Shortfacts - April 2020

Ernsting's Family expands e-commerce logistics

Inconso and Ernsting's Family are continuing their long-standing collaboration by expanding their online retail capacities. The go-ahead has been given with the construction and relocation to dedicated areas for e-commerce logistics at the Coesfeld-Lette site.

The textile retailer processes up to 3.3 million orders via the online store, which opened in 2003, while all associated logistics processes will continue to be planned and controlled uniformly via SAP in the future as part of the expansion. The new warehouse extends over five levels and includes a pocket sorter including a dynamic buffer for efficient pre-picking and an outgoing goods sorter for shipping.

Ernsting's Family relies on SAP EWM (Extended Warehouse Management) to expand its logistics capacities in order to implement efficient planning and control of all goods movements via a central system basis. Inconso also supports the development of native Android apps in order to optimize process handling with mobile terminals via intuitive user guidance.

The expansion of e-commerce logistics is part of the development of a holistically synchronized logistics IT system, which will create a uniform SAP system landscape for smooth omnichannel logistics.

While the move into the new logistics building has already been completed, the connection of the sorter in outgoing goods is currently starting, followed by the conversion of the picking strategies, which will adapt the site to the significantly increased requirements of e-commerce logistics.