With the trademark carhartt the textile company Work in Progress GmbH is one of the favourites in the skateboard and BMX scene regarding sportswear.

To get the trendy branded articles into the trade and to the end customers very fast, WIP has built a new logistic center in Weil am Rhein, has concentrated and restructered the storage, order-picking and dispatches processes there.

The general contractor SSI Schäfer implemented an approximately 18,000 square meters large logistic complex with nearly 60,000 locations and an eight aisles automatic small parts storage system (AKL) for cardboard boxes and bins in the existing building. Among other things, two storage and retrieval machines (SRM) with efficient Twister V load-carrying device provide the nearly doubled thoughput of up to 1,000 units per hour compared to the previous solution. They enable, amongst others, the storage and assignment of pre-picks.