About Customer

UPS Supply Chain Solutions® offers a comprehensive portfolio of services to enhance customers' business performance, including logistics, distribution, and transportation.

Allbirds is a global lifestyle brand that innovates with naturally derived materials to make footwear and apparel products in a better way, while tredding lighter on the planet.

The Challenge 

With a wide range of order profiles from its footwear and apparel customer, Allbirds, UPS Supply Chain Solutions® needed a scalable yet standardized automation solution that could be seamlessly expanded across multiple distribution centers. 

Our Solution

After initially starting with 27 P-800 goods-to-person picking robots, UPS Supply Chain Solutions® scaled its automation to 184 robots across two warehouses covering the West and East Coast of the United States.                                                  

The Geek+ impact

• 97% increase in peak unit throughput year over year
• 400% increase in picked units per hour year over year
• Experienced back-to-back record days during Peak
• Multi-lingual system allows for greater employee inclusion
• Accelerated training time from 1 week to approximately 2 hours
• Flexibility to share labor between multiple operations 
                       

The customer

Geely Auto Group, a prominent automotive manufacturer in Asia, is steadfast in its ambition to become the most competitive and esteemed regional automotive brand. Under its umbrella are Geely Auto, Lynk & Co, and Geometry brands.

In the year 2020, Geely ushered in a groundbreaking era by adopting a modular strategy, encompassing BMA, CMA superstructures, SPA, and SEA vast architecture.

By October 2020, Geely celebrated a remarkable achievement, surpassing 10 million vehicles in cumulative global sales, a historic feat for an Asian automotive brand.

The Challenge:

• Wide Business Coverage: RDC warehouse manages storage for 400+ suppliers and over 7,000 parts, while also handling in-factory logistics.
• Storage Space Challenges: Faced with space constraints in warehouse storage.
• High Efficiency and Accuracy Demands
• High standards for picking and outbound operations.

Our Solution:

Optimized Upper-Level Storage: This innovative solution effectively utilizes upper-level storage (2-5) within the vertical warehouse. It seamlessly combines the X1200 omnidirectional robot with intelligent high-speed vertical elevators, resulting in automated bulk material storage and retrieval.

Efficient Picking at Ground Level: The P800 picking robots operate efficiently at the ground level of the vertical warehouse. They transport pallets and boxed materials to the workstation, significantly streamlining the picking process.

Geek+ Impact:

• 8000 Square Meters Saved: By maximizing upper-level storage for enhanced efficiency.
• 60% Efficiency Enhancement: Operations experience a remarkable boost in productivity.
• 99% Inventory Accuracy: Precise inventory management ensures smooth operations.
• 100% FIFO Execution: Adherence to the first-in, first-out principle is guaranteed.

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The Customer

DB Schenker is the third largest brand of Deutschen Bahn AG since 2007, along with DB Bahn and DB Netze. Its business scope includes All transport and logistics services of the DB Group. One of the world's leading providers of international transportation and integrated logistics services. 

The Challenge

- Guaranteed timely order processing and fast delivery
- Reduce carbon emissions
- Improve customer experience

Our Solution

- Geek+ standard shelf-to-person solution
- More than 200 AMR robots

Geek+ Impact

- The average daily processing order exceeds 120,000

- Empower customers such as Adidas to fulfill online orders at lightning speed
- Guaranteed seamless returns order processing
- Reduce carbon emissions throughout the distribution process

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The Customer

OEG is a global specialist in advanced heating, ventilation and air conditioning, supplying German wholesalers and manufacturers as well as the international market with the components needed for heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems.

The Challenge

• 15,000 sq. ft. warehouse with over 80,000 kinds of parts, access efficiency needs to be improved
• High demand for shelving due to the large number of specialized products and different size SKUs
• To cope with the order flood and business expansion, high flexibility solution is needed

Our Solution

Goods-to Person, P800

Customer value

• Go live within 3 months without production downtime
• Customized shelves flexibly adapt to customer needs
• Easily cope with order floods
• Effectively manage operating costs

The customer

Founded in 1991, Tica is committed to becoming the world's leading system supplier and service provider of intelligent environment and green energy. After 31 years of innovative development, its leading products have been the first in the national market share for 12 consecutive years, and its products are widely used in projects such as Bird's Nest, Water Cube, C919 large aircraft, big rocket, Baihetan Hydropower Station, etc.

The challenge

• Traditional manual efficiency and accuracy to be improved
• Warehouse capacity needs to be improved
• Need to ensure information pull-through and product stability without stopping

Our solution

Four-way Shuttle Solution

Customer value

• Significant increase in warehouse utilization
• Improved operational efficiency
• Human-machine mixing is safe and reliable
• Full manufacturing process information pull-through

The customer

Paack is a technology-enabled delivery solution provider that currently delivers millions of orders per month to approximately 150 international customers such as Amazon, Apple, Inditex, AliExpress, Nike and Nespresso.

