Rohlik Group invests 400 M Euros in automatic fulfilment centres

Rohlik Group will install an automated storage and retrieval system in fulfillment centres around Europe, increasing picking efficiency and capacity utilization.

Approximately €45 million will be invested in automation in the first phase, with upwards of €400 million to be invested in further FCs in 2022-2025. This is a continuation of Rohlik’s investment trend as a tech company and part of a rolling improvement and innovation process to become Europe’s best and largest online grocery delivery service.

The AutoStore system has storage bins stacked vertically in a grid and stored in a cubic structure, with the bins retrieved by robots that travel atop the structure on rails, complemented by efficient picking workstations.

This core automation system will deliver Knuspr.de a threefold increase in picking productivity and over 30% more storage space in the Munich fulfilment centre.

Rohlik Group dispatches hundreds of thousands of products every single day, which on some days can add up to over a million individual items, Aleš Malucha, Rohlik Group Chief Automation Officer says. It is a mix of ambient and perishable products and, as part of our entire supply chain, they get processed in less than 60 minutes at our fulfilment centres. This automation provides efficiencies that give us an edge on delivering quickly and with the quality expected by our customers. We are now starting to implement the AutoStore system in Munich, and the Shuttle-System will also affect projects in Vienna and Prague for full automation”.

At Knuspr, we are excited to be one of the first online grocers with a highly automated fulfilment system. Streamlining our logistics enables us to act even faster and more flexibly in the future, further accelerating our growth,” says Knuspr’s COO Björn Christian Wolf.