Your Challenge
our solutions
warehouse automation
Our value
“
With the pick and sortation system of
Vanderlande we benefit from improved pick
accuracy and greater overall throughput
“
Staples
Today’s warehouses and distribution centres face a lot of
challenges: increasing labour costs, less available space and
frequent small orders with short delivery times. It’s a constant
search for solutions that reduce operational costs, generate
higher productivity, optimise space utilisation and enable high
service levels.
Working together
Your customers are increasingly demanding. Under pressure from rising operational costs and demands for shorter lead times, they need to get the right products
to the right place, on time, more frequently and at a competitive price. Through our
in-depth understanding of business processes in warehousing and distribution,
we provide competitive automated solutions for goods receiving, storage, order
picking, consolidation and shipping. We enable you to reduce your operational
costs and improve your delivery performance. Our flexible solutions meet your
changing market demands.
Our systems and services focus on improving your logistics processes and
increasing your logistics performance today, tomorrow and throughout the entire
life cycle. We collaborate closely with you, extending from initial business
process analysis through the total life-cycle support. To achieve this, we have a
wide product range and industry knowledge. We posses all the required capabilities in the relevant disciplines, ranging from system design through supply chain
management and manufacturing, to information and communication technology,
system integration, project management and customer services.
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UNDERSTANDING YOUR
business process
Our company
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The company implements material handling
systems of all sizes, ranging from many local
sorting depots, airports and distribution centres to
the world’s largest facilities. The company ranks
among the top 5 worldwide in its field
“
Magazine Modern Materials Handling
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YOUR CHALLENGE,
OUR SOLUTIONS
Vanderlande Industries is a leading supplier of automated
warehouses and distribution centres, with a track record of
over 1,000 satisfied customers in a wide range of industries.
We are also one of the leading international suppliers of
baggage handling systems at airports and sorting systems
in parcel and postal facilities.
Global player with local presence
We are a global player with experience in a wide range of industries around the
world. From food, fashion, business-to-consumer and automotive to pharmaceuticals, parts and components and personal care. We develop reliable and innovative
solutions in teamwork with our customers. Our headquarters are in Veghel, the
Netherlands, and we also have offices in Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy,
France, Spain, USA, South Africa, Russia, India, Canada, Argentina, Australia,
United Arab Emirates and China. Our local Customer Centres handle all key
business functions and maintain direct contact with our customers. Exceeding
customer expectations is what drives us, reflected by our core value: ‘building
reputations with customers’.
Excellent product and software portfolio
As well as a complete range of state-of-the-art material handling equipment, we
offer software to optimise system operation. These software products integrate
seamlessly into your IT infrastructure and provide management with
valuable real-time decision support intelligence.
CUSTOMER CENTERS
AGENTS
Our company
Putting people first
In a world of technology a belief in people. A safe and healthy working environment
is paramount in warehouses and distribution centres today. We take this responsibility very seriously, and as an industry leader we set ourselves high standards.
A key area of employee well-being in which Vanderlande Industries leads the
industry is ergonomics. We have invested significant time, resources and research
in designing our products so they best match the movements and cognitive
abilities of their individual users. For example, our ergonomic @EASE workstations
allow increased productivity by offering horizontal order picking and limiting vertical
movements. They encourage high accuracy and safety by using ‘pick-to-light’
displays, detection light grids and touch screens. Together this creates a fatiguefree working environment for operators, which improves working conditions and
significantly reduces the likelihood of RSI.
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Making a positive impact
Optimising energy efficiency is a must nowadays. Not only does it lower your
operational costs, it also reduces your carbon footprint. Supporting our customers
in improving the energy efficiency of their logistics processes is therefore one
of our top priorities. A good example is our Energy Scan programme, which has
allowed energy savings of more than 50% to be achieved. Delivering the highest
quality solutions is always our top priority. This extends right through to the
materials we use to create our products. That’s why our innovation strategy is
based on a circular economy concept known as ‘Cradle to Cradle’ design.
Under the Cradle to Cradle principles, we assess our materials not only by their
tangible properties, but also by their effects on humans, the environment and
their capacity for being recycled. This approach has already resulted in a unique
product based on these principles, the BLUEVEYOR conveyor belt, which is
the first system of its kind in the world.
