Bakers struggle with rising costs
Bakeries are among the commercial businesses with the highest energy requirements. This incurs costs, partly due to the energy-intensive production processes, but also to the high cost of transportation. In this branch, the potential for savings can mainly be found in the production and logistics processes.
A challenge, especially for logistics – innovative automation solutions from Westfalia are:
- cost-efficient, as more goods can be stored in less space
- flexible, as automatic operation in several shifts is possible
- improved quality, due to careful goods handling
Practical example: Kamps Brot und Backwaren – Lünen
The Kamps Group leads the baking industry in Germany and the Netherlands. As an innovative company, Kamps not only invests in new production facilities, but also adapts existing plants in line with the latest technical standards. According to the investor's plans, the production plant in Lünen was to be equipped with a deep freeze warehouse and a storage facility for packaging materials.
Innovative logistics leaves nothing to be desired by the customer
Westfalia's scope of supply included 5 storage/retrieval vehicles, racks, Satellite® profiles and materials handling technology. A warehouse management computer system plus software was also to be provided by Westfalia. By investing in an automated warehouse, Kamps AG maintained its policy of consistent logistics optimisation. Networking production with the automated Satellite® deep freeze warehouse offers options e.g., for fast coordination between the sale and renewed production of an article. – A key requisite for flexible production, so catering for customer needs at all times more...
The Westfalia system portfolio for the baking industry:
- Automated pallet logistics
- Order picking systems
- Batch tracing systems
- Truck guidance systems
- Inventory management systems