Sonepar Uses AutoStore to Consolidate Its Las Vegas Distribution Footprint
Sonepar’s Las Vegas AutoStore deployment highlights how dense-storage automation is being used to consolidate facilities, boost throughput, and redesign distribution networks.
What is this trend?
Sonepar’s AutoStore deployment shows dense-storage ASRS is being used not just to add capacity, but to consolidate multiple distribution sites into one higher-throughput regional hub.
- AutoStore is moving from single-site automation to network redesign.
- Sonepar merged three Las Vegas-area locations into one central DC.
- The system targets more throughput, faster Will Call, and far less floor space.
- Dense-storage ASRS is becoming a repeatable playbook for branch rationalization.
- Vendors that deliver end-to-end modernization are gaining an edge.
What’s the latest?
Sonepar used AutoStore to consolidate three Las Vegas-area locations into a single Codale Electric Supply central distribution center, extending the dense-storage rollout from repeatable site deployments into network red
How it developed
- Modular automation scales across networks, open orchestration gains ground, and warehouse economics shift to recurring models
- Dense-Storage ASRS Is Becoming a Repeatable Commercial Standard
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