Your challenge
“
Productivity is now much higher than before
and we have been able to reduce picking errors to
an absolute minimum
“
TVH forklift parts
Vanderlande Industries is dedicated to improving your business
processes and competitive position by providing automated
material handling systems and services. Our focus is to
increase your logistics performance today, tomorrow and
throughout the entire life cycle.
Increase your service level
Customers are placing increasingly tough demands on the service level of
warehouses and distribution centres: late cut off times, short order lead times,
more frequent deliveries of (smaller) orders, high delivery reliability, 100%
accuracy, store-friendly, shelf-ready product delivery. At the same time you need
to reduce costs and handle multiple retail formats, making operations increasingly
complex.
Automating warehouse logistics, based on a thorough understanding of your
supply chain and processes, provides many opportunities to increase your service
level. In fact, automation can even create completely new business opportunities.
Enhance employee engagement
You want to offer your employees an attractive working environment while at the
same time achieving high productivity and short learning curves. Vanderlande
Industries is aware that workstation design is a critical success factor to achieve
high employee engagement. That’s why we developed the @EASE workstation
range: its proven ergonomics enable your operators to maintain high productivity
for sustained working periods.
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IMPROVING YOUR
COMPETITIVE POSITION
Your challenge
Generate higher productivity
Generating higher productivity is a key challenge for warehouse managers today.
Automating warehouse logistics makes it possible to achieve pick rates of up to
1,000 lines per man-hour. As well as that, operators’ learning curves are no more
than 15 minutes. Ergonomic workstation design is crucial to achieve this level of
performance. Our Automated Case Picking (ACP) and Automated Tote Picking
(ATP) concepts even enable fully automated order picking, reducing dependency
on availability of labour.
Minimising energy consumption
Energy usage per order line in an automated warehouse is considerable lower than
in a manual warehouse. The main reason is that space utilisation and throughput
per m2/ft2 are much higher in an automated warehouse. There is also less need for
lighting, heating and cooling. In addition, the required numbers of forklift and order
picking trucks can be greatly reduced. Through our innovation process we aim
to minimise energy consumption, develop strategies that support energyefficient working processes and maximise the use of recycled and
re-usable materials.
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Optimise space utilization
Increasing storage density is one of the most important drivers for warehouse
automation. Many companies are running out of space, and want to process more
volume in the same building. Building traditional manual DCs is difficult and costly,
especially in highly populated areas. Our solutions can improve space utilisation
in your warehouse by up to 60%, and can triple the throughput per m2/ft2 in your
warehouse.
Reduce operational costs
Low margins make it necessary to reduce operational costs and improve efficiency.
Warehouse automation makes a significant contribution. Not only because of higher
operator productivity, but also through improved service levels, efficient space
utilisation and lower energy use, all of which have a direct impact. Even beyond
the warehouse itself, there is a lot of potential for operational cost reduction. Storefriendly, shelf-ready delivery significantly reduces the costs of in-store logistics and
creates high availability on the shelves. As well as that, optimal stacking of cartons
on pallets or in roll cages can reduce transport costs by up to 10%.
Our solutions
“
Thanks to the new small goods picking
system we have been able to reduce our logistic
costs and improve the service level to our
customers
“
Onninen oy
Through our in-depth understanding of business processes in
warehousing and distribution, we can provide you with competitive automated solutions for goods receiving, storage, order
picking, consolidation and shipping. Our flexible solutions
meet your changing market demands.
Automated storage and retrieval systems
Automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) are a key technology in modern
warehouse logistics, and are beneficial in a range of warehouse processes: bulk
storage, order picking and order consolidation. AS/RS systems enable storage
density to be increased by up to 60%.
Vanderlande Industries offers the QUICKSTORE range of AS/RS systems. This
range includes various miniloads, the HDS shuttle system and the Microshuttle.
These systems can be equipped with many different load handling devices.
QUICKSTORE AS/RS systems are developed and manufactured by Beewen,
a Vanderlande Industries company which is one of the leading European
suppliers of AS/RS systems.
Order picking systems
Order picking accounts for up to 60% of warehouse costs. Processing customer
orders quickly and accurately also has a direct impact on customer satisfaction.
Automated order picking systems can increase your productivity up to 1,000 lines
per man-hour, improve your picking accuracy up to 99.99% and enable you to
deliver higher customer service levels. Selecting the best order picking system for
your business depends on the characteristics of your operation and products. We
offer a broad range of order picking systems for loose products, cases and pallets,
including zone picking systems, goods-to-man systems and batch picking systems,
right up to fully automated case picking and tote picking systems.
