Sharp Electronics (Europe) GmbH in Hamburg:

Fully automatic delivery process

Using a fully automatic Bizerba delivery system the firm Sharp in Hamburg rationalises the dispatch in the storage of spare parts for Europe: 400 parcels per hour are made ready for dispatch.

Due to focussing on the location of Hamburg the shipping volume of the spare parts exceeded all usual dimensions at Sharp Electronics (Europe) GmbH. That is why the Japanese electronics specialist decided in favour of the computer controlled shipping system CVS [1] of Bizerba that is admitted at all transport operators. Thus, the company was able to optimise the shipping logistics and to achieve immense cost cuttings for the transport operators.

Picking, packing, conveying, weighing, scanning, shipping. These procedures are the daily work in the shipping department of spare parts at Sharp in Hamburg. Hereby, the formerly 200 parcels have nowadays increased to almost 900 per day, which shall be processed to be ready for shipping till early afternoon.

At present, nine branches are connected, for which Sharp Hamburg processes all deliveries of spare parts with CVS by Bizerba. The parcels are sent to the respective customer, the collective invoice to the branch. There are exceptions for the delivery into third countries.

Fully automatic and customer-specific

Thanks to the computer control, the CVS shipping system offers a high level of automation, at the same time it makes customer-specific logistic solutions possible. 

Identification of the delivery by means of a scanner, recall of the receiver's data including the instructions for shipping by the Sharp host system, weighing the parcels, printing the parcel bills and labels - this is the logistic procedure in the Sharp shipping department.

The Bizerba shipping system masters the immense amount of parcels in a fully automatic and customer-specific way, always according to the special requirements.

Fig.1: Bizerba labeler at Sharp Europe

The stationary scanner installed in the CVS plant creates a connection by means of the bar code to the customer host, thus starting the individual processing of the parcels of each shipment. In the filet transfer there is the data communication with the CVS computer, which generates the data of the parcel bill in connection with the weight measured. The data are individually processed according to the regulations and instructions of the various transport operators.

The CVS configuration applied in the firm Sharp consists of the main workplace with automatic labeling and a second supplementary system for manual shipping processing.
 

Fig. 2: Parcels ready to be dispatched

Flexible stamp labeler

After passing the Bizerba load receptor that is integrated in the conveying technology the parcels are transported to the automatic stamp labeler GS EO 7150 [2] of the Bizerba shipping plant. It gets automatically adapted to the various heights of the parcels and secures a safe and fast labeling directly from above even for large dispatch labels.

The exchange of signals between the Bizerba CVS and the SPS, which controls the company conveying systems, makes it possible to sort out parcels which do not meet the logistic standard and to direct them to the manual CVS workplace.

 
Complete organisation using CVS

At Sharp, all data are running via the Bizerba shipping system. The settlement of accounts with the present transport operators of Sharp, Mail or DHL, is daily done at the end of dispatch. By pushing a button the complete shipping documentation for handing over the goods is prepared and can be transmitted to the respective service company via remote data transmission.

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