High-bay Warehouse

Our client was planning a new high-bay materials warehouse with more than 13,000 pallet positions as well as a conveyor system connecting the beverage filling lines in the attached production area to the Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) as well as the despatch area. The warehouse will serve as the National Distribution Center serving many major clients and regional distribution hubs.
We were requested by the equipment supplier to run a full simulation study during the bidding stage to validate the layout and system performance. The high-bay warehouse project consists of 2 phases, the first to be completed in 2016 and the expansion to be completed by 2020, which will increase the planned output from about 150 pallets per hour to more than 260 pallets per hour.

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