Cortilia: Automated warehouse for e-commerce

Cortilia

Technological innovation in the Automated Warehouse for E-commerce in Milan

Thanks to this automation project, operational since 2021, Cortilia can serve its customers even more efficiently by offering a cutting-edge e-commerce service.

Cortilia

Cortilia is a food-tech company founded in 2011, certified B Corp, reference point in the market of quality online shopping, with a turnover of about . The rapid growth of the business in recent years, combined with the need to optimize all business processes, has led the company to invest in the creation of a new headquarters in 2021, with the aim of providing an excellent service to the end consumer.

The new 50,000sqm site, where the automatic warehouse is located, is powered by energy from renewable sources. The automation project represented a further commitment by Cortilia to optimize energy consumption and streamline logistics processes, revolutionizing the way online orders are handled, prepared and delivered.

Picking stations

Km Conveyors system

Temperature controlled zones

mq Warehouse Area

Logistics automation to serve economic and social responsibility objectives.

The automated warehouse, designed by Errevi Automation and tailored for Cortilia, integrates the latest automation and digitization technologies to optimize e-commerce service.

This advanced system was created with the aim of making order preparation more efficient and faster: the automation plant consists of 2 km of conveyors and covers an area of 15,000 square meters, able to handle a volume more than twice as much as the previous process with manual picking.

The warehouse is composed of three different storage areas at ambient temperature and controlled, for the optimal maintenance of the different categories of e-commerce products:

a room temperature area for dry
a 6°-10° temperature zone for fruit and vegetables
a temperature zone of 0°-2° for fresh products

The warehouse layout consists of 52 picking bays supplied manually by operators during the operations of receiving and refilling of rentals from stock. During the outbound phase, however, the picking bays allow the operator to manually pick products from the shelves in order to compose customer orders. The automation system in this sense allows the Cortilia boxes, each of which corresponds to a customer order, to visit the picking bays and the three zones at controlled temperature in an efficient and optimized way. At the end of picking, the automation system transports all boxes to the labelling, taping and sequencing area. This allows the boxes to be reordered on pallets according to the type of carrier and the priority level of the shipment, thus ensuring an optimization also in the phase of delivery to the customer by the driver.

A warehouse responsible for the environment and people

A warehouse therefore technologically advanced and responsible not only towards the environment, but also towards people, as operators remain a fundamental part of the picking and packing process and the ergonomics of their work have been improved

The automated warehouse is designed to support a continuously increasing volume of orders, minimizing human errors and significantly improving space management.

"The design of a semi-automated outbound system has overcome many of the constraints in the old, fully manual expense preparation system. In particular, it has allowed us to support the dynamism and strong growth of our business by ensuring flexibility and precision."

- Gianluca Romano, Operations Manager Cortilia -

"The collaboration between Errevi Automation and Cortilia demonstrates how the adoption of advanced technologies can exponentially optimize processes, while keeping people at the center of logistics operations. “

- Rossano Romoli, Business Development Director & Co-founder Errevi Automation -

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