Outbound Goods
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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
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
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The picked goods are packed and loaded onto a feed line to the sorter
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The feed lines run to the sorter infeeds, which transfer the conveyance good to the sorter
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The sorter transports the conveyance goods to the desired destination or end point and can manage high throughput rates
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The packages are removed at the end points either directly or via a telescopic belt conveyor and placed in trucks, containers or loading bridges
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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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