Stormberg reduces costs with Autostore
Stormberg, Norways leading sports- and outdoorsupplier, has signed an agreement with Element Logic for the implementation of the Automatic Storage and Retrievalsystem AutoStore.

Since its start in 1998, Stormberg has grown to be one of the leading suppliers of sports- and outdoorproduccts in Norwah and in 2009 sold more than 1,4 million items through 400 sportshops and the internet.  

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Stormbergs growth has also increased costs and has seen a steadily growing pressure on storage- and handlingcapacity. The highly competitive market the past year has led to a special focus on reducing costs. ”Increasing prices to the level of our competitors has not been an alternative”, says logistics manager Jens-Christian Iglebæk, and continues: ”Stormbergs customers will also in the future receive a lot of value for money. With AutoStore we can handle our products at a lower cost. Not only because we can store more products on a significantly smaller space but also because we can manage growth and increase of volume in a more efficient way.”

AutoStore, with it’s 14 000 boxes and 1 050m3 of storagespace, will managae a large portion of all the items in the warehouse. ”We’ve estimated to move our entire static storage, approx. 2 000 storage locations, into AutoStore but only use 30% of the previously occupied storagespace”, finishes Iglebæk