BEUMER to supply sorting equipment and a control system to the automotive spare parts dealer Inter Cars:

Quick delivery of spare parts

Inter Cars SA, based in Warsaw, Poland, has commissioned the BEUMER Group to equip its new distribution center with conveying and sorting equipment, including a warehouse control system. BEUMER will serve as a systems integrator for the project. Inter Cars is establishing a new intralogistics system in order to meet the growing needs of its customers. The online supplier wants to deliver spare parts for cars even faster than before. The distribution center is scheduled for completion in June 2016.

Following a joint planning phase that ran for more than a year, Inter Cars has commissioned BEUMER to fit out its new main distribution center just outside of Warsaw with a complete conveying, order-picking and sorting system. The system will control all the functions, from goods reception to quality assurance, picking of goods, consignment and shipping. These areas will be connected by a conveyor system that is more than five kilometers long. One outstanding piece of equipment is the BEUMER BS7 Belt Tray Sorter with 361 end points designed for gentle handling of spare parts for cars. After being consolidated for customers, the orders will be distributed to 51 destinations by a sliding shoe sorter in the outgoing goods area. BEUMER will also supply a PLC-based machine control unit and a material flow computer for the whole distribution center. The system receives orders from the warehouse management system, which the customer ordered separately. “Order-picking, packaging and shipping can thus be coordinated, and the user can optimize the throughput, cutting costs,” explains Martin Mossinkoff, globally responsible director of Logistics Systems in the BEUMER Group. “Inter Cars will get the entire system from one source. In this way it will avoid interfaces and will have us as a contact for everything.” Employees from the Polish subsidiary of the BEUMER Group will help set up the system and put it into operation, because for the next five years they will be responsible for maintenance and servicing as part of the Residential Service agreement.

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Figure 1:One outstanding piece of equipment is the BEUMER BS7 Belt Tray Sorter with 361 end points designed for gentle handling of spare parts for cars.

Picture 2: When necessary, the technicians arrive as soon as possible on site thus avoiding longer downtimes.

Photos: BEUMER Group GmbH & Co. KG

TheBEUMER Group is an international manufacturing leader in intralogistics in the fields of conveying, loading, palletizing, packaging, sortation and distribution technology. Together with Crisplant a/s and Enexco Teknologies India Limited, BEUMER Group employed some 4,000 people in 2014. The group generated an annual turnover of approximately 680 million euros. With its subsidiaries and sales agencies, theBEUMER Group is present in many industries worldwide. For further information visit:

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