The challenge To achieve highly efficient store order fulfilment Halfords’ recently consolidated two DCs into a single new Distribution Centre in Coventry, which now holds all of the retailer’s range other then bicycles and serves Halfords’ entire network of 470 stores across the UK and the Republic of Ireland. This means ultra high throughputs are required from the new DC. The key to achieving this would be to create a small parts store for picking 10,000 Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) of small products quickly and accurately into order totes and then consolidating them for delivery to the stores. Our solution Working together with Halfords, Dematic designed a solution that located a small parts picking centre on a double deck mezzanine. Running along the entire 165 metre

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