Buttinette (D)

Over 22,000 items in stock and an average of 7,000 shipments daily. During the carnival season, as many as 25,000 parcels of any size are processed every day. The mail order company Buttinette is adopting the Wanzl EasyStore concept for its new warehouse.

The storage area of the new order picking and shipment building, which opened in October 2011, measures over 10,000 square metres in total and uses 3,220 of Wanzl's stacking baskets. A total of five metre-long baskets can be stacked together. Some of them accommodate balls of wool, sorted by type, for example cotton, pure new wool, acrylic wool, tape yarn or felt yarn with a Bouclé effect. Other stacking baskets are filled with costumes and accessories, such as wigs or hats for carnival or any other type of themed party during the course of the year. Exclusive Buttinette creations, such as the Crazy Bears are particularly popular. 
"Wanzl stacking baskets are ideally suited to the dimensions of our shipped items. The baskets enable us to alter the warehouse easily, should this become necessary," explains Günter Schäfer, Logistics Manager at Buttinette. The modular design principle with pallet sizing offers plenty of leeway for constantly changing requirements. This makes extensions and conversions very easy, without the need for tools. This flexibility is what made the difference: Buttinette opted for the Wanzl EasyStore concept 
and is also using Wanzl KT3 order picking trolleys. "The model has the right dimensions for our range, it is easily manoeuvrable and very light. "Important features for fast order picking, done predominantly by female employees. 
In one single-stage order picking process, up to 16 orders from the wool area and up to 10 shipments from our carnival range fit into one of the four levels of the KT3 trolley. The stacking baskets with the available items are at an ideal height for order picking: 
even the uppermost stacking level can be comfortably reached without the need for auxiliary materials. From here, the orders then go to the dispatch unit to be delivered to customers within 48 hours.

Buttinette customers that prefer wearing their own creations for carnival celebrations and hence tailor their own costumes can choose from the wide range of fabrics sold by length. 
It's all about material here.

Buttinette provides the materials, cut to individual, exact customer specifications, in mobile Wanzl order picking trolleys. "This is our rolling warehouse," says Günter Schäfer. 
Once empty, the trolleys are returned to the fabrics department ready for their next shipment. 
Wanzl's new warehousing and order picking concept keeps the internal logistics at Buttinette moving, whether it's arts and crafts, sewing or manual work. Of course, this also applies to the carnival season, the busiest time of the year at Buttinette.


Wanzl deliveries to Butinette:

• 3,220 STX 210 stacking baskets
• 270 KT3 order picking trolleys
• 60 order picking containers
• 17 DR 75 and EL 240 shopping trolleys for ex-works sales

Wanzl Logistics + Industry