The Challenge Princes built a new 361,660 sq ft warehouse at its soft drinks processing plant in Bradford UK, which produces 400 million bottles of fruit squash and carbonated soft drinks every year. Princes runs SAP as its core ERP platform and implemented SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) at the new warehouse facility. The site required two new 530m automated conveyors to deliver stock from production, over a road and into the new warehouse, with the conveyor system installed 12 months after the EWM implementation. Princes needed to integrate the new conveyor system with EWM, while the factory and warehouse remained operational. The Solution The only solution of its kind in the UK, The Config Team delivered complete integration of the automated conveyor system control

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