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the customer
the abena group is a danish, family owned company established in 1953. they are among the market leaders in the protective healthcare business producing a wide range of incontinence products,baby nappies, sanitary towels and other healthcare-related disposable goods.abena products are sold around the world through a distributor network of subsidiary companies and specialist distributors. the company markets some19,000 products not only to retail outlets and wholesalers, but also directly to various healthcare organizations and consumers. sales via web shop(abenaonline/abenaprivate) and monthly subscriptions is a growing business. abena has a fully automated warehouse in aabenraa, quite far south in denmark.

1  task definition
due to the increased internet sales and increasing number of subscription customers, they experienced a rapid growth in sales of smaller quantities and an increased need to breech packaging, new commissioning and repacking to each customer exact need. they started to handle this manually in the end of the fully automated warehouse, however realized soon that this was not efficient enough. especially due to the fact that the efficient picking process for the fully automated warehouse resulted in very high peaks in manual handling. therefore they started to look for a solution to handle this process more efficient.

2    solution
in a close cooperation with kardex the new process was defined: 18 kardex shuttles xp with light indicators, wireless picking trolleys with pick to light solution integrated with kardex power pick global.the innovative solution is integrated with their corporate wms system sattstore from consafe. the functionality of kardex dynamic zones secures extremely efficient picking. the pick to light devices secures zero picking errors. the system has helped abena to be able to commission these small orders very smooth without tedious peeks. furthermore they have achieved far higher picking efficiency than before, and a more ergonomic working environment for the operators. they were amazed how easy the system is to use. first of all they were at requested efficiency only two weeks after installation. secondly a new operator are able to work at top performance just after a short introduction to the system.