After six months of construction, the Austrian shopfitting company Umdasch opened its new logistics center in Wagna near Leibnitz at the end of 2018. It combines the former eight external warehouses and offers 17,000 square meters of space for over 23,000 pallets. The centralization and automation of key work processes shortens delivery times even further. Warehouse labeling from Onk also makes a significant contribution to this.

Umdasch realizes around 7,000 shopfitting projects per year: from individual solutions for classic food and non-food stores and showrooms for car dealerships to premium store systems at airports or cruise ships and the fitting out of flagship stores and pop-up stores. "The construction of the logistics center in southern Styria was the logical next step for us as part of our expansion at the location. With this central hub we are preparing ourselves for the future projects of our retail customers," explains Silvio Kirchmair, CEO of Umdasch.

The new location offers optimal conditions for storing, assembling and shipping store fittings to national and international retail customers throughout Europe. The concentration on a central warehouse results in a significant increase in efficiency throughout the entire process.

The ramp contacts of the trucks are reduced and the automation of work processes in the Industry 4.0 process accelerates the storage of all finished parts from the Austrian production sites as well as purchased parts. A flexible assembly line with individually configurable workstations will ensure that the assembled goods are loaded quickly. The project was implemented in a record construction period from April to October 2018.

Multi-levellabels for order pickers
Onk's warehouse labeling has also contributed to the fact that the central warehouse was able to start full operation at the beginning of 2019 and that storage and retrieval is now even faster. The company has produced multi-level labels so that the order pickers can also scan the high shelf positions without errors. They were attached to the lowest cross beam and show all the storage locations above on one label.

Each of the up to eight storage levels is assigned an individual color code and barcode. The adjacent barcodes are positioned and color-coded in such a way that incorrect scans are virtually impossible. In addition, directional arrows indicate the first and second height positions. This allows the order pickers to scan the high shelf levels from the floor without a long-range scanner.

Onk supplied barcode labels made of rigid PVC foam for the storage spaces at the rack aisles, which can withstand the high loads caused by forklift traffic. Up to three barcodes are arranged one below the other on each of the almost 500 labels attached to the uprights and the different storage levels are color-coded. as