Mango has set up a new logistics center in Spain. Approximately 600 people work six days a week at the highly automated facility, where around 400 operations are machine-driven, to process items for store deliveries. The 186,000 square meter facility can stock up to seven million hung garments and 20 million folded garments and accessories at the same time. By incorporating the latest automation technologies, the center can process 75,000 garments an hour. As soon as hung garments arrive at the facility they are unloaded onto one of nine automatic loading bays, which can process 27,000 garments an hour. Each bay is equipped with a classifier that separates the garments by size and style. They then travel along a 24-kilometer rail to be shipped out to stores or held in the warehouse. Mango’s hanging garment installation is one of the most automated in Europe.
On the opposite side of the logistics center are automatic loading docks that can process 1,000 boxes of folded garments and accessories an hour. The boxes are passed through a weighing and labeling area and identified with a tracking ID so they can be located at any time. Like the hung garment area, the folded garment warehouse prepares boxes to be either shipped or stored based on in-store sales information.
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