High-bay warehouse

Visualisation software that brings SAP data onto screens in the warehouse. At PistenBully, two Peakboard andon boards show the material flows for the high-bay and small-parts warehouses: current picking and shipping orders, priorities and processing status with open, completed and running waves. Staff can see at a glance which orders are due next, and both warehouses reliably serve the assembly line's three-hour cycle.

Through the warehouse management and material flow system, whose data appears on dashboards in the hall and control room. At binder, an automated high-bay warehouse acts as the vertical backbone supplying assembly in Neckarsulm, mapped in SAP EWM and SAP EWM/MFS. Peakboard connects these systems, Excel, Outlook and the Siemens S7 controller without additional middleware. Around 40 employees see open deliveries by load carrier type, work queues and outgoing goods in real time.

Storage locations and pallets are identified automatically, and every put-away is booked without a scanner. At TB International, the locations in the high-bay warehouse carry RFID labels. A forklift equipped with RFID and UWB technology recognises which pallet it is picking up and where it should be stored; a tablet shows the driver the nearest free location on an optimised route. The completed put-away is booked automatically in the SAP Business One ERP system.

Real-time data shows which orders are due and where support is needed right now. At binder, staff can see on the dashboard when outgoing goods are busier than incoming goods and switch workstations on their own initiative. Peakboard also converts quantities into load units, for example 45 KLT3 and 60 KLT4 boxes still to be stored. At TB International, an RFID gate automatically checks retrieved goods for completeness.