Balyo SA announced signing of commercial agreement with Auchan for the management of more than 2,000 pallets within its distribution logistics center. Auchan Retail France intends to accelerate the adoption of handling robots and has chosen BALYO to provide autonomous storage and retrieval of 2,000 high-rack pallets within its logistics platform. As a reminder, the site inaugurated in 2021 is operational with a fleet of robots since 2021 fall.

It is a traditional logistics module formerly operated by a 3PL, which has been transformed since then to handle the movement of pallets dock to dock in a totally autonomous way. Delivery and storage operations are carried out in real conditions, representative of those of logistics warehouses or production sites. This partnership with Auchan includes the storage and retrieval of more than 2,000 pallets for a 6-month period, which can be renewed, based on an as a service pallet movement offer, paid for storage and pallet movement.

The pallets will be stored for 3 weeks in narrow (1.9m) aisles for reach robot (3.1m), with up to 200 pallets stored per day over an 8-hour period.