Eobuwie.pl, Bonito.pl, and M.B.B. Logistics are just some of the companies in the e-commerce industry that have recently benefited from the comprehensive offer of PROMAG S.A. to streamline internal logistics and improve customer service speed.
E-commerce is currently the most dynamically developing sector of the Polish economy. It is estimated that the share of e-commerce in retail sales is already 7%. Along with the development of the entire sector, the companies operating within it are also growing. This brings the need to invest in their own facilities, primarily logistics and warehouses, which allow for handling an increasing number of orders and customers on time. According to Karolina Tokarz, Vice President of the Management Board and Director of Sales and Marketing at PROMAG S.A., logistics processes in traditional trade and online sales are generally carried out in a very similar way. However, companies selling their products online face a slightly different scale of problems, and consequently, require a different approach.
– In e-commerce, we deal with a high fragmentation of shipments and a large number of delivery points. For these reasons, intralogistics in the warehouse requires different organization and different infrastructure than is the case in traditional trading companies. Enterprises specializing in e-commerce that want to increase their market competitiveness should invest in solutions that will primarily allow them to optimize picking processes, reduce the number of errors, and increase the efficiency of implemented processes – says Karolina Tokarz from PROMAG S.A.
In e-commerce, a combination of storage systems such as DIMAX shelving, PHR or APR pallet racking, and mezzanine floors with internal transport systems in the form of vertical and horizontal conveyors works very well. Especially if they are integrated with a WMS system. And these are exactly the solutions that more and more Polish e-commerce companies are choosing.
M.B.B. Logistics – up to 15,000 shipments per day
A good example is the company M.B.B. Logistics from Słubice, which specializes in logistics services for the e-commerce industry in Germany. In the newly built warehouse with an area of 5,800 sqm, PROMAG S.A. installed a three-level storage system based on DIMAX shelving, which will additionally be connected to an automatic horizontal transport system in 2016. Thanks to this, the throughput of the entire system will reach 1,500 containers/h. The solution takes into account the company’s further development and has been designed to handle up to 15,000 shipments per day.
– The dynamic growth of our clients’ sales has contributed to the development of internal logistics. At one point, we were faced with the task of finding a system that would guarantee the possibility of very efficient storage of many thousands of items, while simultaneously shortening the picking time, which would consequently contribute to shortening the processing time of a single order. We decided to implement the solution offered by PROMAG S.A. – says Maciej Korlak, General Manager at M.B.B. Logistics Sp. z o.o.
Bonito.pl, or how to handle 150,000 book orders in a month
Bonito.pl is the largest Polish online bookstore (www.bonito.pl). It has a warehouse located at the Goodman Kraków Airport Logistics Centre, handling 150,000 orders per month. It can hold as many as 1,000,000 copies of books.
– After conducting an initial audit, identifying needs, and indicating directions for improvement, we concluded that the best option would be to install DIMAX shelving and PHR pallet racking operated using warehouse ladders. Additionally, the shelving was equipped with special nets that protect books from tipping over and falling off the shelves. We did not use mezzanine floors in this warehouse because it was not necessary – says Karolina Tokarz from PROMAG S.A.
As Karolina Tokarz emphasizes, all solutions proposed by PROMAG S.A. in these specific implementations work perfectly in all e-commerce warehouses where the number and variety of assortment items are very large. On one hand, they ensure maximum use of the available warehouse volume, which in turn allows for maximizing the number of SKUs available “off the shelf.” On the other hand, they ensure high efficiency of the storage system, which directly translates into shortening the time of a single picking operation. And in e-commerce, this is a parameter that very often determines the competitive advantage in the market.