Clarks Companies, North America, a division of Somerset, UK-based
shoe retailer Clarks, is opening a new state-of-the-art
distribution centre in North America. The new premises will be
located directly opposite the company’s current facility in
Hanover, Pennsylvania and will use technology capable of handling
volumes of up to 50 million pairs of shoes annually to support
growing demand from customers and retailers in the US. The new
building, which will be 451,000 square feet and approaching 25
metres in height, is expected to be occupied by the end of
2012.
Clarks selected a system from Knapp to manage material handling
from unloading through to shipping. At the core of the new
handling system will be Knapp’s OSR Shuttle system, used for
goods-to-person picking, buffering, storage and sequencing.
Maximum use of building height, flexibility in balancing
workloads between functional operations and low energy
consumption through the technology will also support Clarks’
requirements for LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design), the US scheme for the design, construction and operation
of high-performance green buildings.
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