Digital connection of your automated warehouse for future-oriented logistics
By integrating your automated warehouse into our warehouse management software, we transform your wood and building materials logistics: faster processes, fewer errors, and more efficient use of resources.
Automation is shaping the future of warehouse logistics. With our expertise, you're ideally equipped to shape it.
Tourbo.store supports different warehouse types
Automated panel storage
Fully automated storage and retrieval of panel materials
Automated log storage
Fully automated storage and retrieval of logs such as KVH and BSH
Automatic door storage system
Vollautomatische Ein- und Auslagerung von Türen
(Partially) autonomous industrial trucks
Control of industrial trucks that automatically drive to their destination
Mit unserer Lagerverwaltungs- und -steuerungssoftware Tourbo.store bieten wir maßgeschneiderte Lösungen für die Anbindung unterschiedlichster Automatiklagertypen. Egal, ob Plattenlager, Langholzlager, Türenlager oder die Anbindung an (teil-) autonome Flurförderzeuge – wir integrieren Ihre Lagertechnik effizient in Ihre digitalen Lagerabläufe und sorgen für einen nahtlosen, reibungslosen Prozess. Vertrauen Sie auf unsere langjährige Erfahrung, um Ihre Lagerprozesse zukunftssicher und hochperformant zu gestalten.
Automatiklager automatisieren den gesamten Lagerungsprozess – von der Einlagerung bis zur Auslagerung von Produkten – durch den Einsatz von automatischen Regalbediengeräten und Fördertechnik, die auf die spezifischen Anforderungen Ihres Lagers zugeschnitten sind. Der Übergang von der automatischen Bereitstellung zur Bestandsverwaltung erfolgt häufig noch über manuelle Schritte und führt so zu einem ineffizienten „gebrochenen Prozess“.
Durch die Anbindung eines Automatiklagers an Tourbo.store wird dieser Prozess zu einem geschlossenen, vollautomatisierten System: Die Warenbestände werden automatisch erfasst und gebucht, ohne dass manuelle Eingriffe erforderlich sind. Am Ende des Prozesses ist lediglich das Scannen der Ware mit einem mobilen Datenerfassungsgerät (MDE) notwendig. So schaffen wir einen durchgängigen, effizienten und fehlerfreien Lagerprozess.
Bildquellen: Automatiklager Langholz: barbaric.at; Flurförderzeug: grenzebach.com
You can only achieve a consistent process with software to control your automated warehouse
Without a connection: Cumbersome and time-consuming
The image on the left shows a broken process, which is often encountered without an automated warehouse connection. Orders from the ERP system must first be printed on paper and then processed manually. A person sorts the picking slips, enters the data manually, and creates batches – a time-consuming, error-prone process.
The result: inefficient processes, lost time, and a burden for employees.
With our software: Efficient, digital, automated
Tourbosoft optimizes your entire process through a direct connection to the automated warehouse. This means that orders are processed entirely digitally and automatically forwarded to the warehouse. Humans merely perform a monitoring function – the rest runs seamlessly, faster, and without manual intervention.
The result: Maximum efficiency, time savings, and reduced workload for employees.
We'd be happy to advise you on digitalizing and optimizing your warehouse. Schedule a free expert consultation with us now!
OUR CUSTOMERS
For many retail companies, the automated warehouse connection with Tourbo.store is the first choice
Many automated warehouses are connected to Tourbosoft's warehouse management and control software. Benefit from our many years of experience in logistics processes and structures across many industries and don't miss out on digitalizing your warehouse!
„Since we started managing our automated warehouse with Tourbo.store, it has seamlessly integrated into our overall process. Previously, we had to request retrievals manually and separately, assemble the stacks ourselves, and there was no integration into our processes. Now, everything runs automatically. It's impressive how precisely everything integrates and how much time we save with the software.“
David Hoff, Head of Warehouse & Automated Warehouse at Leyendecker HolzLand in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate
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Automated Warehouse with Tourbo.store at JAF
J. u. A. Frischeis Gesellschaft in Stockerau, Austria, efficiently manages its fully automated warehouse with our Tourbo.store software. As Europe's largest distributor of wood and wood-based materials, JAF relies on the powerful combination of Tourbo.store for warehouse management and control, as well as the connection to its automated warehouse, to optimize storage and logistics processes.
Our software efficiently and digitally controls the inbound and outbound storage of panel products, guaranteeing consistent automation and maximum process reliability.
Everything's automated at A+J Holzzentrum
At Andresen & Jochimsen in Hamburg, maximum efficiency is achieved with a fully automated warehouse for 22,000 panels and laminates – controlled by our Tourbo.store software. As a long-standing partner of Tourbosoft, A+J not only uses our warehouse management software but also the integration with their warehouse.
By using the warehouse, storage space is optimally utilized, and state-of-the-art technology effectively prevents damage to goods. At the same time, the ergonomic design of the workflows reduces the workload of warehouse staff and increases efficiency.
