Solution
On a floor area of 22,500 m² is the storage and work area, the packaging and dispatch area and the EcoPocket with the loading areas.
With the EcoPocket, arvato can now automatically sort flat goods and shoe boxes. At the induct station, operators induct the goods into an opening under which an empty pocket suspended from the rail. Hanging goods to be sorted can also be added to the EcoPocket.
Regular stored goods enter the pockets via 11 induct stations. To avoid having to sort prepared returns into the manual warehouse first, they are temporarily stored in a returns store with a capacity of 70,000 parts.