Grocery retail giants rely on automation from Cimcorp

As grocery retailers look to increase their automation level, Cimcorp’s expertise plays a vital role in helping them meet consumers’ demands. Successful collaboration with leading grocery chains demonstrates the potential of Cimcorp’s automation to transform the food supply chain and ensure sustainable growth in the grocery retail industry. ??

Cimcorp is a pioneer in intralogistics solutions, simplifying material flows and improving customers’ profitability by offering unique and efficient automation solutions. Through its logistics systems, Cimcorp provides its customers with the freedom to focus on their core business and offers them peace of mind.

From field to store within 24 hours – fresher than ever

Freshness is a paramount consumer requirement that poses challenges for grocery logistics. With Cimcorp’s solution, grocery retailers have been able to halve logistics delivery times from field to store.

For example, Cimcorp’s intralogistics solution has revolutionized the order-fulfillment process of the Spanish supermarket giant, Mercadona , enabling the delivery of fresh and seasonal produce to stores within 24 hours .

In order picking, speed and precision are decisive for product quality. Boasting the largest range of groceries in the discount segment, German food retailer, Netto Marken-Discount also automated its fresh produce logistics with Cimcorp.

Fresh produce has a limited shelf life and it will easily spoil or lose its nutritional value. With Cimcorp’s automation expertise, Edeka Freienbrink – part of the largest German supermarket chain, Edeka Group – delivers fresh produce to its stores within 4-5 hours of receiving orders.

Securing employee safety and wellbeing

Automation can also alleviate ergonomic and labor issues, enabling operations to run in a faster and safer way.

At Edeka Freienbrink, the system takes care of the heavy lifting and physical work, allowing Edeka to rely on fewer people at the facility and making it easier to manage. Automation leads to a more pleasant work environment, allowing employees to focus on problem solving and critical thinking.

Mercadona’s approach to the benefits of automation is very employee-centric . Securing employee safety and avoiding excessive workload are top priorities.

Towards more eco-friendly supply chains

Automation and strategically planned intralogistics can enable businesses to become greener.

Optimizing intralogistics results in a faster supply chain. This enables longer shelf life, leading to less food waste.

Cimcorp has helped many grocers to utilize reusable plastic crates (RPCs). RPCs can be used thousands of times, replacing cardboard boxes for transport for fresh produce from the farm to the store shelf.

Then Cimcorp’s Warehouse Control System (WCS) helps organize intralogistics and streamline the overall supply chain. Optimizing the loading of delivery vehicles leads to fuller trucks and therefore fewer trucks, reducing CO2 emissions.

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