Hudson's Bay Case Study

The Bay takes on E-Commerce Giants with State-of-the-Art Order Picking Fulfillment Center

North America's oldest retailer partnered with Bastian Solutions to develop an order fulfillment center capable of competing with Internet retail giants such as Amazon. The 750,000-square-foot facility holds the most advanced order fulfillment technology in Canada and has improved operations to give the retail giant a competitive advantage with online shopping.

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Key Technologies

Largest Perfect Pick goods-to-person order picking system in the world at time of completion (16 Aisles)
- 16 200'x40' (longest ever aisles of Perfect Pick)
- 19 iBOTs/aisle
- 69,000 totes + 250,000 cells = approx. 1.5M units of storage
32 custom fabricated Perfect Pick Workstations designed by Bastian Solutions
50+ workstations with touch screen monitors
Exacta warehouse control system
Pick and Put to Light
RF guns for inbound inventory.
Automatic labeling machines for empty shipping carton license plate labels
2 Robotic Document Inserters from Bastian Robotics

Dunnage dispensers and automatic tapers
In-line weigh check scale
8 ID Tech High Speed Side Print-and-Apply labeler units (30-40 cpm)
2 B+H Raptor top apply Print-and-Apply units (~75 cpm)
18,000 ft. of Bastian Solutions' conveyor
Sortation conveyor
Hytrol ProSort Shoe sorters (4)
Racking
35,000 sq. ft. of mezzanines/crossovers
Carton erectors

Results

High system throughput: 16 aisles of Perfect Pick order picking allows orders to be processed in as little as 15 minutes
High system accuracy: picking allows for scanning of each item
Security: high-end items safely stored in OPEX Perfect Pick
Scalability: Perfect Pick aisles easily expand to accommodate growth