Movu atlas for 3PL
Add shuttles when a client grows, and take them out when one leaves.
Running a 3PL warehouse means planning for business you can't see yet. Clients come and go, their ranges keep growing, and labour shortages now rank among the top challenges for Europe's largest logistics occupiers.
Benefits of a Movu atlas system
Every new contract changes the warehouse. Here's how Movu atlas keeps up.
Your volumes change with every contract.
The challenge
You can't always know which clients you'll win, how long they'll stay or how much they'll move. Build for the peak and much of the system sits idle. Build for today and you run out of room.
What Movu atlas does
Throughput rises with the number of shuttles, so you add shuttles as volumes grow and extend the racking when you need space, while the warehouse keeps running.
18,000 m²
KDL's second warehouse with Movu atlas, after its first in Lokeren
Every client's stock is different.
The challenge
One client ships full pallets, another needs picking, and the next one brings a pallet size you haven't stored before.
What Movu atlas does
The same system stores pallets, keeps picking stocked and holds outgoing loads for the truck. The shuttles handle standard pallet formats, so different clients' stock can share one system.
Up to 2,400 mm
pallet height handled at ODTH, alongside Euro and industrial pallets
Space is the one thing you can't add mid-contract.
The challenge
When a client grows, the building doesn't. Every forklift aisle is floor that holds no stock.
What Movu atlas does
Shuttles work deep storage lanes and need fewer, narrower aisles, so more of the floor holds pallets.
45,000
storage locations in KDL's 10,000 m² distribution centre
Labour is hard to find, and harder to plan around.
The challenge
In CBRE's 2025 survey of Europe's largest logistics occupiers, labour shortages ranked among the top business challenges, and labour availability was the most decisive factor in choosing a location.
What Movu atlas does
Shuttles move pallets in and out of storage automatically, with no forklift aisles to drive, so storage and retrieval doesn't depend on how many drivers turn up for a shift.
Up to 11,000
pallet movements a week of potential throughput at KDL
Your clients won't wait while you rebuild.
The challenge
Service levels don't pause for a building project, and a system that can't talk to your WMS is no use to anyone.
What Movu atlas does
It fits existing buildings as well as new builds, goes in phase by phase, and connects to your WMS through Movu's software.
20
shuttles planned across four levels of ODTH's existing Rumst warehouse
See it running at other 3PLs.
From multi-client distribution centres to deep-freeze storage: Movu atlas at work today.
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“
Movu's atlas is an efficient and scalable automated warehousing solution that can adapt to our requirements due to its modularity and the ability to add shuttles as required”
Kris De Leeneer
CEO, KDL
The Movu atlas Storage & Retrieval System
Five parts, one system. Here's what a 3PL needs to know.
The shuttle gets most of the attention, but it only works as well as the racking it runs on, the lifts that feed it and the software that tells it where to go.
stow Group builds the racking. Movu builds the shuttles and the software. Both come out of the same stow Group supply chain in Europe and the US.
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