Dematic Completes AutoStore Installation for Italian 3PL Plurima

Nov 16, 2024 Warehousing Ireland Case Study, Logistics, Main, Materials Handling, News Comments Off on Dematic Completes AutoStore Installation for Italian 3PL Plurima

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Automated solution achieves up to 75-percent reduction in the warehouse space needed while raising employee safety levels. Dematic Software leads to further picking process optimisation.

Dematic recently finalised the installation of an automation project featuring an AutoStore system for Plurima. The 3PL is the leader in the Italian market for hospital logistics and medical data management and also provides storage services for public and private hospitals. The newly installed system increases operator performance for both decanting and picking while also boosting order accuracy.

“In view of the market challenges we were facing, we already knew that an AutoStore system might be the best fit for us to meet our goals, and when combined with Dematic’s expertise and vast experience in working with the system, we knew this was our ideal partner for the improvements we sought,” explains Fabio Grossi Gondi, the managing director at Plurima.

To better provide outsourced pharmaceuticals and administrative stock management, Plurima turned to Dematic to deliver automation to its distribution centre in Caltignaga, in Italy’s Piedmont region, which supplies hospitals and other medical facilities in the province of Novara.

“Thanks to the advanced functionalities of our software, along with the batch order Put2Light system utilising battery-powered carts and wireless technology, we further optimised the picking processes, making the overall solution even more responsive and sustainable in terms of an ROI perspective,” beams Rosario Filomena, a sales manager in Italy for Dematic.

The modular, automated goods-to-person system was installed in an existing facility, which is approximately six metres high and has a floor space covering 400 square meters. The grid height is approximately 3,700 mm and has a storage capacity of 10,000 bins. The system has a storage volume of up to 758 cubic meters and a ratio of 1.9 m³/m². The 13 R5 robots and their respective battery chargers along with three carousel-type doors ensure the picking and decanting processes are carried out efficiently.

According to Grossi Gondi, Plurima is already reaping the benefits of their newly installed solution. The company has reduced its warehouse storage area by roughly 75 percent and has cut the number of employees needed for order fulfilment down to one-third of what it previously required. Additionally, employee safety has also climbed upward.

Sums up Filomena for Dematic: “We are convinced that this successful model can be replicated in other distribution centres with similar results in the future.”

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