W&H Systems

Southern Wine & Spirits’ Northern California DC was designed to maximize throughput and accommodate growth for years to come.

Though subject to unique constraints, advances in the distribution of wine and spirits holds lessons for the wider industry.

Replacing manual processes, automation moves as many as 380,000 units in a week.

Warehouse execution software and warehouse control systems enable new methods of wave releasing to increase throughput and keep workloads balanced.

The first generation of light systems sought to improve accuracy; the second generation enhanced speed; and we’re now entering the third, which is all about efficiency.

W&H Systems (Booth 4726) announced that their next generation Warehouse Control System (WCS), Shiraz, now works on a Smartwatch.

Program to include online and hard copy catalogs for maintenance, packaging, safety and storage needs.

Built on a software foundation, the targeted use of automation is helping warehouses improve themselves, their supply chains and the customer experience.

With AS/RS, voice-directed picking and high-speed sortation, Wirtz Beverage Illinois takes the lead in wine and spirits distribution.

Wirtz Beverage uses both cutting edge automation and conventional processes to move product through its new facility.

Retail distributors are looking to the storage, fulfillment and delivery strategies of beverage distributors to learn how to more closely connect the DC with the storefront.

Modern spends 60 seconds talking to Paul Laman about the future of food and beverage distribution.

Rooted in increasingly complex software, the concept of pick-to-light has moved well beyond the pick and is now capable of relaying an array of information to workers throughout the fulfillment process.

Distributor replaces paper system for improved accuracy and productivity.

Beverage distributor implements a conveyor and sortation system to process 200,000 bottles a day out of two Michigan warehouses.