System Logistics: HBWH for Herdez, Mexico

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Grupo Herdez is one of the leading companies in the food industry in Mexico, with a major international presence in the USA and Canada. They decided to equip the new production site with a storage warehouse that would ensure high storage capacity and efficient management.
The warehouse designed by System Logistics is dedicated to finished product storage in an automatic vertical warehouse with a capacity of 37,440 pallet slots. The Automatic Vertical Warehouse is composed of four 112 ft high bi-pallet two-column stacker cranes that slide along an aisle 590 ft long
The picking concept applied by System Logistics to this system is the Pick to Pallet System (PPS). The picking warehouse is served by two 33 ft high stacker cranes,
The warehouse is connected to the main SVL by means of an elevator. The picking warehouse is situated within an SVL with 8 shuttles that deposit the source pallets on idle roller conveyors to perform the picking activities in the 5 pairs of bays
The system designed and constructed by System Logistics is capable of handling a flow of more than 4000 crates an hour for a peak of 65,000 crates a day.