Horizontal carousel warehouse (HoKa): The horizontal carousel warehouse as an alternative storage solution for automation
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Published on: July 16, 2021 / update from: September 21, 2021 - Author: Konrad Wolfenstein
Horizontal carousel warehouses ideal for start-ups and small to medium-sized e-commerce companies – Image: Xpert.Digital / SpeedKingz|Shutterstock.com
The horizontal carousel warehouse is a dynamic circulation warehouse. If there is a lack of upward space because the ceiling of the warehouse is very low, but it goes deep into the room on a horizontal level, a horizontal circulation warehouse is the ideal storage solution for automating warehouse logistics.
The transition from mechanical storage systems to automated to fully automated storage solutions is a major challenge of intralogistics 4.0 . Automation refers to the ability of machines to carry out a specific activity without human help and only through mechanics and software. Automation is the process that controls and guides automation. Full automation is when several areas of activity above a certain size work together autonomously and without human intervention via several processes (full automation).
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Due to the innovation engines of e-commerce and the Internet, society's general perception of the availability of goods, products and articles has generally changed. There is still a logical understanding among potential interested parties and buyers if the goods cannot be delivered and are available immediately within the next 8 hours, but only the following day. Very few consumers and buyers can imagine what kind of organizational work needs to be done. Both in physical machine technology as well as in the area of software and interfaces – internally and externally.
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With the Internet and e-commerce, many new companies have emerged, especially through sales platforms such as Amazon or Ebay. Classic stationary retail has now caught up with online retail and uses both sales channels.
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Where does the potential customer shop? - Comparison of sales channels: stationary retail & online retail
In Germany, 81% make their purchases in both brick-and-mortar stores and online stores. Another 7% said in a survey that they only shop online. 11% said they only shop in brick-and-mortar stores. This data is an excerpt from an online survey of 19,188 people aged 18 and over worldwide.
Where does the potential customer shop? – Comparison of sales channels: stationary retail & online retail – Image: Xpert.Digital
In Germany there are:
- 81,814 retail companies with 3 to 5 employees
- 76,160 retail companies with 6 to 19 employees
- 23,755 retail companies with 20 or more employees
Retail refers to companies that sell goods to non-commercial end consumers.
Number of companies in the retail sector in Germany
Company sizes in German retail – Image: Xpert.Digital
The statistics show the number of retail companies (excluding motor vehicle trading) in Germany by employee size class from 2010 to 2019. In 2019, there were an estimated 136,817 retail companies with one to two employees in Germany. Employees include working owners and helping family members. The statistics are based on a sample of around 8.5 percent of German trading companies.
Many of them are established companies. They didn't start out in a large warehouse or something similar, but mostly in ordinary buildings or properties whose size corresponds to the usual building standard. Not particularly high, optional expansion options mostly in depth or area. A move from the established structures and the usual mechanical and hand-managed warehousing is hardly possible for cost and organizational reasons.
Nevertheless, you want to keep up with the competition and at the same time increase the quality of performance.
In such a case, switching from a mechanical storage system to an automated storage solution with horizontal carousel warehouses is the best choice.
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The advantages of a horizontal carousel warehouse:
- No more manual search & find picking ( person-to-goods picking )
- 80 & productivity increase over conventional storage
- Time savings in order processing
- Time saving in picking
- Fast access times to goods
- Maximum throughput of goods
- 24/7 availability
The advantages of an automated horizontal carousel warehouse:
- Basis for just-in-time delivery / same-day delivery ( e-commerce ready , KEP ready , last mile logistics ready )
- Warehouse optimization , optimal automated storage of goods
- Ideal for automated goods returns management ➡️ Returns management: Manage returns fully automatically – desire & reality
- Order picking almost error-free
- Personnel savings
- Maximum productivity
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