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Distribution intensive companies must continually strive to serve their customers in the most efficient and effective manner possible. For many, it’s a matter of survival when faced with fierce competition, rising customer expectations, and a labor workforce that is increasingly difficult and costly to attract, hire, train, and retain.
Fortunately, the evolution of warehouse automation technologies is allowing companies to evolve as well. Warehouse automation reduces costs, speeds service, and mitigates the risk of reliance on a challenging labor market.
Therefore, the purpose of this page is to share stories of how companies are evolving and successfully leveraging warehouse automation for their business and their customers.
Founded in 1966, Medline Industries Inc. is the largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of healthcare supplies in the United States. Its distribution centers serve as regional hubs providing next-day service to hospitals, physicians’ offices, surgical centers, care facilities, big box retailers and pharmacies. It chose the Swisslog robot-based AutoStore system to automate its Libertyville, Illinois distribution center.
Decathlon, a global sporting goods store with 1,700 stores in more than 60 countries, was looking for a new, unique and better customer journey to support their Western Canada customers. Located on the second floor of South Central Mall in Calgary, Canada, they turned to Bastian Solutions to design and integrate a customer-facing microfulfillment solution. The microfulfillment system is primarily comprised of the AutoStore goods to person system, Bastian Solutions’ conveyor and Exacta intralogistics software.
The Locus multi-bot pick system delivers higher productivity, lowers labor costs, and easily scales to meet your peaks and growth
It's no secret that ShipMonk is ahead of the game when it comes to warehouse efficiency, but as the needs of ecommerce merchant evolve we want to stay two steps ahead. With partners like Locus, ShipMonk has been able to maintain industry-leading SLAs and give merchants peace of mind that their order will be fulfilled on-time across any of its warehouses.
Active Ants provides warehousing services to various webshops in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. This e-fulfillment company from the Dutch city of Nieuwegein stores and packs goods for its customers and handles distribution. This mostly involves small items that require a lot of storage space.
Asahi DC achieves 250% productivity boost with Dematic Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS)
Through our Polaris strategy, we've made huge strides in modernizing our supply chain. Incorporating automation in our fulfillment centers is key to our journey. Automation tools increase the capacity in our existing fulfillment centers and help expedite our processing time to deliver orders to our customers faster. So, what does automation in action look like and how is it helping us to transform the business?
Fortna helped L.L.Bean extend the life of its DC, combine channels under a single roof and optimize operations for increased speed and productivity. Watch this video to learn more.
SSI SCHAEFER has delivered an automated storage and handling solution to Innnes, Iceland's leading wholesaler and importer of high-quality food products. The new warehouse has three different temperature zones for storing dry goods, frozen goods and fresh goods. An innovative combination of automatic and manual systems ensures transparent product flow, high performance and efficient processes.
To drive its growth rate, British Sugar has turned to technology. Mecalux has developed an automated solution that speeds up handling and storage operations, maximises available surface area, and ensures precise product traceability. The new warehouse, connected automatically to the production centre, is equipped with the pallet shuttle system with stacker cranes. The solution, which automates all product movements, allows British Sugar to speed up storage tasks and efficiently cope with increased demand.
Based in the Netherlands, apo.com Group, a leader in automated online pharma, has invested in a fleet of our RightPick™ piece-picking robots to integrate with its cube storage automation from AutoStore. Its new 220,000 square feet facility has the capacity to ship €1,5 Bn worth of product a year, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. apo.com Group relies on RightPick to autonomously operate in both inbound receiving and outbound order fulfillment - picking, scanning, and placing thousands of SKUs a day.
Plzensky Prazdroj is the largest brewer in the Czech Republic and is part of the Japanese Asahi Group. In search for optmising costs and ROI of newly built warehouse in brewery Radegast in Nošovice, the customer decided to turn to System Logistics to concretely meet customers technological needs.
Boxy is Hungary's most innovative and outstanding logistics provider for online retailers. To strengthen their market position, Boxy decided to invest in highly robotized, cutting-edge technology. By using Körber’s WMS, SDS and Unified Control System (UCS) in combination with the Geek+ and Libiao robots, Boxy was able to increase their picking efficiency by fourfold and can sort up to 1,300 packages per hour
Mr Price Group's highly-automated DC in Hammarsdale, South Africa enables them to handle 20% YOY growth and helps them prepare for the future with increased speed, accuracy and flexibility.
The AutoStore Black Line at the new PUMA Indianapolis DC is helping fulfill an increase in e-commerce orders by increasing capacity over 10x and bin deliveries per hour by 25%.
By combining the right hardware, software, processes and people, Best Buy has achieved a better supply chain operation, from inventory management and increased order accuracy, to improved lead times for superior customer service and an overall reduction in costs
In Ocado's grocery warehouses, thousands of mechanical boxes move on the Hive. Are they all individual robots? Or is this one giant hive mind?
