Amazon
Amazon.de is Germany's leading online retailer for books, CDs, DVDs and computer games. The real strength of amazon.de is its wide - and constantly expanding - available range of products. Delivery pledges made online are accurately met.
Project details

- Items: approx. 1,500,000 different lines / currently in stock: approx. 600,000 lines
- Orders/shipments per day: 100,000 to 300,000
- 45 ODS stations / 90 packing stations
- Dispatch units: 150,000/day
- Incoming goods: max. (total) 1,100 containers/hour
- Batch buffer: max. (total) 1,200 containers/hour
- Rebin station: approx. 450 picks/hour
- Packing station: approx. 100 parcels/hour
- Dispatch line (Slam Line): max. 1,250 dispatch units/hour
- Sorting of shipments: controller handles a maximum of 6,500 parcels/hour
- Conveyor technology: 7x Simatic S7 PLC controllers
- Sorting technology: 2x industrial PC controllers
- Connection to material flow computer
- SCADA system



