Airport Baggage Handling Systems and Sorting

Key Facts:

• LS-4000 sorter has enabled growth to be accommodated within the existing order delivery timelines
• Auto sort directly into dispatch roll cages
• Sorter ships to over 200 destinations worldwide
• Combines high throughput with flexibility, accuracy and control

BEUMER Group – a leading global supplier of automated material handling systems – has installed a dispatch sorter for the global online retailer, ASOS, in their UK-based global distribution hub. The ASOS hub distributes nearly 50 million garments every year to customers throughout the UK, USA, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Australia and over 200 other countries.

“This initial investment in automation ensures that ASOS can improve the accuracy of the dispatch process and provide significant gains in operational efficiency.  It also allows for future capacity expansion in line with our growth expectations,“ explains David Swinbank, Senior Development Manager for ASOS. “The BEUMER Group sorter has enabled us to streamline the sorting process compared to the old operation. The ability to offer a high level of delivery service to our customers is a significant differentiator in the highly competitive online fashion market.”

The LS-4000 sorter was designed, manufactured and installed by BEUMER Group company, Crisplant, and put into operation in October 2013.

BEUMER Group’s Brian Jones, UK Sales Director, explains, “The decision to award this contract to the BEUMER Group and Crisplant was based on the sorter’s ability to offer high levels of flexibility, accuracy and control combined with a high throughput. Crisplant’s decades of experience in engineering state-of-the-art sorting solutions for warehouses in the international fashion industry was also an important factor.”

As a pioneer in online retailing, ASOS offers over 200,000 branded and own-label lines of womenswear, menswear, footwear, accessories, jewellery and beauty products, and adds around 1500 new product lines each week.