Layer Picker Gantry

Master complex order fulfillment with our award-winning gantry system, recognized with the P&G Supplier of the Year Award. Handle 98% of common grocery SKUs, scale your throughput, and achieve up to 90% automated dispatch.

Layer Picker Gantry in a warehouse

Unlock faster fulfillment and operational stability

Streamline your high-volume replenishment flows to bypass the slow pace of manual pallet preparation. Your team benefits from reduced physical strain, while the system delivers the precise output needed to optimize even your peak periods.

In numbers

Safety

70–100%

Dramatically improve workplace safety by reducing manual layer handling tasks by 70% to 90%.

SKU capability

98%

Handle up to 98% of common grocery retail SKUs to maximize your operational flexibility across diverse inventory.

Peak capacity

150

Maintain high-speed operations with up to150 cycles per hour, delivering a 100% increase in throughput versus manual picking.

Why choose Layer Picker Gantry

Benefits

Accelerate pallet building

Use high-throughput layer handling to automate full-layer picks, which results in significantly faster pallet building and replenishment cycles. 

Scale through labor shortages

Do more with fewer people. The Layer Picker replaces repetitive manual tasks with high-speed automation that operates reliably across every shift.

Protect your workforce

Improve workplace safety by reducing the physical strain and injury risks associated with lifting heavy trays, crates, and PET bottle layers.

Deliver perfect customer pallets

Increase order accuracy and stability while reducing product damage through precise, software-driven layer handling and automatic strapping.

Unify your material flow

Connect your picking directly with AS/RS and conveyors for an intelligent, end-to-end flow supported by deep integration expertise.

Maximum product versatility

Safely automate picking for challenging SKUs, including chips bags and fragile yoghurt containers, using industry-leading gripper technology.

AI-powered digital uptime

Automatic operation resets and AI-supported data insights from Operator Eye give you maximum facility uptime and rapid fault identification.

Proven global expertise

Benefit from Körber’s global install base of over 800 Layer Pickers, and decades of experience implementing layer picking in high-volume environments.

In action

Layer Picker Gantry: the only layer picker to handle up to 98% of all product types in a food retail distribution center.

Watch how the Layer Picker Gantry works on a real world environment.

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Compare our Layer Picker systems

From high-volume deep-freeze distribution centers to space-constrained sites, find a modular Layer Picker solution designed to fit your unique facility layout and throughput goals.

 

Layer Picker Mono Gantry 

Layer Picker Gantry 

Layer Picker Hoist 

Layer Picker Robot 

Layer Picker AMR 

Primary use 

Pallet-to-pallet picking with AMR pallet replenishment technology in space-constrained sites.

Pallet-to-pallet handling that allows multiple source pallets to be available simultaneously for picking onto customer pallets.

High-performance depalletizing for pallet-to-tray solution.

Solution suitable for pallet-to-descrambling, pallet-to-pallet picking, or both. 

Standalone turnkey system for flexible brownfield automation. 

Throughput 

Up to 270 picks per hour. 

Up to 100-150 picks per hour. 

Up to 200 layers per hour. 

Up to 220 picks per hour.

Up to 120 cycles/hour with 25% higher efficiency than conveyors. 

Footprint 

Modular and highly scalable design with limited building constraints.

Large scale capacity with modular design.

Minimal vertical footprint. Connects ground floor to mezzanine.

Flexible up to 8-position layout design with low height requirements.

Compact and growth-ready; no rigid conveyor rails. 

Temperature 

From deep freeze to ambient -28°C to +40°C.

From deep freeze to ambient -28°C to +40°C.

From deep freeze to ambient -28°C to +40°C.

From deep freeze to ambient -28°C to +40°C.

From deep freeze to ambient -28°C to +40°C.

Layer picker gantry in action

Layer Picker Gantry: Future-ready

Modern retail demands the ability to create complex ‘sandwich’ or ‘rainbow’ pallets quickly and accurately. The Layer Picker Gantry delivers this flexibility through: 

  • Dynamic order mixing. Pick full layers from multiple pallets simultaneously to consolidate mixed-product orders. 
  • High-capacity inventory. Manage up to 110 SKUs at once with the power to lift layers weighing up to 215 kg. 
  • Seamless product adaptation. Adjust to your evolving product mix without needing to modify existing packaging or configurations. 
  • Retailer-ready flexibility. Easily fulfill specific demands for less than full pallets for supermarkets and retailers.

“The automated layer picking system allows us to pick product layers from large numbers of pallets simultaneously. This enables us to achieve the further growth we are aiming for while maintaining quality.” 

Arie Thomassen

Director, AG Logistics Services

Downloads

Documentation

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Lifting heavy weights – from pallets and shoulders

Optimizing warehouse efficiency is a constant challenge. Discover smart, flexible solutions that handle SKU proliferation and speed without adding complexity.

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Making the complex simple for system integrators

Choosing the right picking solution is complex. As your expert partner in layer picking and depalletizing, read how we make the process easier and more efficient, from end-to-end.

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