse of KNAPP client, Boots.com.
Online store wehkamp.nl has awarded Knapp with a contract to provide an automated handling system for a new distribution centre.
KNAPP AG will provide the automated handling systems in a new distribution centre for the e-commerce specialist, wehkamp.nl, in the Netherlands.
German healthcare products supplier ProServ redesigned operations at its 4000 sq m warehouse installing the OSR Shuttle from KNAPP.
Warehouse automation provider, KNAPP UK, will be promoting its innovative solutions and logistics know-how at both the Packaging Innovations show in February and the Internet Retailing Expo in March, both of which take place at the NEC, Birmingham.
The Customer Service division of warehouse automation provider, KNAPP UK, is celebrating the renewal of its resident maintenance agreement for British Gas. The contract period seven years – the longest to date for KNAPP – and underlines the trust that British Gas places in the resident service team.
It takes a lot to get a warehouse working optimally. One key issue is space and not letting it go to waste.
Leading-edge storage, picking and sortation technology has been combined by KNAPP into a stylish automated solution for the French clothing retailer, Celio.
German casual fashion brand BRAX installed the Pick-it-Easy Pocket solution from KNAPP at its site last year.
Pick-it-Easy workstations and pick-to-light technology form key parts of a €60m automated DC for tool supplier.
The German wholesaler of electrical installation supplies, Technilog, has chosen KNAPP to supply its automated handling solution and the company signed the contract at the recent CeMAT exhibition in Hannover. The range of equipment supplied in the project will include 6 Pick-it-Easy workstations, which will be supplied by a 7-aisle OSR Shuttle system.
The German wholesaler of electrical installation supplies, Technilog, has chosen KNAPP to supply its automated handling solution and the company signed the contract at the recent CeMAT exhibition in Hannover. The range of equipment supplied in the project will include 6 Pick-it-Easy workstations, which will be supplied by a 7-aisle OSR Shuttle system.
Intralogistics automation provider, KNAPP, concluded a very successful fiscal year 2013/14 with a record turnover of 383.75 million eEros, while the opening of offices in Australia and Russia during the year highlighted the group’s continued international growth.