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New opportunities with «GreyMatter»
" Fifty Shades of Grey " is a moderately boring movie about teen fantasies concerning first sexual experiences with the opposite sex. " Grey Orange " be more exciting for some: a global provider of AI-powered software for warehouse control and inventory management, whose " GreyMatter " software Dematic now wants to profit from.
Implemented step by step
" Iterative " is the magic word that the southern German supermarket chain V-Markt used to implement the Wamas Core WMS warehouse management system from SSI Schäfer for the smooth supply of its southern German branches. This minimized risks during ongoing operations.
Pallet market under pressure
Circulating in the millions, Euro pallets are an integral part of everyday life in industry, trade, and logistics. However, A and B grade pallets are becoming increasingly scarce, warns the logistics provider Dachser. This has repercussions for costs, planning reliability, and delivery capacity along the entire supply chain.
Air traffic control in the dark
Even after a malfunction was resolved on Wednesday, the screens at Swiss air traffic control remained fixed the technical problem at the
The true cost of fulfilling the order
Materials handling specialist Ferag focuses on a holistic approach to warehousing and the targeted use of technologies to automate defined fulfillment processes in order to improve order processing efficiency. The concept developed by Ferag Solutions is based on a new key performance indicator, " CoOF " (Cost of Order Fulfillment).
Federal Councillor Beat Jans in Rupperswil
The Swiss Logistics by ASFL SVBL training center in Rupperswil recently hosted visits from Federal Councillor Beat Jans, head of the Federal Department of Justice and Police, Jérôme Cosandey, head of the Directorate of Labour at SECO, and Aargau government councillor Dieter Egli.
Even better than lithium-ion
At the world's largest industrial trade fair in Hanover, with 3,000 exhibitors, a young company called BTRY from Dübendorf won a startup award sponsored by the logistics provider Hermes. The founders impressed the judges with an ultra-thin, fully flexible energy storage system that is intended to enable numerous new applications.
Large containers for the «Jaguar»
At Claas in Bad Saulgau, machines for forage harvesting and headers for the forage harvester, which proudly bears the name " Jaguar ," are developed, tested, and manufactured. More staging area was needed at the assembly lines. Bito assisted with the switch to the large SL 86 hoppers.
System change at the drying tower
Automation, as mentioned, doesn't have to be complicated. Even simple, repetitive logistical processes can be carried out automatically with high-lift pallet trucks like the EXV iGo. Forklift manufacturer Still successfully implemented this at DP-Supply, a subsidiary of Deutsche Milchkontor DMK.
«Logistics Townhouse» for the city
It was just one of the numerous presentations at the German Material Flow Congress, which took place in Dortmund these days in parallel with the IFOY Test Camp: It was dedicated to a concept by Carl-Friedrich Rico zu Knyphausen, Managing Director & Co-Founder of Logivalue GmbH in Berlin: A « Retail Town House » for the city center.
The true cost of fulfilling the order
The true cost of fulfilling the order
Materials handling specialist Ferag focuses on a holistic approach to warehousing and the targeted use of technologies to automate defined fulfillment processes in order to improve order processing efficiency. The concept developed by Ferag Solutions is based on a new key performance indicator, " CoOF " (Cost of Order Fulfillment).
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Instead of calculating the effort for intralogistics as a flat rate, the CoOF factor captures all costs for labor, handling, space, energy, software, maintenance and returns per processed order as a holistic and channel-independent metric.
Analyzing this data reveals how operational structures, process quality, and decisions regarding the use of specific technologies influence the overall profitability of warehousing. By evaluating the benefits of investments based on concrete unit costs using the Cost of Assets (CoOF) factor, fulfillment processes could be managed more efficiently and made more cost-effective.
Manage processes more efficiently
Based on the CoOF approach, companies could identify error costs, staffing needs, or process risks early on. Potential improvements typically lie in personnel costs, which often account for more than half of all order processing costs, or in picking and consolidation, where errors can cause up to €8 in additional costs per order, depending on the industry .
In the fashion industry alone, returns account for 20-35% of fulfillment costs, with delays reducing margins and tying up inventory. Furthermore, space utilization is also a critical factor: while floor-based intralogistics systems require a lot of space with limited throughput, vertical systems, according to Ferfag, improve space efficiency by up to 60%.
Fig.: Ferag Solutions
Autonomous and mobile robots (AMRs), Ferag states in its own words, can be deployed flexibly, quickly, and scalably – “ offer lower throughput compared to a stationary automation solution. Shuttle systems seem ideally suited for e-commerce with high warehouse density – but require high initial investments and are characterized by a rigid layout . ”
Identify solutions more precisely
Pocket sorters like ferag.skyfall are versatile, combining the process tasks of sorting, buffering and sequencing in a single system and saving energy – but installation is only possible in sufficiently high rooms.
By proactively considering the CoOF factor developed by Ferag Solutions, the most suitable solutions can be identified more precisely than with previously common key figures.