Intelligent solutions for practical use to optimize your warehouse processes
An automated warehouse offers numerous advantages for logistics: It optimizes internal processes, reduces space requirements, and lowers the error and damage rate. There are also many individual advantages.
However, there is a risk of isolated optimization, meaning only part of the process is optimized, while upstream and downstream processes remain unaffected. In the worst case, this can lead to an overall worse process than before the automated warehouse was implemented.
To avoid this risk, it is crucial to fully integrate the automated warehouse into the logistics processes. This is the only way to utilize the full potential offered by the interfaces offered by automated warehouse manufacturers. By connecting to a warehouse management and control system, such as Tourbo.store, the warehouse processes can be digitally controlled and optimally linked.
Tourbo.store ensures seamless integration of stacking, strapping, and labeling by intelligently automating these processes and adapting them to the company's individual requirements. This maximizes efficiency and precision in warehouse logistics.
Stacking
Intelligent stacking for optimized picking processes tailored to your requirements
Tourbo.store relies on an intelligent algorithm that ensures optimal stacking during the picking process. Thanks to flexible parameter settings, the stacks or packages created by the automated warehouse can be precisely adapted to your requirements.
You can store both item-specific parameters such as dimensions or surfaces as well as customer-specific specifications. Customer-specific settings allow you to define individual requirements such as maximum stack heights, quantities, or weights per package for specific customer numbers.
The system also takes customer requests into account, such as specific sequences, customized layouts, or the use of special protective plates. Tourbo.store thus ensures efficiency and precision in your warehouse logistics – tailored to your customers' needs.
The stacks to be created in the automated warehouse can be viewed and adjusted before picking using the 3D stack visualization Tourbo.load. With just a click of the mouse, you can flexibly edit the automatically generated stack and optimally adapt it to the requirements of your customers and warehouse processes.
In addition, Tourbo.load, as a 3D loading visualization, shows how the stacks can be arranged in the vehicle even before loading. Intelligent algorithms automatically create an optimal loading pattern, which you can easily adapt and submit to the loading department as a default – for maximum transparency and optimal use of the loading space on your delivery routes.
Strapping
Intelligent strapping control analyzes optimal positions
If an automatic strapping system (also known as a bundling or binding system) is installed at the output line of the automated warehouse, Tourbo.store can specify the bundling positions. After stacking is complete, the system analyzes the goods and determines the optimal strapping positions to avoid damage.
Tourbo.store allows you to flexibly determine whether certain configurations should be bundled multiple times or not at all. In addition, depending on the package or stack being formed, different shims or pads can be assigned, provided the system supports this function.
With Tourbo.store, strapping is controlled precisely and efficiently, tailored to your requirements.
Label printing
Automatic label creation for your picked goods creates transparency
Tourbo.store enables the automatic creation of labels for fully picked goods from the automated warehouse. The label content can be individually adapted to your requirements. After the digital confirmation of a stack or parcel from the automated warehouse, Tourbo.store generates the label and transmits the print job - for manual or automatic application with labeling machines.
In addition to unique recipient data, stack contents can also be printed. These can also be specified in the order of the items within the stack. This makes further processing easier for the recipient, reduces errors and enables clear identification – even without an MDE device.
Customer details from the order placement can also be printed in order to optimally prepare the goods for the end customer.
Automatic order picking
Picking by simple scan accelerates warehouse processes
In combination with the creation of labels for stacks and parcels from the automated warehouse, the Tourbo.store automated warehouse connection offers another powerful function with automatic picking. After digital confirmation of the stack or parcel from the automated warehouse, the label is created and the goods are picked by the system. This eliminates the need to manually confirm the items in a stack or parcel on the MDE and enter the individual quantities.
The TE (transport unit whose barcode is later used to identify the stack) is automatically generated by Tourbo.store and assigned to the items in the stack. The user, who previously confirmed the individual items per stack and assigned them to the TE, now only has to scan the TE on the automatically generated label of the removed parcel and then scan the compartment in which the parcel is to be placed for later loading.
This automation not only saves valuable time, but also reduces the need for specialist staff with knowledge of the goods. As only the label and the compartment need to be scanned when the stack is moved, these tasks can also be carried out by less specialized employees – a decisive advantage in times of a shortage of skilled workers.
We connect numerous manufacturers for fully automated storage
Weitere Schnittstellen entwickeln wir gerne für Sie.
We have already successfully connected numerous automatic bearing models from various manufacturers: Barbaric, Grundner, HOMAG, IMA Schelling and MINDA. Thanks to our many years of experience, we have developed a standard that makes the connection of other manufacturers a calculable and secure extension. This expertise sets us apart from other providers.
We are open to new challenges and do not shy away from systems that have not yet been connected. Our software supports a wide range of interfaces and technologies from automated warehouse manufacturers – although we have preferences based on our experience. We would be happy to discuss details with you and your automation technology partner.
The trend towards automation is becoming increasingly strong and will soon be unavoidable in many logistics areas. We are well prepared for this and look forward to working with you to master new challenges together.
Are you planning an automated warehouse or would you like to digitally connect an existing one?
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