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Bomb bay ends Moscow hike
June 1st 2007

SDI Greenstone has supplied a high capacity sortation system to Bertram Books. The Ł1.4m 'bomb bay' system will enable Bertram to process up to 2,000 orders (around 50,000 books) each day The system, which will also be used to sort incoming consignments and to process returns, replaces a laborious and time consuming manual handling operation: until now Bertrams had been assembling orders by hand, customer by customer, meaning staff had to pick books one by one; the distances travelled each week equated to walking to Moscow and back.

With the new system titles are picked from stock in batches and automatically assembled into individual customer orders on the SDI Greenstone sorter.

Bertram Books' chief executive Terry Reilly says: "People are arguably our biggest expense. The SDI Greenstone system brings much more structure and discipline, and will reduce troublesome bottlenecks at both the goods-in and order assembly ends of the operations. The system will reduce unit costs significantly."

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