Operator daa (Dublin Airport Authority) and Vanderlande completed the installation of a new automated baggage handling system (BHS) at Dublin Airport’s Terminal 1 in time for the 2023 holiday season.
In this latest edition of the Fast Forward series, we fast forward three years after the go-live of Vanderlande’s MICROSHUTTLE at Digitec Galaxus in Switzerland. We return to the country’s biggest e-commerce company at Wohlen to find out how the innovative solution has fared under the most challenging of circumstances.
Parcel carrier PPL CZ opened its new transhipment centre in Hradec Králové in autumn 2022. The 46,000 m2 facility is strategically located near the D11 motorway, and will ensure the company has sufficient capacity and good transport links to service growing domestic and international markets.
De Bondt offers an extensive range of around 60,000 products from 50 well-known brands and collections. Delivering a high-quality service to its customers is essential. Fast delivery is a firm promise, as orders received before 6pm are guaranteed to be shipped on the same day. The company selected Vanderlande’s FASTPICK to help it manage strong growth and maintain high levels of customer service.
In just over 20 years, Digitec Galaxus has grown to become Switzerland’s number one e-commerce business. To deal with rapid expansion and growing order books, the company has partnered with Vanderlande – not just once, but twice – on warehouse automation projects.
Istanbul Airport opened in April 2019, complete with a baggage handling system engineered, supplied and installed by Vanderlande. Since then, the airport has had to cope with COVID-19 and, as the world opened up again, a surge in passenger demand. So, after four years of operation, how is the BHS working and is it helping Istanbul Airport deliver a great service?
In a buoyant food retail market, Netto was enjoying a period of sustained growth and a positive outlook, as its main distribution centre neared maximum capacity for the grocery assortment. To meet its needs for the future, the Danish discount food retailer decided to invest in new logistic automation and chose STOREPICK, Vanderlande’s end-to-end automated case picking solution.
Family-owned company, Van Gelder, is a major player in the Dutch fresh produce market. To facilitate ambitious plans for growth, and deal with issues such as labour scarcity and demanding lead times, the company took the decision to automate its warehouse with Vanderlande’s ADAPTO automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS).
In 2022, Austrian Post opened an impressive 50,000m2 building in Allhaming. The new parcel sorting hub is the largest in Austria and ranks as one of the leading logistics centres of its type in Europe.
We last visited FAN Courier in 2018 after two of Vanderlande’s CROSSORTERS were installed in its main hub on the outskirts of Bucharest. In the latest edition of this new series, we fast forward four years and return to the Romanian parcel company to see how this future-proof solution has helped it to successfully deal with changing circumstances.
10 weeks and tons of hard work went into setting up our brand new parcel sortation centre in York, UK. Check out this timelapse video of the entire process, from start to finish. From the laying of the foundation to the final touches, watch as this sortation centre takes shape in record time.
Lidl’s distribution centre (DC) in Køge, Denmark, outperforms traditional order fulfilment methods by using Vanderlande’s state-of-the-art automated case picking solution.
We last visited Asda’s 28,600m2 ambient distribution centre (ADC) in Warrington when Vanderlande’s automated case picking (ACP) solution was installed in 2016 and the leading supermarket chain had entered a five-year agreement with its supplier to deliver life-cycle services. In the first of a new series, we fast forward five years and return to the UK retailer.
Vanderlande’s POSISORTER enables ASICS Oceania to pick multiple wholesale orders and thousands of e-commerce orders simultaneously. This reduced the cost per unit and effectively doubled the capacity.
Udea is a wholesaler of organic foods, natural personal care products and sustainable non-food items. For its new centralised distribution centre (DC) in Veghel, The Netherlands, Udea needed a state-of-the-art automated solution that provided the necessary levels of availability, performance and reliability to match its omni-channel needs.
Alongside its supply of the BHS hardware and VIBES software, Vanderlande is also providing a comprehensive package of life-cycle services to Istanbul Airport.
De Bijenkorf has been a strong Dutch brand for more than 150 years. Established in 1870 as a small haberdashery, it now has flagship stores in Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam. The company mainly sells luxury clothing, fashion accessories, cosmetics and perfume, as well as furniture and home accessories.
Zalando selected Vanderlande’s AIRTRAX Pocket sorter to act as the heart of the new facility. Containing 6,500 pockets, it has been implemented as a pilot project.
Bosch needed a new warehousing system for its DC in Karlsruhe. It had to facilitate triple-depth storage of containers weighing up to 50kg. Vanderlande’s QUICKSTORE turned out to be an ideal fit.
As the first airport to screen 100% of hand luggage with CT scanners, Eindhoven Airport’s goal was to improve efficiency and optimise passenger experience in a limited space.
In order to ensure that its passengers enjoy a stress-free experience at its security areas, Las Vegas McCarran Int. Airport invested in Vanderlande’s PAX CHECKPOINT automated screening lanes (ASLs).
