Faster Shipping for Improved Customer Satisfaction

The outgoing goods and shipping department is the final step before delivery, serving as a key interface between internal and external materials management. In this process, goods must be moved to the outbound area, where packaging and picking quality, and relevant documentation, are thoroughly checked and recorded. Once these steps are completed, the goods are prepared for dispatch.

The outgoing goods process can vary greatly from warehouse to warehouse, depending on factors such as spatial conditions, picking technologies, and the characteristics of the stored goods, including quantity, weight, and volume.

GEBHARDT provides premium outgoing goods solutions to suit your individual requirements. Whether you need consolidation, sorting or sequencing solutions, we offer both manual and automated equipment options. With our expertise and broad product portfolio, we can help you improve throughput times and space efficiency.

Products and Solutions for Outgoing Goods and Shipping

Conveyor Systems

Our conveyor systems for totes, cartons, trays and pallets, ensure that packaged goods are securely transported to shipping areas. It can connect other work areas to outgoing goods areas to create a smooth, quick material flow. Conveyor systems can also buffer and prepare items before they are delivered.

Sorting Systems

Our sorting systems can process up to 16,000 packages per hour, ensuring that goods are prepared quickly and accurately by destination or courier provider. We have a wide range of sorter types to suit various throughput needs.

GEBHARDT StoreWare Software

Our GEBHARDT StoreWare software optimises the shipping process by enabling efficient control of resource use and the management of shipping routes and gates. It can also interface with shipping and customs software to ensure seamless operations.

Examples of Outgoing Goods and Shipping Solutions

Loading with Telescopic Belt Conveyors

This solution is used to distribute complete and ready-to-ship packages to different shipping destinations. The conveyor system is suspended from the ceiling to save space on the floor. ConBoom® telescopic belt conveyors make it possible to load swap bodies, trucks or vans. To achieve this, the telescopic belt conveyor can be extended and therefore reach into the inside of the truck. This allows an employee to stay in the truck and get the packages transported to the right place depending on the fill level. This solution includes a telescopic belt conveyor for each shipping destination. The shipping destinations can therefore be served at the same time. The goods are sorted either by using a barcode scanner and, if necessary, by communicating with a higher-level system to locate the destination, or by manual settings if the destinations are served consecutively. Barcodes can also be read without communicating with higher-level systems. In this case, however, the barcode itself must clearly indicate which destination is to be served.


Process Description

  • The packages which are ready for dispatch are transported via a belt conveyor to a higher conveyor level. The packages travel to the shipping destinations on a conveyor system suspended from the ceiling.

  • The packages are then sorted to shipping destinations/carriers. The destination is either determined beforehand via a scanner or can be changed manually.

  • The packages are transported via chutes to telescopic belt conveyors.

  • The telescopic belt conveyors are used for loading trucks or swap bodies.

Strapping Cartons and Loading with Telescopic Belt Conveyors

This solution is used to strap packages that are ready for shipping and distribute them to different shipping destinations. The packages are aligned to one side using angled roller conveyors and then strapped. Several strapping machines can be used in series for redundancy or performance reasons. The conveyance goods are then brought to a higher conveying level to allow them to pass through to the telescopic belt conveyors. This can also be achieved optionally on the floor with a lift-up gate. If the goods are conveyed to the telescopic belt conveyors, however, the conveyor flow is interrupted when the lift-up gate is opened. ConBoom® telescopic belt conveyors can be used to load swap bodies, trucks or vans. To achieve this, the telescopic belt conveyor can be extended and therefore reach into the inside of the truck. This allows an employee to stay in the truck and get the packages transported to the right place depending on the fill level. This solution includes a telescopic belt conveyor for each shipping destination. The shipping destinations can therefore be served at the same time. The goods are sorted either by using an optional scanner and, if necessary, by communicating with a higher-level system to locate the destination, or by manual settings if the destinations are served consecutively. Barcodes can also be read without communicating with higher-level systems. In this case, however, the barcode itself must clearly indicate which destination is to be served.


