Pfenning logistics
BITO Pallet racking PRO optimises operations in a top modern multi-user logistics facility
Our customer
In 2013, Pfenning Logistics established their new headquarters on a 200,000 sqm site in Heddesheim. They moved into the most modern industrial building in Europe: the multicube rhein-neckar. With its colourful blue, red, yellow and orange building face, this top modern multi-user distribution centre attracts attention even from a distance. Founded in 1932, the company started out as a transportation business for milk churns and continuously grew into today’s contract logistics provider who offers warehouse management, distribution and transportation services for customers from very different industries ranging from chemical companies to fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) such as foods and other consumables. Still family owned, the company employs some 1,650 people at 40 sites in Germany.
Initial situation and customer requirements
- Compliance with hygiene regulations is a must, since the logistics centre also serves customers from the food industry.
- Optimum use of space was another requirement.
- The customer needed a storage facility that adapts to a changing product portfolio and is easy to convert.
- Order picking at floor level height.
- Faster lorry loading and unloading to reduce lorry waiting times and to increase the number of lorries served.
- Fast and easy access to all storage goods. In order to make sure that this list of requirements is in good hands, Pfenning looked for a competent, solution-oriented partner with experience in integrated storage systems.
Some impressions of our customer solution
Project brief
The BITO Solution
Ideal combination
» BITO PRO Pallet racking and BITO pallet live storage PLS were the ideal combination for our customer’s requirements, providing enough space for approximately 140,000 pallets./p>
Optimum space utilisation
» The customer’s goods-in and goods-out areas were furnished with BITO PRO high-bay narrow aisle pallet racking.
Dispatch route related order preparation
» Pallets with picked goods are stored according to dispatch route / lorry tour in pallet live storage racking in the goods-out department.
On-site application and key features of our storage solution
- Narrow aisle racking is highly space efficient – stocks are compacted on a smaller area.
- Keeping buffer stock in pallet live storage racks speeds up stock turnover.
- The new logistics centre can now handle up to 175 truck loads per day.
- Faster lorry loading and unloading.
- Easy height adjustment of storage levels, since beams are simply hooked into the upright slotting.
- Fast and easy maintenance/repair, as BITO PRO pallet racking uses standard components.
- The 200 mm spacing between the first racking level and the floor enables convenient floor cleaning.
Our multicube facility is a real landmark with a future-proof layout. Realisation was only possible with the right partners.
