Swisslog continues to secure new projects in the Middle East and beyond
Swisslog is making great strides with the SAP EWM warehouse management system alongside its own SynQ software platform. The company recently secured three global projects with a combined value of over Euro 17 million, and a significant element of these involves SAP EWM integration.
These orders were placed by Festo, an automation technology specialist from Germany to build a new, state-of-the-art logistics hub in Shanghai; Aqipa, a consumer electronics distributor from Austria who will use SAP EWM to control its AutoStore facility near Innsbruck; and Bühler, a Swiss technology company for its new Customer Service Hub in Switzerland.
All three cases call for a combination of the AutoStore compact storage system and SAP EWM. This will allow Swisslog to further cement its positions as the world’s number one AutoStore provider.
“We are delighted that our development of the standard AutoStore concept with SAP EWM offers real added value for our customers. The orders we have secured will allow us to demonstrate our SAP expertise in the market even further,” explained Alain Kaddoum, General Manager of Swisslog Middle East.
AutoStore is an automated storage and retrieval system, which uses radio-controlled, battery-powered robots that move along a grid on top of stacks of bins. The robots lift bins from the stacks and deliver them to the operator at the picking station, after which the robot returns the bin to storage.
SAP EWM is a highly standardized and efficient warehouse management system for manual and automated warehouse solutions with material flow functionality that allows the direct connection of PLC-level controls.
In the Middle East, Swisslog has deployed its automated logistics solutions across multiple sectors including e-commerce, retail, food & beverage. To date, the company has signed a total of seven large-scale projects in the UAE, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), and Kuwait with a value of over US$ 100 million.
