Home Bargains
Home Bargains is a leading high-street discount retailer, offering branded products at reduced prices to customers throughout the UK, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. To address recruitment challenges, Home Bargains invested in a fully automated marshalling solution from Lowpad. The primary objective of this investment was to address recruitment challenges and optimize the final stage of their modern warehouse facility. This creates a 24/7 operational system effectively managed by Lowpad's in-house developed fleet manager software.
Details
Industry
Retail distributionCountry
United KingdomApplication
MarshallingModel
Lowpad SSpecs
Type
BrownfieldRobots
91 RobotsLoad carriers
Roll cagesWMS
AS400throughput P/Hr
675 Roll cagesLEARN ALL ABOUT
THIS CASE
Fully automated marshalling process at Home Bargains
Challenge
How to effectively address recruitment challenges?
Due to its remote location, Home Bargains's regional distribution center in Amesbury has faced a major recruiting challenge. The center required a large workforce for labor-intensive and non-value-added tasks, which was difficult to find and retain. Home Bargains aimed to reduce the recruitment burden and operational costs by automating the marshalling process. The introduction of Lowpad significantly reduced the workforce, easing recruitment challenges and improving efficiency.
Solution
Large-scale automated marshaling solution
Lowpad successfully implemented a large-scale automated marshaling solution at Home Bargains. The system processes over 200,000 roll cages weekly using 91 Lowpad AMRs and 36 handover locations, 21 of which are fully automated. We created a fully integrated process by integrating new equipment with Home Bargains' existing systems. As a result, the already modern Amesbury distribution center is now working even more efficiently. Through the seamless integration of new equipment with Home Bargains’ existing infrastructure, Lowpad has effectively created a fully integrated process. This has enabled a streamlined, automated process from pallet intake into the warehouse to dispatch pick stock in roll cages, with minimal manual intervention required. The result is an effective, 24/7 operational system that significantly reduces the dependency on manual resources.
Lowpad has significantly reduced the number of workers required at our regional distribution center, addressing our recruitment challenges and resulting in substantial cost savings.
Chris Tilly
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