Cimcorp automates bakery product handling and order fulfillment in Kwik Trip's La Crosse, WI baking facility
High-density storage and Cimcorp's MultiPick system enable the Midwest convenience store chain to optimally manage 80,000 trays of products and fulfill orders for 53,000 trays to 700+ locations daily
Cimcorp, a manufacturer and integrator of turnkey robotic order fulfillment and tire-handling solutions, announced that it has helped Midwest convenience store chain Kwik Trip automate product handling and order fulfillment in its La Crosse, Wisconsin baking facility’s warehouse. Within the 87,000-square-foot warehouse, Cimcorp designed a space-saving, high-density layout and custom automated solution centered around its MultiPick robotic order picking system. The solution is able to rapidly manage 80,000 trays of fast-moving bakery products and process orders for 53,000 outbound trays to over 700 Kwik Trip stores each day.
The warehouse is part of a 200,000-square-foot baking facility opened by Kwik Trip in the fall of 2018 in response to growing demand for its self-produced baked goods—namely bread and buns. With the goal of producing and distributing four times the volume of output of its previous baking facility, Kwik Trip wanted to automate as much of its operations as possible. Today, the state-of-the art facility features various automated systems that handle the majority of production, packaging, warehousing and outbound distribution in a well-orchestrated, fully integrated fashion.