TJ Morris has awarded Witron the order to design and implement a c.1 million ft² distribution centre for food and non-food products in Doncaster.
The automated facility is designed for a daily picking capacity of 646,000 cases and will supply over 300 stores from a range of 10,000 different dry goods from mid-2028.
The cases will be picked using Witron’s Order Picking Machinery (OPM) including 32 COM machines, the Dynamic Picking System (DPS), and the semi-automated Car Picking System (CPS).
Additionally, a TJ Morris distribution centre of similar size will be put into operation by Witron in St Helens in May 2025, and Witron have already received the contract for the Doncaster Distribution Centre.
Witron UK sales manager Duncan Pointon said: “In addition to the benefits for consumers in the stores, a decisive criterion for TJ Morris was also the focus on the employees who will work with WITRON technology in the distribution centre in the future.
“They will benefit from state-of-the-art, ergonomic workstations, which is an enormous competitive advantage in times of labor shortages.
“In addition, the issue of sustainability, is addressed in many different ways – for example through significant CO2 savings due to densely packed load carriers, optimal truck utilisation, and fewer trucks on the roads.
“Furthermore, through space savings in construction and by significantly reducing excess goods, breakage, and waste.”
