Luton.16 Jul 2024 07:38
The Luton CFC, Ocado Retail's newest CFC, has rapidly scaled its operations to c.55k orders per week since its go-live in September 2023, relative to a planned design capacity of c.65k orders per week. The Luton CFC also has some of our latest innovations installed, including its first phase of On-Grid Robotic Pick ("OGRP"), enabling around a quarter of eaches to be picked robotically. At target, we expect c.70% SKUs to be picked robotically, with the combination of OGRP and Automated Frameload ("AFL") ultimately able to reduce labour costs by well over 100bps, driving the total labour productivity of CFCs to above 300 units per labour hour ("UPH"). At the end of the half, we had 26 live sites, comprising 22 CFCs and 4 Zooms, with a total of 112 live modules.