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28.03.2024
Mercadona relies on WITRON also for its 16th automated distribution center
At the end of December 2023, MERCADONA awarded the WITRON Group with the construction of a new 15,000 square meter dry goods distribution center in Guadix (Granada) in southern Spain. This is already the 16th automated logistics center that WITRON designs and realizes for MERCADONA - with a total of 203 COM machines in the dry, fresh, and frozen food sector.
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29.01.2024
WITRON customers rely on quality and cost-efficiency
Despite a difficult geopolitical situation worldwide, WITRON succeeded in increasing its record sales of 2022 by a further 8.34 percent to 1.3 billion EUR in 2023. The number of employees across the Group grew from 5,900 to 7,000 staff members. According to WITRON founder and owner Walter Winkler, this clearly demonstrates the trust of WITRON customers in the quality and cost-efficiency of the automated solutions from the Parkstein-based logistics lifetime partner, as well as the trust of employees in the exceptional corporate culture of the family-owned enterprise.
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23.11.2023
20 years of OPM: Automation for 100 million consumers
The revolution in food retail logistics began in Parkstein in 2003. Today, the OPM system is the world’s most successful fully automated logistics and order picking system for cases. It all started with a cake lifter.
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WITRON’s logistics podcast

WITRON’s logistics podcast is published once a month and always focuses on different logistics aspects. We report on customer projects, on our strategy, but also on developments in the industry. Sometimes, texts, interviews, or infographics also emerge from the podcast. We share knowledge.

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16.04.2024
Our guest is Alexander Schweizer. He is the project manager for the new omnichannel distribution centre of Migros Verteilbetrieb AG (MVB) in Neuendorf (near Basel). The logistics centre is one of the most dynamic in the world.
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News from the ideas room

In WITRON’s ideas room, you will find many different topics around logistics. For us, the ideas room is a knowledge platform. It was launched in 2019. There, our guests discuss about technology, processes, digitalization, and management topics with the editorial staff or WITRON managers. Scientists as well as many international customers of WITRON talk about their experiences. Migros, Asko, or Spar report on their logistics strategies.

In addition, suppliers are also always part of the round table discussions. The posts are enriched with podcasts, infographics, videos, and surveys. The ideas room is thus a multimedia platform for retail logistics that does not yet exist in this form. If you would like to be part of the ideas room yourself, please contact our marketing department. We are always looking forward to exciting logistics topics. Important to us: The focus is not on products, but on strategies and technologies.

16.04.2024 - 8 minutes reading time
Flexibility is the match-winner
Switzerland is known throughout the world: For its stable economic system, for the quality, design, and precision of the watches manufactured there, the impressive mountain scenery, and the success of its winter sports athletes. Switzerland also stands for innovation. This innovative strength is also evident in the omni-channel distribution center of Migros Verteilbetrieb AG (MVB) in Neuendorf (near Basel), which, according to MVB Project Manager Alexander Schweizer, belongs to the “unmitigated Champions League” and is one of the most dynamic logistics centers in the world. It was designed and implemented by the logistics lifetime partner WITRON. The main building, which houses the near- and non-food area, supplies more than 700 stores and many thousands of home shopping customers from a range of 100,000+ items per year. On a peak day, WITRON’s OPM, AIO, CPS systems pick more than 470,000 cases.
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22.11.2023 - 7 minutes reading time
Automation for 100 million consumers
The revolution in food retail logistics began in Parkstein in 2003. Today, the OPM system is the world’s most successful fully automated logistics and order picking system for cases. It all started with a cake lifter.
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14.09.2023 - 8 minutes reading time
30 percent more throughput during ongoing operations
Expanding a highly dynamic multi-temperature logistics center for roughly 1,200 stores during ongoing operations with an increase in pick performance by more than 30 percent daily, is a tremendous challenge as such. But when, in addition, store and online orders continue to soar due to various lockdowns and the teams are only allowed to work with severe limitations because of Covid 19 restrictions, then a lot more than just technical and organizational knowledge is needed on both sides for the project to succeed. WITRON and the food retailer COOP from Norway have demonstrated this impressively.
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