Case Study: Bergfreunde achieves 288% picking efficiency gain with AutoStore

AutoStore Boosts Bergfreunde 2-Year ROI and 288% Efficiency Gain

Bergfreunde, a German online retailer for outdoor sports equipment, faced significant challenges in scaling its warehouse operations to keep pace with rapid annual sales growth of approximately 30%. Their existing manual shelf storage system was inefficient, managing only 45 picks per hour, and could not handle the expanding demand. They turned to vendor AutoStore, partnering with Element Logic, to implement a large-scale automated storage and retrieval system to boost efficiency and improve the employee work environment.

The solution from AutoStore involved installing a high-density grid system with 80 robots to manage 94,000 bins. This automated system dramatically increased Bergfreunde's picking efficiency by 288%, from 45 to 175 picks per hour, and reduced the lead time from order to shipment to under three hours. The return on investment for the AutoStore system was achieved in under two years, and the scalable solution now enables the company to process up to 15,000 orders on peak days while significantly enhancing both employee working conditions and customer satisfaction.

Bergfreunde

Ronny Höhn

Managing Director