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Stadium, Sweden: Stadium cuts handling costs to 25 percent
Sports retailer Stadium has approximately 160 stores in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Germany. It turned to Swisslog for a highly automated cross-docking. The business is more agile and responsive to variable customer demand and handling costs are greatly reduced.
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Agile and flexible operation
Sorting machinery receives, sorts and cross-docks a large flow of articles for immediate delivery to stores.
Swisslog designed, engineered and integrated all the material handling equipment and control software for the complex cross-dock facility at Stadium’s distribution center.
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Responsive to customer demand
By improving the agility of its supply chain Stadium has:
- Increased sales volume and margin through better product availability
- Reduced need for in-store logistics work
- Established daily deliveries to all stores
- Reduced product returns
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The solution is tailor-made for our processes and developed by Stadium and Swisslog in close cooperation. Swisslog has a good understanding about retail logistics and our needs.