Particularly in a warehouse where more than a hundred sheets are often stacked on top of each other, it requires considerable effort on the part of the search or picking teams every day to locate the required materials and deliver them to the production facilities in the correct order.
It is obvious that without a modern warehouse management system, not only is a high level of personnel expenditure required, but also a time-consuming paper trail. A serious problem arises when machine downtimes occur due to delayed material provision, which ultimately results in high costs.

The solution to this lies in automation: it is not absolutely necessary to introduce a fully automated warehouse straight away. It is sufficient to know where the crane operator has placed the panel. Expecting him to always report this correctly to the WMS is not only tedious, but also not very promising, as errors are human.

Warehouse management must be automated and precise to ensure that manual material movements are reliably recorded by the system. For this reason, we at ABF developed an innovative solution over 15 years ago to automatically record all material movements carried out by manual cranes and take warehouse control to a new level.