New logistics centre in Hungary

MK Illumination on the pulse of time

MK Illumination is an innovative company with Tyrolean origins. MK Illumination has been enjoying world wide success with the designing and producing of festive illumination concepts for over 10 years. This success will be further enhanced by the new logistics centre in Hungary. Much was invested in the new location in Agfalva and METALAG will take on the warehouse management.

Founded in 1996 in a garage, MK Illumination quickly grew to become an internationally active and successful company. With its head office in Innsbruck, production in the Far East and Slovakia, office for quality and procurement management in Hong Kong, the new logistics centre in Hungary and the many subsidiaries in Europe as well as South Africa, MK Illumination is the global market leader in many countries when it comes to festive illumination concepts. Its costumers mainly come from the hotel & tourist industries, communes and shopping centres.

The new logistics centre in Agfalva, Hungary, was opened with a ceremony on 10 September. Apart from the project and finance partners, the Mayor of Agfalva was also delighted about the opening of the new central warehouse. Over 700 different products find a temporary home on the 3.015 pallet units, before their Europe-wide delivery, sometimes within 24 hours.

Klaus MARK, general manager: “We can accommodate 120 containered freights in this warehouse.”

Such a big warehouse has to be managed accordingly. METALAG LVS by Metasyst takes over this job for MK Illumination. Via an interface, the warehouse management with scanners and mobile data radio terminals enables direct access to the ERP-system and imports master data, orders and contracts.

The fork lifts have been fitted with terminals to perfectly control incoming goods and re-ordering. Furthermore, the scales for weight control of packages and pallets has been integrated into the system.

METALAG covers the following processes:

• Receiving goods, acceptance
• Labelling and storage (control via control station and fork lift terminal)
• Managing and controlling of batches
• Replenishment control (supplies into picking area)
• Control station management of order picking processes
• Evaluation of volume and weight
• Labelling, automatic choice of package type
• Pick & Pack
• parallel paperless order picking (several orders are picked in the course of one picking trip)
• Automatic merging of orders, compression
• Weight control (reconciliation of target weight / actual weight)
• Packaging support, labelling
• Delivery note and loading papers
• Loading control
• EDI of dispatch and package data to transport service provider