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Ikea Breaks Ground on New Distribution Center in Montreal
June 20,
2018 by Jason Schneider in Business Strategy, Industry 
Ikea is breaking ground on a new distribution center in Montreal that will service both the United States and Canada.
The new center will support current Ikea retail formats, but will allow the company to compete in e-commerce and smaller retail formats with faster service and greater storage capacity. Ikea selected Charlotte, N.C.-based SSI Schaefer, a provider of products and systems for material handling products and solutions and waste technology, for the implementation.
Core elements include an automatic shuttle warehouse design that utilizes the SSI Schaefer 3D-Matrix Solution, a high-bay warehouse (HBW) with 245,000 pallet storage locations, ergonomic multi-order-picking workstations, and the warehouse control software, Wamas.
"At Ikea, we always strive to be more accessible, affordable, and more sustainable for our customers. This requires innovative logistics with fulfilment activities in various shapes and formats, enabling Ikea to be a multichannel retailer," said Claudio Marconi, head of logistics development of Inter Ikea Group.
The warehouse is scheduled to be completed in spring 2020.