French third-party logistics provider Dimolog has expanded its Scallog goods-to-person installation at the Bain-de-Bretagne warehouse where it has operated for L’Oréal since late 2025. The site now houses a 2,000 sqm robotic zone — significantly larger than its initial footprint — designed to absorb sharp swings in volume as the beauty group’s e-commerce activity continues to scale.
Operational Details
The expansion lifted the number of picking stations from six to ten and boosted the robot fleet from 32 to 58 units. Reserved for slow-moving SKUs, the goods-to-person zone now spans hundreds of mobile shelves and roughly 30,000 storage locations, with an effective throughput of up to 30,000 order lines per day. The Scallog cell is fully tied into the wider mechanised flow at the site, sitting alongside conveyors and sorters governed by the EGO warehouse management system from French software vendor Sitaci. The warehouse runs seven days a week.
Productivity Gains
Scallog says the goods-to-person layout multiplies picking productivity by roughly three compared with traditional walk-and-pick processes, and trims required storage area by 30% to 35%. Beyond the throughput benefits, the supplier highlights the labour angle: simplified task content makes the operation easier to staff in a tight French logistics labour market and reduces the physical strain on operators. According to Antoine Vézo, director of Dimolog Brittany, the goods-to-person approach delivers gains in productivity, service quality and working conditions while preserving agility in the face of accelerating and increasingly complex e-commerce flows.
Strategic Context
The retrofit underlines how 3PLs serving large beauty and personal-care accounts are turning to mobile-shelf systems to handle the long tail of cosmetic SKUs without locking themselves into rigid mechanisation. For Dimolog, scaling the Scallog footprint preserves the option to flex capacity up or down as L’Oréal’s omnichannel mix evolves — particularly important on a contract that combines store replenishment with direct-to-consumer fulfillment.
With the larger automated zone now live, the Bain-de-Bretagne site is positioned to handle further volume growth without major disruption to its existing flows.