The challenge

• Loose coupling of multiple links, need to achieve integrated management
• Full process automation with timeliness, cost and efficiency

Our solution

S series, P series

Customer value

• For the first time, "last-mile picking" and "overstock picking" are carried out simultaneously
• 1000+ shipments per hour
• 99.99% order fulfillment accuracy rate

The customer

CJ Logistics has rich practical experience in the logistics industry and a logistics network covering the whole of Korea. Through continuous international expansion, CJ Logistics has a business network consisting of 154 legal entities covering 35 countries, providing customers with comprehensive logistics services such as contract logistics, freight forwarding and international express delivery.

The challenge

• Surge in order volume
• Increased customer demand for timeliness of product delivery
• Operational efficiency needs to be improved
• Business needs to expand rapidly

Our solution

P series

Customer value

• Provide customers with 24/7 service in a space of about 10,000 square meters
• Achieves an average daily processing of 30,000 orders and a 33% increase in operational efficiency
• Effectively reduces personnel movement and significantly improves picking efficiency and accuracy
• Gizika's Korea office provides localized service and rapid response to customer needs

The customer

Started in 1972, ALPEN has become one of the major sports goods retailers in Japan through its integrated business model of production and sales. At present, ALPEN has 8 private brands such as TIGORA and IGNIO in Japan, and represents world famous sports brands such as NIKE and adidas, with nearly 400 chain stores.

The challenge

• Difficult to cope with the huge number of SKUs
• Insufficient workforce
• Fragmentation of orders

Our solution

P800

Customer value

• 4X improvement in shipment picking efficiency
• 50% reduction in ALPEN order fulfillment time
• Achieved multiple warehouse expansions
• Achieve rapid sales growth
• Develop sales strategies that peers can't
• Improve customer shopping experience and satisfaction

The customer

LIFE365 Italy S.P.A. provides customers with cutting-edge high-tech products and builds a bridge of commerce between Asia and Europe through import and export contracts with important manufacturers in China, Japan, Korea, Singapore and other countries..

The challenge

• Long walking distance for employees, efficiency to be improved
• New employees are not familiar with the site, high training costs
• Frequent order changes, operation flexibility to be improved

Our solution

Goods-to-person

M200C

Customer value

• Significant reduction in ineffective employee movement
• Increased picking efficiency
• Smoother field operations
• Accuracy rate increased to 99.99%

The customer

Stork Up is an e-commerce order fulfillment and cross-border shipping solution provider based in Hong Kong, China. Founded in 2017, Stork Up works with a wide range of well-known brands covering everything from toys to apparel, cosmetics to health products, etc. Stork Up is committed to providing the best customer experience and empowering global online retailers to access more convenient e-commerce services.

The challenge

• Need to handle large volume of orders accurately and efficiently
• Agile and flexible supply chain to respond to market changes
• AMR needs to be easy to use and easy to deploy

Our solution

Goods-to-person

Customer value

• 12 days to deploy online
• 99.99% picking accuracy
• 300% improvement in accuracy and efficiency

About Customer

With over 25 years of experience in the local market, A&D Pharma is one of the largest pharmaceutical groups in Europe, offering pharmaceutical retail and drug distribution services, with a turnover of over 1 billion euros in 2021 and over 5000 employees.

A&D Pharma has two business lines, both of strategic importance: A drug distribution line and a pharmaceutical retail line.

About Partner

One of Europe’s leading chain of pharmacies, Dr.Max, recently upgraded their operations with a fleet of Geek+ shelf-to-person robots. Their distribution center in Bucharest, Romania, is now able to handle over 25 000 items a month with a picking accuracy rate of over 99%. The result is a new experience of shopping for medications for Dr.Max’s patients – the Hyper Pharmacy – where the experience goes beyond simply handing over a prescription and receiving medications.

The Challenge 

• The challenge posed by the growth of e-commerce businesses in recent years, as well as the demand of peak season.

• Delivering products with a very strict best-before date in a faster and more accurate way. Customers need products from outbound operations to be shipped with the correct best-before date (Expiry date)

Our Solution

• Dr. Max's distribution center in Bucharest (Romania) is operating currently with 96 P500 picking robots. The area in which the Geek+ shelf-to-person solutions operate is 3,200 m², out of a total warehouse area of 4,830 m².

• Dr. Max is able to handle more than 25,000 SKUs per month thanks to Geek+'s warehouse automation. With 99.99% accuracy, Dr. Max is able to handle 180 - 190 lines/hour during peak seasons.

• Dr. Max has become a gamechanger in the pharmaceutical industry by implementing these solutions. It has become one of the most powerful e-commerce players in Romania and has established a new way of shopping in pharmacies with a concept called Hyper Pharmacies.                                               

The Geek+ impact

• 99.99% accuracy in packet classification

• The warehouse supports more than 25,000 SKUs per month

• 96 P500 robots working 24/7

• One of the most important e-commerce platforms in Romania