Challenge When in 2010 the global recession gripped the region, Coop reviewed its DC network and opted to consolidate slow-moving dry food goods from a number of DCs into a recently con- structed 45,000 m 2 facility in Odense. Originally built as a non-food DC, the Odense facility had an automated high bay warehouse with a storage capacity of 32,000 pallets. But a smart, inte- grated logistics solution was required to considerably upscale the operation. Coop wanted to expand the floorspace by a further 10,000 m 2 and repurpose the DC to efficiently manage the break-bulk distribution of non-food and dry food goods for Coop’s 1,200 retail outlets. Solution A key element to this transformation was creating a GTP picking system capable of breaking-bulk for slow- moving p

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