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MEETING YOUR SYSTEM
REQUIREMENTS
Our solutions
Ergonomic solutions
We firmly believe that a workstation must be designed around the operator.
We have cooperated closely with TNO (Dutch Organisation for Applied Scientific
Research), Europe’s largest Institute in the field of ergonomics. This has resulted
in the successful launch of the @EASE workstation family:
- the PICK@EASE high-performance ergonomic order picking workstation
- the high-performance ergonomic packing workstation PACK@EASE
- the RECEIVE@EASE workstations which facilitate efficient and
ergonomic receiving of items
Sortation systems
Automated sortation systems improve productivity and delivery accuracy, and
reduce throughput times. They can be beneficial in several parts of the supply
chain: unloading of inbound containers, cross-docking processes, order picking,
shipping sortation and returns handling. Vanderlande Industries offers a broad
range of sortation systems, including both line sorters (sliding shoe sorters, pusher
sorters and pop-up sorters) and loop sorters (cross-belt sorters and tilt tray sorters).
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Software solutions
Software products are an integrated part of our solutions. Increasing numbers
of our systems are fully controlled by VISION, Vanderlande’s Warehouse
Management (WMS) and Control (WCS) System. VISION provides all the
required functionality to manage your warehouse processes, from goods receiving
to shipping. The scope of VISION covers both manual and fully automated
warehouses, using pallets, totes, cartons and loose products.
VISION includes complete turnkey solutions for the most critical warehouse
processes. These solutions include material flow handling, user applications for
picking, counting and exception handling, and management functions in a
web-based supervisor application (business process intelligence). The system
supports Value Added Services (VAS) and different user interface technologies.
Your performance
“
Vanderlande is our ideal partner. They
combine extremely efficient and innovative
products and experience in e-commerce logistics
with highest quality and reliability
GmbH & Co. KG.
“
myBrands Zalando eLogistics
Exceeding your customers’ increasing expectations with an
effective logistics process: that is the main goal of our customer
services. We provide a worldwide network of field service
engineering, full remote IT support facilities and a global spare
parts supply chain.
Daily support
Our goal is to keep your logistics process running efficiently. We offer maintenance
support from periodical inspections and spare parts supply to full 24/7 on-site
support by Vanderlande staff. We develop the package of maintenance and
support services that will most effectively meet your needs.
continuous optimization
You want your automated material handling system to operate optimally. However,
your system requirements can change over time. Our support services can be
extended by performance analysis, tooling and advice. These allow continuous
improvement of your system and logistics process performance, and support you
in responding to changing business conditions.
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OPTIMISING YOUR
OPERATIONS
our Track record
Vanderlande Industries is among the world’s leading suppliers
of warehouse automation, with a track record of automating
over 1,000 warehouses and distribution centres in recent years.
We develop solutions in teamwork with our customers. This
forms the basis for our solid reputation.
references
•
Nike
Multiple automated warehouses for Nike EMEA. The warehouses include
pallet high bay, miniloads, conveyor and sortation systems.
• Tommy Hilfiger
Order consolidation system for cartons with QUICKSTORE miniloads and
workstations. Operator productivity increased by 40%.
• Kaufland
Goods-to-man system for smaller, slow-moving grocery products; storing
and picking to 8,000 different products from 16 product families on only
7,500 m² floor space.
• Edeka
A state-of-the-art logistics system for a modern meat processing facility.
It includes a pallet high-bay storage system, 20-aisle QUICKSTORE HDS shuttle system, 2 PICK@EASE ergonomic workstations and a POSISORTER.
• Tesco
A dedicated Dot Com facility for grocery home shopping. After picking, totes are sent to a consolidation buffer consisting of a 3-aisle QUICKSTORE HDS
shuttle system. Vanderlande also offers 24/7 on-site maintenance and support.
• Onninen
The automated warehouse for this technical wholesaler includes a range of products from the ergonomic @EASE workstation family and a 4-aisle
QUICKSTORE HDS shuttle system. Warehouse control system VISION
manages the entire process.
• Audi
Together with Vanderlande Industries, Audi redesigned production
logistics for Just-in-time supply of complete wheels to its assembly lines.
A conveyor system links three of those lines to the QUICKSTORE
miniload system for temporary storage of finished wheels.
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