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French fashion retailer selects Savoye

Savoye Logistics has been chosen by the French children’s fashion retailer, ïdgroup, to supply an automated platform at the French retailer’s distribution site at Leers, northern France. The new contract, worth over €4.0 million, will see Savoye providing a complete warehouse solution, which includes sorting, order fulfilment and packaging functions, as well as IT management of the automated part of the warehouse. The new 15,000 m2 facility will open in 2010 and will dispatch products to the 630 Okaïdi and Obaïbi stores across the world as well as servicing the Group’s online ordering capacity.

This will be ïdgroup’s first fully automated platform solution. Until now, order fulfilment has been carried out manually, with grouped collections using trolleys and a warehouse control system (WMS). Savoye has created a bespoke solution and customised automation programmes for ïdgroup’s logistics processes. With the exception of the storage area, which will remain manual, Savoye will be installing complete automated solutions throughout the entire warehouse. This will take place in two stages, with the initial phase planned to go live in January 2010. In 2011, a second sorting system will be added.

A ‘pick-to-light’ system, which uses a light indicator to inform the operator which item to pick for the order, will also be installed in a zone dedicated to order fulfilment, to make the operator’s task easier and quicker. All of the automated solutions will be controlled by Savoye’s warehouse control system and interfaced to operate with the WMS used by ïdgroup internally.

The facility’s two sorting solutions at Leers are intended to be fully operational by 2012 where over 14,000 active product references will be stored. On average, 12,000 boxes will be prepared daily and almost 500,000 items distributed. As the Group continues to grow through the development of the Obaïbi and Okaïdi brands, there is an option to commission a second building fitted with an identical installation near to the current facility at Leers.

Analytica _ 15th june 2009 _ www.analytica.com