Customer story • warehouse automation

Nordic Nest scaled its warehouse automation on Bitlog WMS

Nordic Nest is a Scandinavian home-decor retailer founded in 2002, selling online from a warehouse near Kalmar, Sweden. Rapid growth pushed the warehouse through three build phases, now holding more than 40,000 unique items, from candles to sofas. Today the Scandinavian home-decor retailer runs an advanced automated warehouse on Bitlog WMS, with AutoStore, pack stations, and conveyors working as one flow.

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32,000m²
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60,000
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+250
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See inside Nordic Nest's rapidly growing automated warehouse, and hear how they run it

Johan Torudd, Operations Development Lead
Hampus Bergdahl, Data Engineer

“We moved in but quickly outgrew the warehouse as our sales and growth increased rapidly. Here, we have implemented an AutoStore, and we are preparing for the next step in our automation journey with Bitlog.”

Johan Torudd
Johan Torudd Operations Development Lead, Nordic Nest
About Nordic nest

Growth kept coming. The warehouse had to keep pace

Nordic Nest has been selling Scandinavian home decor online since 2002, shipping everything from candles and coasters to sofas and dining tables from its base near Kalmar, Sweden. Today's 32,000 m² site was built out in three phases, and it now holds more than 40,000 unique items alongside an AutoStore with 60,000 bins and a two-story automation station.
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the CHALLENGES

A warehouse module that capped growth

Before Bitlog, Nordic Nest ran its warehouse on a module inside its business system. It worked, until growth outran it.

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Manual at every step

Picking and put-away needed constant manual intervention, consuming valuable time.

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A capacity ceiling

The old setup couldn't absorb rising order volumes, so wait times stretched.

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Automation blocker

The ERP-system module limited what they could automate, which is exactly what the fast growth demanded.

The Solution

One system, easy to learn, built to scale

Nordic Nest didn't want a system that just tracked stock. They wanted one that could drive an expanding automation setup including AutoStore, pack stations, and conveyors, and keep orchestrating it as the operation grew.

Second, it had to be easy to learn. The business is seasonal, and headcount swings hard through the year, so a system nobody can pick up quickly slows the whole floor down. Bitlog was chosen to do both: run the automation and let new staff work independently, fast.

"It's incredibly easy for us to train new colleagues and get them operational."
- Hampus Bergdahl, Nordic Nest

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key features

How Bitlog works across Nordic Nest's warehouse

Nordic Nest doesn't run one automation island next to another. Bitlog acts as the hub that ties them together, so the whole warehouse moves as one flow.

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Integrations

Connected multiple tools into one unified system, so the whole floor runs from a single place.

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Automation

AutoStore, pack stations, and conveyors. Automated 15 key workflows saving 20+ hours weekly.

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Relay Picking

Hands orders from zone to zone, blending in-person picking and goods-automation picking into one pass.

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Suggest Inbound

Tells the team where to store incoming goods, and how much, across pick, buffer, and cross-dock.

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“Bitlog is contributing significantly to our automation journey, which began with the implementation of the AutoStore. Bitlog plays a crucial role in supporting that integration.”

Johan Torudd
Johan Torudd Operations Development Lead, Nordic Nest
Integrations

Multiple systems, one view

The hard part of automation isn't the robots. It's getting them to work together.

With Bitlog's support, Nordic Nest pulled its whole automated warehouse into one orchestrated flow: Relay Picking hands orders across zones, and integrations to multiple, separate systems come together in a single view. The team runs the entire floor from one place instead of juggling disconnected tools.

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“Without Bitlog, I don't think we would have reached where we are today. We had significant capacity issues with our previous system. Bitlog has helped us elevate this to a new level.”

Hampus Bergdahl
Hampus Bergdahl Data Engineer, Nordic Nest
the results

Growth without the ceiling

The obstacles the old module created are gone. Nordic Nest can now take a wider view of its operations and put time into the work that actually drives the business forward, instead of firefighting capacity.

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32,000 m² warehouse

Grown through three build phases as sales climbed, with Bitlog WMS scaling right alongside it.

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60,000 AutoStore bins

Goods-to-person picking, orchestrated by Bitlog WMS in one flow with the manual zones.

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40,000+ unique items

From candles to sofas, all managed in a single system instead of a patchwork of manual steps.

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Up to 250 people at peak

Higher order pressure no longer means longer wait times, so the warehouse keeps shipping on time even at full headcount.

Nordic Nest can focus on what's next

With Bitlog WMS, Nordic Nest turned a warehouse that was holding growth back into one that enables it. Rising order pressure no longer adds wait time, and inbound work that used to eat hours now frees the team for projects that move the business forward.

Ease of use carries the seasonal swing too: headcount climbs steeply for peak, and because a new picker is typically productive in about 15 minutes with Bitlog, up and picking their first order without a week of hand-holding, Nordic Nest can bring people on fast and keep shipping on time at full headcount.

Most importantly, Bitlog orchestrates Nordic Nest's full automation setup, AutoStore, pack stations, and conveyors, as one flow, and forms the foundation for the next steps in their automation journey.

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Same pace, more orders

Order pressure went up. Wait times didn't. Bitlog WMS lifts capacity so growth stop straining the floor.

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The quiet win

Growth only works if people can keep up with it. New pickers get productive fast, so scaling the team for peak never becomes the bottleneck.

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Large-scale automation

A warehouse built for the long run: large-scale automation with AutoStore, pack stations, and conveyors, all coordinated by one system.

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