Automation Strategies for your Distribution Success
The Need to Optimise
Companies today are under pressure on several fronts: the market demands competitive prices and shorter delivery times. Consumers want their orders delivered to any location they choose – complete and on time, of course. And retail customers increasingly expect their goods to be delivered in quantities that suit their replenishment processes.
Whether your organisation is facing pressure from a changing market and customer base, or you are looking to introduce leaner processes to optimise operational speed, efficiency and costs, optimising supply chains and distribution has never been more important.
Across all industries, high customer expectations, changing demands and additional restrictions have increased the pressure on companies.
In this e-book, we first examine the challenges facing retail, wholesale and e-commerce in European countries and the changes that these industries will face in the coming years.
Solution Strategies
Next, we explore automation and software solutions. These can be tailored to specific supply chains and broader operational needs and implemented as either standalone or integrated solutions. Through process improvements, more targeted labour deployment and inventory optimisation, better customer service, higher productivity and operational flexibility can be achieved.
Each of the solution strategies listed below is discussed in the e-book and is provided with a point system that clearly shows you the optimisation potential for the factors of processes, personnel or inventory. In addition, there are examples of solutions that we have implemented for our customers.
- Software
- Pick-by-Light & Put-to-Light
- Conveyor systems
- Automated Guided Vehicles and Autonomous Mobile Robots
- Automatic storage and retrieval machines and Multishuttle systems
- Goods-to-Person systems
- Micro-Fulfilment
- AutoStore
- Sorting systems and Pouch Sorters
- Robotics and Mixed Case Palletising
E-Book
Automation Strategies for your Distribution Success
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