The Challenges In 2017, CASA International, an international interior retail chain with more than 500 subsidiaries in nine European countries, implemented its new strategic master plan, known as CASA 2020. A logistics master plan that is geared towards the future was also rolled out at the same time. “All of our logistics activities are thereby centralized in a new, largely automated European DC,” explained Bart Dauwen, Warehouse Manager at CASA International. Essential Investment The new building in Olen, Belgium, measures more than 500,000 ft 2 (50,000 m 2 )and it can hold 65,000 pallets. The total investment for project amounts to $40 million (€35 million), but according to Dauwen, this was an absolutely necessary investment, partly in view of the developments in e-

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