E-commerce often involves relatively small products. These products vary enormously, think of clothing, books, electronics, household goods, home accessories, and so on. The high number of products requires distribution centers with ample storage capacity, equipped with racks that are suitable in design for this wide variety of small goods.
Is your space limited and do you need a lot of storage space suitable for intensive, manual order picking? Then our shelving systems are the solution for storing your products. We’d like to demonstrate this using a practical case study.
Read moreAmple storage capacity and efficient order picking speak for themselves, but in a distribution center, you also want:
CEVA Logistics knows how to bring all those needs together in a successful warehouse design. As a result, this company is in the global top 10 largest providers for supply-chain solutions. They were allowed to unleash their expertise on a new distribution center for one of the world's largest fashion E-commerce companies.
CEVA Logistics commissioned us to design, manufacture and install a large amount of shelving systems for this impressive distribution center. These racks accommodate as many as 177,000 shelves, good for 218,000 linear meters of storage.
This gives the end customer a substantial storage capacity, especially since the shelf racks can go a long way in height. The uprights are strong enough to support multiple mezzanine floors. In addition, you have:
In short, a sturdy, efficient solution for storing and picking products.
We also briefly mentioned the importance of working safely within a distribution center. That safety is also in the product itself. We designed the system so that the order picker feels safe in our system. For example, there are no sharp edges within reach of the order picker.
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Spacious storage capacity and efficient order picking process for the distribution center of a global E-commerce company.
Robust, modular and user-friendly shelf racks that can accommodate 177,000 shelves, providing 218,000 linear meters of storage space.
A distribution center with ample storage capacity, but also with overview and speed of action in the workplace.
The NEDCON head office is located in Doetinchem (The Netherlands). We also have our own production facility in Pardubice (Czech Republic) and there are NEDCON offices in various European countries and the United States.