Fulfillment Center
Italian book wholesaler automates with TGW Logistics
In the northern Italian municipality of Stradella, TGW Logistics has built a highly automated fulfillment center for the book wholesaler Messaggerie Libri in recent months. The solution is one of the most modern intralogistics systems for books in Europe.
With its help, Messaggerie Libri can not only speed up its deliveries, but also sustainably improve efficiency in order processing and returns handling. Messaggerie Libri is Italy's largest book distributor. Founded in 1914, the company supplies around 50 million titles a year to 4,000 sales outlets such as bookshops and stationery stores. Together with the third-party specialist Ceva Logistics, Messaggerie Libri has founded the joint venture C&M Book Logistics, which is responsible for the operational management of the distribution center. Over the next twelve years, the two companies will work closely together as part of a strategic partnership.
"City of books" as a highly efficient shipping hub
Messaggerie Libri has invested over 40 million euros in the 80,000 m² fulfillment center - the so-called "City of Books". The centerpiece is a FlashPick system with a 14-aisle shuttle warehouse with around 330,000 storage locations. Thanks to triple-deep storage and the option of stacking bins, the available floor space can be optimally utilized. Orders arrive at 32 ergonomic PickCenter One picking workstations and the various areas of the facility are connected by eight kilometers of energy-efficient KingDriv® conveyor technology. The TGW Warehouse Software, which is connected to the customer's SAP ERP system, controls the processes.
Flexible order fulfillment and returns handling
Thanks to the ergonomic PickCenter One work stations, Messaggerie Libri can switch flexibly between order processing and returns handling - and achieve maximum throughput as well as minimum error rates. Fast-moving goods are picked manually from pallets, while all other items are sent to the PickCenter workstations. Orders are first consolidated in the shuttle before robots automatically assemble them into pallets.
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