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trailer world issue one 2015 - Expertise

20      Issue One 2015 Expertise Be quick, be reliable, and be transparent – these are the key requirements for drinks logistics. They are especially important if business has been as successful as for Winkels Getränke Logistik GmbH in Sachsenheim near Stuttgart. pple juice, mineral wa- ter, or beer: Winkels from Baden-Wurttemberg sup- plies large trading companies, drinks retailers and whole- salers, petrol stations and restaurants with over 3,000 products from breweries, the juice industry and its own production. The company's core business could be best ex- plained by following the route of a bottle: It all starts with the bottle being filled at the producer. Winkels places an order and may pick up the goods to store them temporar- ily at one of its four delivery locations for a short time, until customer orders are com- ing in by phone, fax or email. An employee of the respective warehouse will make cer- tain that the products are ready for delivery at the requested date. Item picking is done without paper – a pick-by-voice system tells pickers from which bin they need to take which quantity. Winkels uses its own vehi- cle fleet to deliver the goods to the locations at which end consumers can buy them. There are two systems for deposit on bot- tles and crates in the drinks industry: Sin- gle-use and multi-use. They differ in which type of bottles can be returned where and es- pecially, how they will be recycled. Multi-use bottlesaremadeofglassorpolyethylenetere- phthalate (PET) and are mainly transported in plastic crates. A multi-use bottle goes sev- eraltimesthroughthesamecyclefromfilling to end consumer, whereas single-use bottles – made of PET and mostly sold in a pack of six wrapped in foil – do not. After being returned to the store, sin- gle-use bottles are either compressed to re- duce transportation costs and to cancel the deposit on them, or they are shipped by Winkels to a so-called counting station to cancel the deposit. The machines at the sta- tion will read the bar codes and determine at which location the deposit was originally paid. Afterwards, the material will be re- Photos:Winkels,ThomasWöhrle Drinks logistics as the customer would want it A

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