TGW automates new distribution centre Puma

Puma is building a highly automated distribution centre in Bavaria, Germany. The sports brand has engaged intralogistics specialist TGW to automate the building. For TGW, this is one of the largest orders in the company's history.

Puma started construction of the building at the beginning of this year and hopes to fully occupy it in spring 2021. Logistics service provider BLG Logistics will handle day-to-day operations at the premises by then.

It was up to TGW to automate the distribution centre, for which it had to use pretty much its entire portfolio. The intralogistics specialist designed a customised system based on the FlashPick system, a one-stop solution for automated single-piece picking.

Boxes from Puma are processed fully automatically in the new distribution centre. The shuttle warehouse will have 24 aisles, equipped with around 5,000 Stingray shuttles. This will accommodate 730,000 storage units, with the individual functional areas connected by more than 21 kilometres of conveyor technology.

Puma and TGW concluded a ten-year contract, which means that TGW will remain responsible for maintaining daily operations at the logistics centre even after implementation. More than thirty local specialists see to it that Puma's system functions day and night.