To realize its strong growth ambitions, Bricolux is expanding the use of the SCALLOG solution, from a new robotic zone to pallet management
In the winter of 2025, Bricolux will acquire a second SCALLOG area, installed under the mezzanine, which will have the particularity of integrating three stations and robots dedicated to the mixed management of shelves and pallets of products with high turnover, a new Goods To Man solution!
As Alain Collard, Managing Director of Bricolux, tells us, “At a time of strong growth, we aim to become “the logistics pioneer of the school world in Belgium” by 2026. To grow, the sine qua none condition is to constantly innovate in our offer, from products to services, and de facto in our logistics. Hence the need for Bricolux to go further in digitalization and automation in order to absorb our current and future growth, while compensating for the shortage of resources.” A wholesaler of school and educational materials since 1973, Bricolux is already positioning itself as a key player in the education and childhood sectors in Belgium, with professionals, its historical core target, and individuals. Building on the success of its first Goods to Man robotisation project, Bricolux has just renewed its confidence in SCALLOG, entrusting it with the creation of a new 300 m² automated area under the mezzanine, which will include a new solution, three stations and robots dedicated to the management of shelves and pallets.
Capitalize on SCALLOG to absorb its current and future growth!
Faced with constant growth in its product repository and logistics flows, Bricolux finds itself in 2025 with a warehouse in “near saturation” and a SCALLOG automated area in 100% use. Faced with the impossibility of “pushing the walls” and extending the existing automated area, Bricolux asked SCALLOG to densify its storage and intensify the automation of its order preparation, in anticipation of its future growth. To meet this demand in terms of optimising surface area, storage and productivity, SCALLOG recommends the installation of a second automated area, under the mezzanine, which includes as many shelves and pallet racks as possible, transported by robots, to two mixed picking and replenishment stations and to a specific pallet replenishment station.
The SCALLOG technological response was selected by Bricolux in the spring of 2025 for commissioning in December 2025. The new SCALLOG automated area, with an area of 300 m² under the mezzanine, will include 62 shelves and 9 pallet racks, which will be transported by 12 robots to 2 picking stations and 1 specific pallet station for high-turnover products.
Combining productivity, quality and working conditions!
In this new automated area, Bricolux will be able to manage more than 1,600 additional references, including high-turnover products, and to accelerate its retail order preparation, while making it more reliable. With the SCALLOG Pallet Management solution, consisting of a dedicated station and nine pallet holders transported by robots, Bricolux will be able to manage and automate a new flow, fast-moving products. According to the Goods to Man principle, a single-reference Class A pallet transported by a robot will come to the operator, who will be at the station, so that he can pick the product and the necessary quantity, quickly and reliably. The same will be true for pallet replenishment, which will be accelerated and made more reliable, via a dedicated station where the pallets will be deposited by a trolley, stored on a pallet rack near the shelves and taken care of by robots. In this way, Bricolux, in this new automated area, will be able to densify storage and optimize order picking for a greater diversity of product classes, synonymous with greater productivity. Bricolux employees are eagerly awaiting this new (r)evolution by SCALLOG, which has already made it possible to reduce their daily journeys from 12 kilometres to 5 kilometres, and to optimise their Quality of Life and Working Conditions – QWLC. Indeed, they are accompanied at all stages of restocking and especially picking, via indications and light beams – Spot-to-Light – with the result that the error rate is now 0.5%. With this new SCALLOG configuration, Bricolux wants to move towards a 100% accurate stock and an error rate of 0.1%, as part of its ISO 900114001 certification.
Alain Collard, Managing Director of Bricolux, concludes: “Innovation is at the heart of the agility and performance of our logistics, which ensures that we can accelerate our development and conquer new markets, in a sector where 80% of turnover is generated at the start of the school year. Proof of this is that we are thinking about deploying the SCALLOG solution under Rack to optimize our warehouse, from floor to ceiling, from m² to m³.”
