Kwik Trip taps Cimcorp tech for automated warehouse project

Cimcorp has helped US midwest convenience store chain Kwik Trip automate product handling and order fulfilment in the warehouse of its baking facility in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Within the 87,000 square foot warehouse, Cimcorp designed a space-saving, high-density layout and custom automated solution centred around its MultiPick robotic order picking system.

This is able to 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.

Eric Fonstad, Facility Director, Kwik Trip, says: “The warehouse is one of the most critical points in the La Crosse facility’s end-to-end process, as the bread and buns that come in from production and packaging are held for the minimum time before being sent to our stores.”

“From receiving to storage, through picking and dispatch, these products have to flow seamlessly and quickly to guarantee their maximum freshness for our customers.”

“Cimcorp’s automation is central to enabling this efficient product movement and is therefore pivotal to our bakery business. Cimcorp worked closely with us to develop an ideal solution that would make optimal use of our warehouse space and meet our present and future business needs,” he concludes.