S&P Computersysteme GmbH was commissioned by the general contractor for the automatic warehouse technology to realize the application software for the warehouse management computer. The system SuPCIS-L was used, whose standardized core functionality was supplemented by customer-specific requirements.
In the Good Time Holding warehouse, the following process organizational systems are managed:
- Incoming goods
- Storage preparation
- automatic high-bay warehouse as replenishment warehouse and for the removal of large quantities with 9,500 pallet spaces, 9 aisles with 2 SRMs with transfer bridges
- manually operated flow-through warehouse as picking warehouse (6 racks with a total of 3,000 flow-through channels and a capacity of 5,000 picks/shift)
- Manually operated special bearings
- automatic conveying technology
- Order combination
DV-technically,the warehouse management computer is embedded in the following hierarchy:
Corporate and operational control level: COMET on SIEMENS RM400 under SINIX
System control level: Warehouse management computer with SuPCIS-L
Plant and process level: SIEMENS SMP material flow computer for controlling and managing the stacker cranes and the automatic conveyor system
About Good Time Holding
Kiddinx Entertainment GmbH (own spelling: KIDDINX) is a German distribution and marketing company for radio plays, music, animated films and software for children. The best-known brands are the radio play series Bibi Blocksberg and Benjamin Blümchen.
Kiddinx is a subsidiary of Good Time Holding GmbH. With more than 150 million audio plays, DVDs, computer and console games sold, Kiddinx is the largest supplier of entertainment media for children in Germany.
Due to increasing sales, the consolidation of the entire logistics of Good Time Holding and in order to optimize the logistical processes in shipping, a new distribution center was built in Groß-Kienitz/Brandenburg.
The application software
- Notification of the order data from the host
- Incoming goods inspection with order reconciliation
- Preparation for storage with repacking if necessary
- Transport specification for the conveyor system
- Storage location determination for chaotic storage in high-bay warehouse or fixed location storage in picking warehouse
- Inventory management by part number, ownership and origin
- Transmission of delivery note data from the host
- Manual, automatic stock reservation according to strategies
- Whole carton picking in the high-bay warehouse; piece picking in the picking warehouse
- Plausibility check of the carton picking through automatic weighing
- Picking in the picking warehouse using route-optimised pick lists
- Minimum stock monitoring in the picking warehouse with automatic replenishment from the high-bay warehouse
- Bypass treatment
- Document creation for order combination and packaging
- Permanent inventory in the automatic warehouse
- Creation of goods inwards notifications or delivery notes as an emergency operation
- Operations management functions
- Extensive statistics and information system
The hardware and system software
BM RS/6000 with AIX operating system and Oracle Server database. Via a TCP/IP network 8 PCs are connected as workstations. The host connection is realized via TCP/IP as file transfer (FTP) - the data exchange takes place in short cycles. The connection to the subordinate control is a serial coupling via 3964R.
