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PRODUCTIVITY SOLUTIONS FOR DISTRIBUTION, WAREHOUSING AND MANUFACTURING th SARY IVER mmh.com ANN April 2020 READER SURVEY 2020 Warehouse/DC Equipment Survey 26 SPECIAL REPORT Modex in review 36 BEST PRACTICES What does innovation mean to you? 44 Varner: EQUIPMENT REPORT Overhead handling 50 Building the INFORMATION MANAGEMENT Voice system evolution 56 world’s best warehouse 18 Anders Eriksson, the supply chain director for Varner AS MODERN system report Editor’s note: This story on Varner’s automated retail distribution center in Vänersborg, Sweden, is a continuation of our look at global order fulfillment, and our second set in Scandinavia. 18 A PRIL 2 0 2 0 / MODERN MATERIALS HANDLING mmh.com Building the world’s best warehouse That was the goal of Scandinavian retailer Varner. The result is a most highly automated, omni-channel retail distribution center, that is also flexible, cost-effective, ergonomic and sustainable. BY BOB TREBILCOCK, EXECUTIVE EDITOR rom the start of the project, of 10 unique retail chains, each with we declared that we wanted its own go-to-market strategy, along to build the best warehouse with a fast-growing e-commerce busi- in the world.” So says Anders ness. The materials handling systems “FEriksson, the supply chain director address robotic palletizing and depal- for Varner AS, one of Scandinavia’s letizing, automated pallet storage, largest retailers. Eriksson oversaw the automated case storage, automated design and implementation of a new garment-on-hanger (GOH) storage 500,000-square-foot, omni-channel and robotic goods-to-person piece distribution center in Vänersborg, picking. What’s more, it was designed Sweden.
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