Process Description

  • The packages which are ready for dispatch are aligned on the conveyor system and then optionally weighed and strapped.

  • In case of high throughputs or if redundancy is required, at least two strappers are necessary.

  • The packages are brought to a higher conveying level using a belt conveyor and then sorted to different shipping destinations.

  • The shipping destination can be manually set or determined by a scanner.

  • Swap bodies or trucks can also be ergonomically loaded at the shipping destinations through the optional use of telescopic belt conveyors.

Sorting to Shipping Destinations with Sorters

Sorting systems can be used to sort large volumes of ready-to-dispatch conveyance goods to a wide range of destinations. A sorter not only offers economic advantages. The automated process, in particular identification and determining the destination, minimises errors and simultaneously reduces the demand for shipping personnel. Our sorting solutions can be used in a flexible capacity.


Process Description

  • The picked goods are packed and loaded onto a feed line to the sorter

  • The feed lines run to the sorter infeeds, which transfer the conveyance good to the sorter

  • The sorter transports the conveyance goods to the desired destination or end point and can manage high throughput rates

  • The packages are removed at the end points either directly or via a telescopic belt conveyor and placed in trucks, containers or loading bridges

Simplified Sorting with Conveyor Systems

The solution is used to sort cartons which are packaged and ready for dispatch to various destinations. The sorting process is carried out automatically. The destination lines offer a certain number of buffer spaces in order to absorb asynchronous processes during the removal of the sorted conveyance goods. This sorting solution can be used in Shipping / Outgoing Goods, for example. The destinations may include different shipping service providers or destination countries. The solution requires the conveyance goods to have a label with a unique ID. The destination can either be coded into the label or the destination can be determined by communicating with a higher-level system (e.g. ERP, WMS and LVS). Optionally, the conveyance good can also be labelled, weighed with a scale or strapped beforehand. After sorting, the packages are removed from the conveyor system and then placed on pallets or in trolleys.


Process Description

  • The packages are transported to the shipping destinations on the conveyor system. The packages are scanned on the way there. The packages can be weighed, labelled or strapped in front of the scanner.

  • The packages are then distributed to the shipping destinations. The packages can be distributed either manually or according to the information provided by the scanner.

  • The destination lines are often designed as gravity roller conveyors without a drive. The packages are then sorted onto pallets or into roller containers. Gravity roller conveyors should not be used for goods that significantly vary in weight

AGV-based Outgoing Goods Delivery of Pallets

Automated guided vehicles can organise outgoing goods in a highly flexible manner with overhead transport systems. The autonomous vehicles pick up pallets or other large load carriers in the warehouse or in production and transport them to buffer tracks in the Outgoing Goods department. The buffer tracks can be used to buffer several pallets, for example, before they are loaded into a truck or container. Sequence-controlled buffering can also be used to make the subsequent unloading of the truck as efficient as possible.


Process Description

  • AGVs pick up load carriers in production or in the warehouse

  • AGVs drive into the Outgoing Goods department

  • AGVs feed pallets onto buffer tracks

  • After the buffer tracks, the packages are loaded onto the truck or into the container. This can be carried out manually with a forklift truck or automatically with a truck loading system

Automated Dispatch Processing for Pallets and Large Load Carriers

A GEBHARDT apron conveyor solution can be used to strap and stretch a wide variety of pallets up to 1.5t before shipping. The modular apron conveyors used move goods with a wide range of dimensions, weights and properties. Secure and reliable dispatch processes can be implemented in conjunction with a direct SAP connection.

GEBHARDT Aligns INTERSPORT Logistics Centre with New Market and Sales Requirements

INTERSPORT is the number one company in sports retail and supplies more than 1,000 retailers worldwide. The company is using an omnichannel platform to supply its product range with ever-growing success. A shortage of storage space and outdated software made it necessary to upgrade the Incoming Goods department. Solutions supplied by GEBHARDT now make it possible to check in more than 2,000 containers per hour at the Incoming Goods department and to store and retrieve around 1,800 containers per hour. You can see how this was implemented in detail in the reference video.

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