HORTIM INTERNATIONAL SPOL. S R.O. Brno, Czech Republic
Hortim enters a new era: New sales and distribution units opened in Brno and Senec Hortim International provides a comprehensive service in the field of fruit and vegetables, from growing and importing through storage, ripening, packaging and subsequent export. It prefers to supply fresh fruit and vegetables from domestic production and out-of-season domestic markets, taking advantage of the synergies of the international Total Produce group, one of the world’s largest suppliers of fresh produce. In order to improve its services, the company decided to increase its handling and storage capabilities and to built two brand new warehouses in two years.
Project Senec Together with its major customer COOP Jednota SK, which has over 2,200 supermarkets and food retail outlets, Hortim has built a modern semi-automated operation in Slovakia, unique in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The company’s motto is to deliver fresh goods of the highest quality. To this end it has opted for process automation of its new refrigerated logistics platform. The result is a complete digital operation system in which, through technologies such as IoT (Internet of Things), AI (Artificial Intelligence) and digital twins, logistics operations and supply processes are dynamically controlled across the material flow of the operation - from receipt of goods to dispatch of customer orders.
New distribution centre in Senec, Slovakia
maximize efficiency in the work process. This innovative food logistics solution manages processes with the fewest resources while achieving the highest operational performance. This means that fruit and vegetables can reach customers within 24 hours of picking by home growers. This new logistics platform also includes new hardware devices that have not been used in the Hortim Group before. These include, for example, pallet stackers up to 10 m above the ground with special self-propelled forklifts. Induction strips are installed on the ground to control the travel of the trucks. They cannot be deflected out of their intended path. Furthermore, the trolleys are sized to pass through narrower racks. Thus, instead of 1 rack of goods, 3 racks can be built.
On 14th August 2020, a modern, new distribution unit with an area of more than 10,000 sqm and up to 1,500 tons of fresh fruit and vegetables was opened in Senec, Slovakia. From the outside, this warehouse will impress one with its size and clean design that evokes stability and precision. Precision work and a high level of commitment are a matter of course here. The new warehouse is managed by a WMS (Warehouse Management System), a system where the flow of goods and stock, including all operational efficiency, is controlled by computer technology. Thanks to this dynamic management, the centre can dispatch fruit and vegetables within a few tens of minutes of receiving an order, while being able to process up to 1,500 orders per day. What makes this project special? The new logistics centre is managed by intelligent technology that controls operations to avoid human error and 36 76
Brno HQ, new distribution centre
The picking process is also divided into picking with trolleys that have built-in tablets connected via Wi-Fi to the WMS,
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