Automation

Pallets coming from the production plants are carried into the intensive storage automated warehouse by 13 shuttles. Intelligent logistics software allocates the goods according to size, weight and volume, until the retrieval.
This system is used for heavy and bulky goods that need to be stored quickly and safety optimizing space.

Launched in 2019 for the management of low-turnover items, the miniload warehouse handles up to 3,000 stock items, stored either loose or in boxes. At the time of picking, the software tracks the items and, via conveyor belts, delivers them to the operator who packages them according to a pattern provided by the program itself.

Opened in 2021, the facility manages the preparation of orders for high-turnover beverage items using anthropomorphic robotic grippers. Pallet blocking operations (up to 45 simultaneous) are regulated by a “best fitting” algorithm to identify the optimal sequence of packages. Pallets are handled by automatic laser-guided vehicles.

Inside the section tested in 2023, 12 robots and 20 laser-guided vehicles sort fruit and vegetable items (placed in plastic crates suitable for handling with automated systems) to prepare orders for individual stores, both on pallets and on rolls.

Two refrigerated cells with 9,000 pallet spaces are equipped with automated mobile racking system to maximise storage space. Cell equipment is completed with gravity flow racking to manage single-item picking by the operator.