Case Study: Teamwork Among Competitors at C-Log Solutions
Project Overview
C-Log Solutions, based in Saint-Malo, France, has supported the Beaumanoir Group and other fashion and textile retail partners for years. By adopting GEBHARDT’s intralogistics solutions, it is ready to meet changing consumer habits and the retail sector's increasing performance demands.
A Holistic Solution Across Different Storage Areas
The warehouse has five aisles, each with automatic storage and retrieval machines and a double load handling device for double-sided, double-deep automated storage and retrieval. Ten additional GEBHARDT StoreBiter® One-Level-Shuttles (OLS) were integrated.
One StoreBiter® MLS drives per aisle and level, which can serve several shelf levels without vertical conveyors and replenish the channels with cartons from the DHS warehouse.
The employees pick using a visual display on a mobile terminal to the picking cart. Here the quantity, the picking location and the corresponding carton are displayed. This procedure is supported by a Pick-by-Light system.
Since the shuttle weighs ten times less than an SRM, it has much higher acceleration values and a significantly higher speed, and on top of that, it consumes much less energy.
„We, SR Consulting, as an engineering and project management company, have worked on many projects with the Gebhardt Group, which has supplied us and always met our needs / For this project we were working on, we chose the Gebhardt Group because it was the only company that could convince us and support us in the suitability and feasibility of our ideas.“
P.J. Schmitt, Manager, SR Consulting France
GEBHARDT at C-Log in France
The French textile logistics service provider C-Log, headquartered in Saint Malo, is striving to meet the growing demands of its customers and parent company Beaumanoir. Accordingly, over time, all logistics sites have been converted into state-of-the-art and almost automatically controlled centres. GEBHARDT Fördertechnik commissioned a fully automated warehouse with several kilometres of conveyor line at its main site in Saint Malo - a logistics centre that incorporates a newly developed warehouse technology (DHS). It is characterised by the interaction between the stacker crane, which acts as a lifter, and the shuttle system, which takes over the function of the operator. The shuttles serve the stacker crane with the goods to be stored and retrieved. This significantly reduces the mean travel distances of the stacker crane, which on the one hand increases the performance of the system and on the other hand significantly reduces energy consumption.