DB Schenker is leveraging technology to enhance the delivery experience for customer adidas as it opened a 50,000-sqm state-of-the-art warehouse in Guadalajara, one of the largest automated e-commerce facilities servicing Spain, Portugal and France.

The site is equipped with a Goods-to-Person picking system that features pick-and-pack solutions for online-order fulfillment and efficiently dealing with returns. It can handle around 55,000 units per day using autonomous mobile robots (AMR) provided by Geek+.

A hundred fifty new employees have been hired for the warehouse, which will operate with 200 robots and an optimized packaging system.

Alfredo Alcalá, DB Schenker’s contract logistics product manager in Iberia, said the automated solutions were installed in a record time of only four months and already proved their stability and flexibility around Black Friday and the Christmas season.

“To optimize the volume of parcels and utilization of transport vehicles, packaging is adjusted to the exact size of the product that is shipped through an automated solution. This results in reduced CO2 emissions throughout distribution,” the company noted.

The state-of-the-art warehouse is situated in the Henares industrial park, located 50 kilometres from Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport and 60 kilometres from the center of Madrid with a connection to the main A2 and R2 highways. The warehouse combines skylights with high-tech LED systems and natural ventilation, as environment friendly features.