Sweden’s largest online pharmacy, Apotea, opened a new, highly automated warehouse in Varberg today. It is a state-of-the-art logistics center spanning 30,000 m² with a fully integrated automation solution from SSI Schäfer. Following a project delivery that is reportedly successful, the facility is now ready to begin operations.
The new warehouse is designed to meet Apotea’s growing need for scalability, sustainability, and faster deliveries to southern and western Sweden. The facility can handle over 30,000 unique SKUs, more than 50,000 orders, and over 150,000 order lines per day. The system is scalable and can be expanded to handle up to 70,000 orders daily as demand increases.
“The new warehouse features a perfect automation solution that we developed together with SSI Schäfer. This makes us even more efficient and better equipped for continued growth. “It’s also especially exciting to be able to enhance our service and offer faster deliveries to our customers in southern Sweden,” says Pär Svärdson, CEO of Apotea.
The fully integrated system enables Apotea to manage the entire order flow automatically—from receipt to shipment—with high precision and efficiency.
– We are proud to once again be part of Apotea’s automation initiative, where, as a full-service provider, we are delivering a fully automated warehouse solution that can scale to meet Apotea’s future needs. Building on our successful project in Morgongåva, the new logistics center will be highly automated from the start, with a workflow in which 100 percent of orders are handled fully automatically. “We look forward to continuing our close collaboration and driving innovation in logistics together,” says Jenny Heinze, Head of Sales Nordic at SSI Schäfer.
The automation solution includes, among other things: an SSI Cuby shuttle system with 174 shuttles and approximately 87,000 storage locations, an automated small-parts warehouse with approximately 45,000 storage locations and connected A-Frames (over 2,800 product channels), an A-Frame system for fast order fulfillment even under high load, and integrated picking robots for fast and accurate order fulfillment. The WAMAS Warehouse Control System (WCS) software has been installed to control and monitor the solution.
Installation of Apotea’s new warehouse solution began in the third quarter of 2024, and it will go live in conjunction with the upcoming grand opening.
