The food industry turns to Cimcorp for very good reasons. Increased number of variants, growing demand for fresh foods and strict adherence to sell-by dates all put pressure on the food supply chain.

Picking fresh foods in distributions centers has traditionally been very labor intensive. It is physically demanding and often takes place in unsociable hours. It is not surprising that in many parts of the world it is becoming difficult to recruit staff for these functions. Running costs – mainly labor costs – are high, and the manual process often leads to unacceptably high pick errors with resulting shortages on the supermarket shelves and penalties levied against the distributor/supplier.

Fresh meat, ready meals, bakery products, produce, dairy products, etc – anything where substantial volumes are handled in crates, bins or cartons may benefit from Cimcorp picking solutions. Typical applications are found at the distribution end of factories (dairies, meat processing plants, bakeries etc), at distribution centers and cross-docking facilities. Standard MultiPick installations receive product in stacks of one article (SKU) each; they buffer store these on the floor and then pick, and sometimes assemble, mixed customer orders. Installations can go from quite simple solutions to very complex.