Location Schlüchtern

Engelbert Strauss, a leading provider of work and safety clothing as well as protective equipment, supplies customers worldwide. 

Since 2020, BLG Logistics has been operating the highly automated Omnichannel European Distribution Center Strauss CI Factory at the Schlüchtern location.

✓ 70,000m² logistics area

✓ 13 kilometers of conveyor technology 

✓ Nearly 1 million storage locations

✓ Depending on B2B/B2C share, up to 4,000 ready-to-ship packages per hour

✓ More than 30 nationalities with diverse qualifications

CONNECTED WAREHOUSE

Our context as a solution and development partner

With BLG as a partner, our customer benefits from the optimal and highly productive integration of "People & Technology." BLG intelligently transforms digitalization. The focus remains on the customer, performance, quality, and sustainability. As a result, and through respectful collaboration, what truly matters is created: Customer Experience!

INBOUND GOODS

Our inbound goods handling includes the receipt, inspection, and storage of goods delivered from around the world to ensure a smooth and efficient process within the supply chain. Likewise, return packages are received.

Area functions:

  • Inbound office
  • Unloading (carton and pallet handling)
  • External replenishment into the logistics network
  • Inbound post-processing
  • Quality assurance
  • Return receipt

✓ Up to 100 container unloadings per week

PICKING

The balanced interaction between a highly automated picking system and our BLG team enables the assembly of customer packages at record speed.

Area functions:

  • Goods-to-person picking
  • Bag picking
  • Pallet/large volume/flow rack (A-items) picking
  • Exception handling
  • Source carton opening
  • Customer carton erecting

✓ Up to 400 order lines per workstation/hour

AKL

The automatic carton warehouse has a total capacity of approximately 450,000 carton storage locations and serves as both a replenishment warehouse for the shuttle system, which supplies the picking workstations with goods, and as a buffer warehouse for full cartons that are directly forwarded to outbound goods via cross-docking.

✓ Total capacity of approximately 450,000 carton storage locations

✓ The rack rows are about 19 meters high and 80 meters long

✓ 3-deep carton storage

✓ 20 aisles

✓ First-in, first-out consumption method

SHUTTLE

The world's most powerful shuttle warehouse ensures the supply of the picking area with source cartons (original goods). Here, 420 shuttle vehicles flexibly store and retrieve the cartons.

✓ Total capacity of approximately 450,000 storage locations

✓ 16 aisles

✓ 7 maintenance levels

✓ 420 shuttle vehicles

OUTBOUND GOODS

After the picking process, the customer order is forwarded to outbound goods for completion (finish) and prepared for national and international shipping.

Area functions:

  • Outbound post-processing
  • Printer and lid line
  • Loading docks

✓ Ensuring same-day shipping for all orders received by 5:00 PM

✓ 24-hour delivery service

RETURNS

Our integrated returns handling ensures quick processing of returned goods. This includes receipt, inspection, refund or exchange of items, and integration into the overall system for re-picking of returns.

Area functions:

  • Unpacking workstation
  • Exception handling
  • Foreign processing
  • Branch processing
  • Service office

VALUE ADDED SERVICES

Challenges offer opportunities to become even better. We implement new activities, whether process- or product-oriented, that add value for our customers.

Outbound goods:

  • Processing orders to fulfill individual customer needs
  • Customs shipping
  • Freight forwarding 

Returns:

  • Unique returns handling from pop-up stores
  • Returns cleaning in case of contamination
  • Refurbishment of damaged return goods for a sustainable circular economy

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