E-fulfilment company Active Ants is expanding with a new 20,000-square-metre warehouse. The location in Roosendaal is to accommodate the company's growth.
A month ago, Active Ants took over counterpart MCS Fulfilment from Etten-Leur in Brabant. Less than twelve kilometres from the MCS sites, Active Ants will soon rent a new warehouse. This is no coincidence, explains Jeroen Dekker, Managing Partner at Active Ants. "We are going to move all MCS' activities to the new premises in Roosendaal. With this, we are going to immediately achieve higher efficiency on these orders and the new site in Roosendaal is already a bit filled."
More efficient than existing warehouse
The warehouse is currently under construction and will be occupied by Active Ants in the third quarter of 2020. A goods-to-man system from Autostore, consisting of 200,000 totes, and three automatic packing machines will process millions of parcels a year for hundreds of online shops in Roosendaal.
"Output per square metre will be even more efficient than in our current semi-automated warehouse in Nieuwegein," says Jeroen Dekker, Managing Partner at Active Ants. The e-fulfilment specialist has further developed its own warehouse software, achieving greater efficiency. Active Ants is also deploying various robotic technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and introducing a new way of order picking with the Autostore.
Location in Nieuwegein
Active Ants, part of bpost since 2018, is headquartered in Nieuwegein. The associated logistics site will remain in use. In 2020, the Autostore system there will be expanded to 80,000 bins. With this, the warehouse reaches maximum capacity, making expansion necessary, according to Active Ants.