Amazon is the world's biggest retailer, and it goes without saying that they need a Gigafactory to conduct their operations. The fulfillment center in Pheonix, Arizona, is the largest Amazon warehouse in the world, and we're going to look at what happens in there once you have hit "Buy Now."
At Walmart’s regional distribution centers (RDCs), our work with Symbotic is shaping both how we receive merchandise today and how we will receive freight in the future. The game-changing, first-of-its-kind tech gets products onto shelves for our customers even faster, while saving time for Walmart employees.
This new distribution center is located in Dubai, UAE, and spans across a plot size of 265,000 square meters. It has a capacity to store and handle up to 2.2 million cartons and 2 million textiles on hangers. Dematic provided the extensive automation technology for this highly modern storage facility, including a pallet high-bay warehouse, two Dematic Multishuttle systems, and a garment-on-hanger sorting system. Dematic IQ software controls the systems smoothly and efficiently and provides operation data in real time.
Carrefour is a multinational retail and wholesaling corporation, operating a chain of over 12,225 hypermarkets, grocery stores and convenience stores in more than 30 countries.
This distribution center in Le Plessis-Pâté, France houses two indepently operating Skypod systems to service ambient and cold orders. Tempratures within the systems range from 0-32 degrees celcius with more than 13,000 product references.
L’Oréal is a leading company in the cosmetics sector and sells 36 brands in 150 countries worldwide. A tailored automated warehouse in Mönchengladbach in Germany helps L’Oréal increasing their service level and efficiency of the logistics processes.
Newegg, one of the largest e-commerce electronics retailers in the U.S., opened a new, 400,000 square foot distribution center in Indianapolis, IN, to better support its growing Midwest customer base. The new system features Perfect Pick, a robotic, goods-to-person shuttle system; Exacta: Warehouse Execution System (WES); ZiPline low-profile conveyor; and a light-directed picking lane for fast moving SKUs.
Kroger is a shining example of innovative thinking backed by solid research and smart decision making. Incorporation of Cimcorp's fully automated warehouse system helps the company improve accuracy, product traceability and faster turnaround times.
The integrated solution implemented by System Logistics features automatic picking and in-line mixed case palletising. The plant covers an area of 4,200 square metres on a single floor. It operates at a temperature between 0° and 4°C and is sized to manage a daily flow of 15,000 picking packages.
Meijer and WITRON have again worked together on installing this fully automated food distribution center in Wisconsin. WITRON’s automation technology enables optimal picking of cases onto pallets for store order fulfillment.
SSI Schaefer has implemented an automated channel storage system in the deep-freeze sector (-24°C) for the food manufacturer Mydibel in the Belgian Mouscron. Controlled by the warehouse management system WAMAS®, storage and retrieval machines with Orbiter®-Shuttles and an intelligent material flow concept provide high transparency, significant efficiency increases and improved service. The solution provides a fully automated handling for the storage and picking of frozen food guaranteeing a continuous cold chain.
A 100% automated, turnkey warehouse for Würth. The logistics centre has the most modern equipment to store and transfer goods to the other areas automatically. The German multinational Würth, a leading assembly and fixing materials specialist, has expanded its installations in La Rioja, Spain. This 70,000 m2 logistics centre has been developed specifically for national product supply. Mecalux put together this “turnkey” project, setting up a multi-solution design that more than meets the growing needs of Würth. This distribution centre, built adjacent to the company’s existing warehouses, consists of a middle installation and a 26 m high, 115 m long warehouse with five stacker cranes. The result is a clad-rack warehouse that holds more than 15,000 pallets and another two-floor interconnecting installation.
With the rising demand of consumers shopping online, the global 3PL transport and logistics company DSV needed to increase their capacities to deal with the growing number of e-commerce orders. SSI SCHAEFER implemented a highly automated solution in the existing distribution center in Brampton, Canada.
Alliance Entertainment needed a better and faster way to store and retrieve its products while also allowing the company to change and adapt in order to take on future business. Therefore, they invested in major state-of-the-art material automation and handling equipment to enable the capability to ship orders same day. Order processing for in-stock items is streamlined using advanced warehouse management software (WMS) systems which include wave picking by RF hand held scanners and barcode-scanned item progress.
Automated, high speed sortation and packaging equipment allows for efficient, same day order processing, while real-time inventory levels ensure backorders are minimal. The virtual inventory system gives customers real-time visibility to items on hand.
Near Barcelona, a highly automated global multi-channel distribution center was created for Spanish fashion retailer Mango. It centralises all of the fulfilment centres in one location. Currently, this central logistics hub is used to supply more than 2,200 stores in over 100 countries. The highly automated solution ensures optimum performance and high throughput capacity.
Présentation de la plateforme logistique Leroy Merlin de Réau. The warehouse of tomorrow.
CEVA Logistics, one of the world's leading supply chain management companies with 78,000+ global customers, launched Autonomous Mobile Robots to help manage the eCommerce boom. Learn how Körber helped CEVA Logistics Australia achieve a 400% boost in picking rates through implementing AMRs.
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