Hudson's Bay Case Study

Hudson’s Bay Achieves Ecommerce Success with State-of-the-Art Automated Warehouse

North America's oldest retailer partnered with Bastian Solutions to develop an order fulfillment center capable of competing with Internet retail giants such as Amazon. The 750,000-square-foot facility holds the most advanced order fulfillment technology in Canada and has improved operations to give the retail giant a competitive advantage with online shopping.

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Key Technologies

Largest Perfect Pick goods-to-person order picking system in the world at time of completion (16 Aisles)
- 16 200'x40' (longest ever aisles of Perfect Pick)
- 19 iBOTs/aisle
- 69,000 totes + 250,000 cells = approx. 1.5M units of storage
AutoStore goods to person system
32 custom fabricated Perfect Pick Workstations designed by Bastian Solutions
50+ workstations with touch screen monitors
Exacta warehouse control system
Pick and Put to Light
RF guns for inbound inventory.
Automatic labeling machines for empty shipping carton license plate labels
2 Robotic Document Inserters from Bastian Robotics

Dunnage dispensers and automatic tapers
In-line weigh check scale
8 ID Tech High Speed Side Print-and-Apply labeler units (30-40 cpm)
2 B+H Raptor top apply Print-and-Apply units (~75 cpm)
18,000 ft. of Bastian Solutions' conveyor
Sortation conveyor
Hytrol ProSort Shoe sorters (4)
Racking
35,000 sq. ft. of mezzanines/crossovers
Carton erectors

Results

High system throughput: 16 aisles of Perfect Pick order picking allows orders to be processed in as little as 15 minutes
High system accuracy: picking allows for scanning of each item
Security: high-end items safely stored in OPEX Perfect Pick
Scalability: Perfect Pick aisles easily expand to accommodate growth