Central Belt Orderbuffer System

Central Belt Orderbuffer System

TBWB successfully designed and implemented the "Central Belt Orderbuffer: a powerful total solution of advanced hardware and intelligent software that seamlessly automates the entire picking and transport process.

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Challenge

Challenge

Sanicare-Versandapotheke, one of Germany's largest online pharmacies, delivers thousands of medical orders daily with the highest safety and quality controls. To continue guaranteeing their fast, reliable service, the heart of their warehouse in Bad Laer needed to be modernized. The existing software for the central conveyor belt—which connected the BD Rowa Vmax robots to the drop points—was severely outdated. Additionally, there was a lack of a modern middleware layer between the overarching SAP system and the physical conveyor belts. TBWB was given the challenging task of flawlessly renewing this complex process without disrupting the daily flow of medications.

Solution

TBWB successfully designed and implemented the "Central Belt Orderbuffer: a powerful total solution of advanced hardware and intelligent software that seamlessly automates the entire picking and transport process.

Our delivered solution offers Sanicare the following key benefits:

  • Smart software architecture: The implementation of our proprietary StockControl software (for seamless order and inventory management directly linked to SAP) and FlowControl (for the flawless physical control of the conveyor belts and boxes).

  • Fully automated order picking: Medications are picked individually, rapidly, and safely by the Rowa Vmax systems and temporarily buffered in so-called SKUBins. As soon as the correct box on the central conveyor belt passes the drop point, the order falls into the shipping box with perfect timing.

  • State-of-the-art hardware: Installation of a completely new modular conveyor platform, lightning-fast barcode scanners, precise Drop Points, and brand-new control cabinets.

  • Optimized inbound and outbound processing: The new system streamlines both inbounding (with direct inventory feedback to SAP) and outbounding, where orders are made fully ready for shipment automatically.

The result? A highly efficient, safe, and future-proof logistics process This allows Sanicare to confidently fulfill its promise to its customers—a fast, discrete, and error-free delivery of important medications—every single day!

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