Kroger and WITRON, the general contractor based in Germany, have a long-standing partnership of more than 15 years, with nine successfully implemented automation projects to date.
WITRON recently completed a large-scale modernisation project at Kroger. WITRON's refurbishment experts revamped and modernised the outdated replenishment warehouse located in Layton -- a system with 12,800 pallet locations that was originally designed and implemented by a competitor 24 years ago.
Kroger was WITRON's first customer in the US food-retailing market, and the first company in the world to implement WITRON's fully automated logistics and picking system, OPM (Order-Picking Machinery). Today, WITRON's systems are used in Kroger’s food retail business, drugstore sector, dry goods assortment, and fresh and frozen goods area.
With revenue of $98 billion and 375,000 employees, the food retailer The Kroger Co., headquartered in Cincinnati, is one of the largest retailers in the world.
The WITRON Logistics + Computer Science GmbH is a German company and the global leader for the design and production of logistics and material flow systems. The company's headquarters is located in Stone Park in the Upper Palatinate. The company was founded in 1971, employs 2,000 people and achieved an annual turnover of around €265 million at the end of 2013.