In order to meet Istanbul Airport’s challenging deadlines and complex requirements, Vanderlande proposed an innovative, large-scale solution that combined hardware, software and life-cycle services.
At the heart of DHL’s air hub at Barajas Adolfo Suarez Airport is a Vanderlande sortation solution capable of processing more than 24,000 packages per hour.
To ensure that E.Leclerc Socamaine was able to meet its challenges head-on, Vanderlande proposed an integrated end-to-end solution – Automated Case Picking (ACP).
Rotterdam The Hague Airport (RTHA) is a regional airport located in the southwestern region of The Netherlands. During the 1990s, strong economic growth caused an increase in passenger numbers..
Vegalsa-Eroski is the leading retailer in the food distribution sector in Galicia, with a commercial network of 263 stores (owned and franchised) and 87 smaller enterprises. Sales are booming but getting enough product out to the stores had become a real challenge.
Rapid growth presented a number of challenges to Nova Poshta. These included the need to maximise capacity, as well as invest in automation to improve its competitive position and fulfil ever-growing market demand.
Two Vanderlande CROSSORTERs and a TRAYSORTER are helping Romanian parcel company FAN Courier successfully embrace the benefits of automation.
Würth chose to install Vanderlande’s highly flexible storage, retrieval and transportation system – ADAPTO. This makes optimal use of the available space in Riihimäki through its high storage density.
The ideal match for Asda’s brief was Vanderlande’s automated case picking (ACP) solution. The 28,600m2 DC now handles 840,000 cases per day and processes 7,800 SKUs.
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) – or Chek Lap Kok – is among the busiest airports in the world. In 2018, it is expected to handle over 73 million passengers and more than five million tonnes of cargo.
Rising parcel volumes and the additional demands of customers have forced French parcel distributor Ciblex to continuously improve its network and sortation processes.
To help Oslo Airport achieve its strategic ambitions and maintain a reliable operation, Vanderlande provides a comprehensive life-cycle services package. Its site-based team consists of 50 full-time employees, and it also delivers a broad range of asset and logistic services.
In 2009, Vanderlande delivered a material handling system to Rhenus at its site in Tilburg, The Netherlands. However, Rhenus’s main customer had recently experienced strong growth of approximately 30% per year. As a result, it approached Vanderlande to see how the system’s performance could be improved.
Positioned around 50km southwest of capital Reykjavík, Keflavík Airport is one of Iceland’s major transportation hubs. It is the largest airport on the island and the country’s main transfer site for international travellers.
How can business games contribute to continuous improvement programs? At Argos we did 3 games, respectively aiming at improving tote handling, increasing pick performance and increasing system availability.
Bergen Airport has grown to become the second-busiest airport in Norway. Under the ownership of the Avinor Group – a state-owned organisation that operates 45 airports in the country – Bergen’s expansion has been both consistent and positive. Passenger numbers have increased steadily and as a result, Bergen opened a new terminal in the summer of 2017.
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol has long been at the heart of Europe’s aviation industry. However, growth has been higher than anticipated in recent times, and the airport has to balance this with other factors. By partnering with Vanderlande, Schiphol aims to safeguard its position for many decades to come.
Oslo Airport is the second busiest airport in the Nordic region and aspiring to be among the top ten in Europe. However, due to anticipated growth, it had to consider its strategy surrounding future expansion.
Heathrow is one of the world’s busiest airports, serving 185 destinations. Enhancing its existing infrastructure is high on the agenda. As such, the airport has created the world’s largest integrated baggage system – Terminal 3 Integrated Baggage (T3IB).
URBN’s largest fulfilment centre in Gap, Pennsylvania handles a portfolio of global consumer brands. It opened in 2015 and allowed URBN the flexibility to move into the future.
Located in Richmond, British Columbia, Vancouver International Airport (YVR) processed just over a thousand passengers in its first year – 1931. Today, it is Canada’s second-busiest airport and served by 55 airlines.
Camper faced a number of challenges to improve its internal logistics processes. It had to cope with the different dimensions of cartons that are retrieved from 60,000 locations within the warehouse. It also had to ensure that the handling of loose-lid boxes was more efficient when processing replenishment orders.
ifm’s old warehouse was too small to handle its next phase of development. For its new warehouse, Vanderlande proposed ADAPTO, a highly flexible 3D storage, retrieval and transportation system.
Recio’s continued growth meant the system was approaching its peak capacity by 2012. To faciliate future growth, Recio needed an order processing system that combined state-of-the-art technology with traditional methods.
European parcel and express company DPD has opened one of Eastern Europe’s largest and most modern sorting facilities near Łódź, Poland. The facility represents the largest investment of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe and is situated at the centre of DPD’s diamond-shaped network in Poland.
One of the most modern and efficient meat-processing facilities in Europe was recently built in Rheinstetten, Baden Württemberg, Germany. At the facility, owned by EDEKA Südwest Fleisch GmbH, meat products are produced and delivered to over 1,250 outlets.