Mecalux is building Easy WMS and Pallet Shuttle into beverage logistics control

Easy WMS And Beverage Pallets

Mecalux published a March 10, 2025 update adding generative AI functions to Easy WMS. Easy WMS is the warehouse-management layer in the Mecalux portfolio, and the update lets warehouse users query operational information through a chat interface in seven languages. That software direction sits beside a physical pallet-flow case at Coca-Cola HBC Ireland and Northern Ireland. Reviewed sources did not confirm when Mecalux first worked with Coca-Cola HBC, so the Lisburn case remains a confirmed deployment record with an incomplete relationship timeline.

At the Knockmore Hill facility in Lisburn, the finished-goods warehouse manages 9,000 pallets for products sold across the island of Ireland. Coca-Cola HBC uses a semi-automated Pallet Shuttle system with four motorized shuttles that store and retrieve loads while operators position pallets with forklifts. That design keeps forklift-controlled front-end movement in the workflow while removing deeper lane travel inside high-density storage. For a beverage distributor measuring delivery in full, on time, and accurately invoiced, the operating question is whether pallet access and inventory control improve together.

Sixty Years From Racking To WMS

Mecalux says it has more than 60 years of warehouse-design experience and operates across racking, automation, and logistics software. Easy WMS extends that base into software control and is built by a team of more than 500 engineers. Mecalux says Easy WMS has been implemented in more than 1,200 facilities across 36 countries. The Coca-Cola HBC case therefore sits at the intersection of Mecalux storage hardware and software control, with Pallet Shuttle handling dense pallet flow and Easy WMS carrying the broader warehouse-management story.

The Mecalux case does not publish live DIFOTAI impact, goods-receipt cycle time, dispatch accuracy, shuttle uptime, pallet turns per day, or other Coca-Cola HBC sites using the same setup. The clearest public metric would be delivered pallets per labor hour by beverage SKU class. That would show whether the semi-automated Pallet Shuttle model improves beverage distribution control at Coca-Cola HBC while preserving operator-led forklift movement at the front of the storage process.

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