Completed WMS projects
Dr. Thomas + Partner Materialflussplanung und Automatisierungstechnik GmbH

Manuall Sort-Picking
Customers
Habermaaß
Completion
10.04.2006
Country
Germany
Branch
- Mail order industry
Description
Task description
Habermaaß manufactures toys, children’s wear, children’s furniture, playground equipment and craft materials.
The customer order structure of the distribution centre Bad Rodach is heterogeneous. Therefore different picking methods had to satisfy different order profiles.
Solutions: Already in 1998 DR. THOMAS + PARTNER reorganised the internal distribution for Habermaaß. The throughput was increased by dynamic order management, packing station and invoice printer allocation were made more flexible and a transparent and secure inventory recording was established.
Afterwards the system was extended step-by-step according to the master plan. The aim was:
- To replace the existing forwarding plant
- To redesign the conveyors to enable batch picking
- To define two migration steps
- Manual sort picking (MSP)
- Specialties packaging
The migration of the new processes was conducted without a production stop.
THOMAS + PARTNER provided:
- The system design
- The draft layout
- A detailed specification and tender documents
- The manual sort picking
The result:
- Short cycle times due to parallel picking
- High rate of return per tour due to short routes and large consignments
- Smooth packing flow at mobile packing stations






















































































