Maximum Storage Density
Holistic Automation in Food Logistics – One System for All Requirements
In food logistics, dry goods, beverages, and temperature-sensitive products converge. Advasolutions' shuttle-based storage system fully automates your food warehouse and masters the diversity of food logistics: from pallet retrieval to small parts picking, from goods receipt to dispatch. Heavy loads, delicate packaging, or seasonal peaks? No problem! You increase your storage density, reduce picking errors, ensure product-friendly handling, secure traceability, and thus become more efficient, economical, and future-proof.
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Challenges in Modern Food and Beverage Logistics
Everyday operations in food logistics are a balancing act between variety, speed, and strict regulations. The industry grapples with immense article complexity, varying product diversity, intense promotional pressure, and high demands for hygiene and efficiency. Simultaneously, expectations for same-day or next-day deliveries are rising, despite skilled labor shortages and tight margin pressure. Only those who automate processes can manage this complexity.
Product and Packaging Variety
Simultaneously handling heavy crates, PET packs, delicate cardboard packaging, glass, fresh produce, and mixed pallets requires high flexibility.
Seamless Traceability
MHD, batch numbers, and serial identifications must be seamlessly documented across all areas and retrievable at any time.
High Hygiene and Quality Requirements
Regulations such as HACCP/IFS and customer-specific audit requirements must be strictly adhered to. Open or damaged products pose contamination risks throughout the entire warehouse.
Temperature Control
Ensuring the cold chain for fresh produce while maintaining efficiency in the dry goods area.
Space Utilization & Storage Density
High stock levels, especially for dry goods, and seasonal promotional items require maximum storage density with efficient throughput.
Promotional Peaks
Promotions and seasonal peaks require extreme flexibility in food logistics and rapid scalability.
Physical Strain
Heavy containers and working in refrigerated areas physically strain employees and require ergonomic solutions.
Your warehouse automation with advasolutions: Robust, gentle, fast
The scalable advasolutions warehouse solution, a combination of robust hardware and intelligent software, was developed to address the entire complexity of food logistics – from the enormous variety of items and best-before date requirements to seasonal peaks. For your dry goods as well as your fresh products.
At the heart of the solution are autonomous shuttles that reliably and gently move cartons, beverage packs, can trays, or mixed goods horizontally, vertically, and laterally. The various products are transported on trays or directly in their packaging without rigid container requirements, which saves storage space and makes the system flexible. The robust, modular advaRack shelving system optimally utilizes the available hall size and can be precisely adapted to existing storage areas. On the stable storage shelves, the advaShelves, items up to 800 × 600 × 600 mm and 25 kg are stored securely and space-efficiently.
Before storage, advaInbound ensures the complete capture of all important product information such as best-before dates, batch numbers, weight, dimensions, and packaging characteristics. Automated data capture, including image capture, forms the basis for complete traceability and supports efficient strategies like FIFO or FEFO. Even products without clear identification on the packaging are identified once, either manually or AI-based, during the initial capture and then uniquely assigned within the system. This allows these products to be reliably automatically recognized, tracked, and controlled throughout the subsequent process.
At the other end, advaOutbound precisely controls outbound processes according to order type, route planning, or store logic. The system ensures that products are ready in the correct sequence, sensitive items are handled gently, and promotional goods can be processed quickly and cleanly.
Our proprietary Warehouse Execution System (WES) acts as a digital twin of your warehouse
It tracks all warehouse movements in real-time, optimizes storage location assignment, manages best-before dates, batch, and serial number logic, and ensures your goods are available at the right time. Via standard interfaces, the WES can be seamlessly connected to existing WMS and ERP systems.
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Benefits for Your Food Logistics Strategy
Implementing our automation solution provides tangible competitive advantages for your food logistics company:
Less Breakage, Less Crushing, Fewer Complaints
Controlled and gentle movements within the system significantly minimize glass breakage, damaged packaging, and spilled goods.
Employee Relief
Heavy lifting, work in extreme temperature ranges, and long distances within the warehouse are eliminated. This increases occupational safety, enhances attractiveness as an employer, and reduces illness-related absences.
High Storage Density & Space Productivity
Vertical and horizontal storage capacities are utilized to the maximum. Manual aisles are eliminated, storage locations are variable, and inventories can be efficiently consolidated.
Seamless Traceability
Every item and every goods movement is documented – including best-before date, batch, and serial number. You reliably meet legal requirements and audit specifications and can react quickly in the event of a complaint.
Scalability
The system grows with your requirements. Additional shuttles, shelf compartments, or zones can be added modularly. This allows performance to be easily scaled up during growth or seasonal peaks (Easter, Christmas, promotions) without having to redesign the entire system.
A tailored system for all areas of food logistics
The advasolutions shuttle system covers the entire range of your products:
Beverage Logistics: Safe and efficient handling of PET packs, glass bottles, can trays, and beverage crates with high load capacity and gentle movements. Breakage, leaks, and damage are reduced.
Dry Goods (Ambient): Maximum storage density and throughput for pasta, rice, canned goods, baking ingredients, and muesli packaging.
Confectionery & Snacks: Gentle transport for pressure-sensitive goods such as chips, pastries, and chocolate packaging. Automated processes prevent crushing, breakage, and temperature fluctuations, even for seasonal assortments.
Fresh Produce Logistics: Uninterrupted cold chain integrity for perishable goods such as fruits, vegetables, or dairy products. advasolutions offers specialized solutions for fresh products, including stable temperature control down to +3 degrees Celsius and hygienically optimized processes.
Automated warehouse solutions along your value chain
We support various players in the food supply chain. The requirements vary – the foundation remains the same.
Retail & E-Commerce: Whether it's a central warehouse for brick-and-mortar food retail, omnichannel distribution, or pure e-commerce sites: The shuttle system supports short lead times, efficient store delivery, and fast picking for end customers.
3PL: Multi-client structures enable the simultaneous handling of various clients, product categories, and temperature zones. They increase the utilization of your space, standardize processes, and can reliably meet individual service levels for each client.
Your Path to Efficient Food Logistics
The transition to an automated warehouse is a strategic step. We support you as a reliable partner throughout the entire process – from the initial analysis to the ongoing operation of your automated food warehouse. Our proven 3-phase process:
1. Analysis & Concept
We analyze your specific article structure, volumes, temperature zones, and inventory strategies (from beverage crates to dry goods) and develop a customized concept.
2. Implementation & Integration
The modular shuttle system is integrated into your warehouse environment, building, and IT landscape, and connected to your WMS and ERP systems – without disrupting ongoing operations.
3. Operations & Scaling
We go live, train your staff, support the ramp-up phase, and ensure stable processes. Through monitoring, service, and continuous optimization, we continuously develop your automated food warehouse together.
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