Optimum performance for MANGO

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SOLUTION & MATERIAL FLOW

One-Touch Receiving

Mango handles up to 6,000 cartons per hour in their goods receipt area. Cartons are directly loaded onto extended conveyors from the trucks and automatically stored in a mini-load warehouse. In total, the automatic double stacked mini-load system provides 850,000 storage locations for cartons in different sizes. High-performance cranes store and retrieve up to 6,500 cartons per hour. 

Order Fulfillment

Items retrieved from the mini-load system are first repackaged into totes at toting stations before they are stored in the shuttle system. The shuttle warehouse serves as a highly dynamic buffer for order fulfillment via picking workstations or sorters, depending on the order type:

• Cross-belt sorters are used to process most of the orders. Starting at 25,000 items per hour with low picking ratios and up to 30,000 items per hour with higher ratios. These are loaded onto the cross-belt sorter at the ergonomic infeed stations. The sorters transport individual items to chutes, where they are offloaded according to pre-cubing algorithms. At the end of the chutes, items are packed in order cartons.
• Prioritized orders, non-sortable items and slow-moving items are processed at high-performance picking workstations (goods-to-person workstations)

Order consolidation & shipping

All orders coming either from the sorters or the goods-to-person workstations are consolidated in the automatic mini-load warehouse and from there are transported to the shipping area. A linear sorter routes the order cartons to the dedicated lanes, where 5,800 cartons per hour are loaded into trucks. 

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