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Material Handling<br />
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certain point of time for lowest costs<br />
possible is the perfect task for an<br />
intelligent automated warehouse<br />
solution, says Manfred Lindner, CEO of<br />
ECOLOG Logistics Systems.<br />
While successful companies in the<br />
European market have succeeded in<br />
reaching considerable competitive<br />
advantages by automating their<br />
internal logistics, there are still massive<br />
potentials in this field in many<br />
companies in Dubai and the entire<br />
Middle East Region. Those companies,<br />
who initiate automation within their<br />
premises today, will have a remarkable<br />
advantage in terms of cost and control<br />
in the nearer future. And this is the<br />
case for most industries.<br />
With the help of automatic storage<br />
and retrieval systems and automatic<br />
solutions for the continuous transport<br />
of goods enormous competitive<br />
advantages can be gained. Stock<br />
keeping, order picking, packing and<br />
dispatch are easily manageable with<br />
automated warehouse solutions. The<br />
heart of such systems is an intelligent<br />
Warehouse Management System (WMS)<br />
that controls the entire processes.<br />
ECOLOG uses its own Supply Chain<br />
Management software named CI_LOG,<br />
which is based on state-of-the-art<br />
software technology. It controls all<br />
warehouse processes between inbound<br />
and outbound areas.<br />
The advantages of such automated<br />
storage and retrieval systems are<br />
stunning:<br />
Reducing picking<br />
errors to zero<br />
The advanced<br />
automated<br />
storage and<br />
retrieval<br />
solutions allow a<br />
minimised<br />
personnel<br />
dependence in<br />
the picking area.<br />
Errors through<br />
h u m a n<br />
intervention are<br />
practically not<br />
possible any<br />
longer.<br />
Dramatically increased throughput<br />
and much shorter delivery times<br />
With an automatic pallet storage and<br />
retrieval system it is possible to store<br />
and retrieve several hundred pallets<br />
per hour with only a few employees.<br />
With automatic bin storage systems in<br />
the small picks area it is easily<br />
possible to pick 1,000 positions per<br />
hour with only 4 employees.<br />
Highest reliability<br />
The automatic storage and retrieval<br />
system secures up to 100 percent that<br />
all delivery dates can be met and kept<br />
under control. The customers usually<br />
experience a dramatic improvement<br />
when changing from manual to<br />
automatic operation.<br />
Reduction of the logistics costs by<br />
50 percent and more<br />
Many factors allow a dramatic cut in<br />
the logistics costs. Extremely low<br />
human-resource dependence, almost<br />
no costs for wrong deliveries, highest<br />
throughput, a perfect stock security<br />
and best control over the complete<br />
material or product flow causes a<br />
radical reduction in costs.<br />
Reduction of the personnel<br />
dependence<br />
Simple operations and shortest<br />
training times lead to lowest<br />
personnel dependence. Flexibility<br />
with regard to needs of specific<br />
customers improves very much with<br />
the help of automatic storage and<br />
retrieval systems.<br />
Area profit up to 80 percent<br />
Automatic storage and retrieval<br />
systems usually require only 20-40<br />
percent of the designated storage<br />
space in the warehouse. This results<br />
in reduced premises costs or much<br />
more space for expansion.<br />
Supply Chain & Logistics Group | www.sclgme.org
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