As a specialist for standard elements, the company, Ganter, from the Black Forest supplies an impressive diversity of components for nearly any industry. With the slogan "everything in stock", the company advertises its particularly short delivery periods and relies on its highly efficient small-parts storage. Together with REINER, the partner for marking technology, the standard parts manufacturer is now able to complete an important step towards improving its warehouse logistics. Recording of the delivered pallets that leave the warehouse again without further processing has been shortened – while increasing the assignment rate.

The just as logical as smart solution intends, with 30 pallets delivered every week and no longer having to be placed in storage and picked. Ganter set up a special handling area for these instead: It is reserved specifically for goods with short storage times, clearly defined for further shipping without any interim work steps.

This has been made possible by a change to the goods marking with the mobile REINER jetStamp 970 graphic. In application, the lightweight device turned out to be highly flexible and programmable precisely according to the customer‘s needs. Now the chosen imprint of the REINER jetStamp 970 graphic stands out by an extra-large, clear and consecutive number in plain text – to the right of the barcode.

Since then, marking has taken place using two quick steps. First, the pallet is given its barcode, then all boxes are printed directly with a consecutive barcode, which makes them clearly assignable. Because printing takes place directly onto the cardboard, the error sources that occur in adhesive labels are excluded. Ganter picks without swapping with its solution – newly marked with an individual consecutive imprint.

The result of this application in the shipping department at Ganter is quite impressive: The parallel storage of the throughput item increases speed as well as availability. Picking at Ganter became faster and less error-prone at optimised utilisation.

"Swapping boxes is always annoying and costs time," Ralf Beitlich, head of logistics at Otto Ganter GmbH & Co. KG, summarises. "This is a thing of the past with our solution."

•  Significant time savings by removal of a work step
• Simple and safe identification
• Safe consecutive recording of pallets and storage bins
• High process safety at a very low error rate