About Customer

Founded in France in 1976, Decathlon is a professional sports goods retailer specializing in the mass sports market, integrating the entire production chain of sports product design, R&D, production, branding, logistics, and retail. With over 1500 stores in 49 countries, it is the largest sporting goods retailer in the world.

The challenge

The rapid growth of Decathlon's e-commerce business highlighted the limited performance of manual processes. Additionally, as a pioneer of the RFID technology,  Decathlon required higher picking efficiency and accuracy to meet its business goals.

Our Solution

• Geek+ provides innovative warehousing solutions for Decathlon’s massive Kunshan warehouse: an RFID technology-based goods-to-person picking and inventory program

• The project area is about 2,000 square meters, with 46 P800 robots, 7 picking stations, and 7 single-point stations. The total inventory of the warehouse is nearly 300,000, involving more than 20,000 SKUs

The Geek+ impact

• Shipment capacity increased to 40,000 pieces/day

• Picking efficiency has reached 300 pieces/hour, 300% increased from manual picking

• Picking system integrated with RFID technology improve inventory management and increase accuracy

• The single-point station adopted to save space and make the operation more flexible

The customer

Yanfeng focuses on automotive interior and exterior, car seats, cockpit electronics and safety. Since 2010, Yanfeng has actively expanded its presence globally market and has become the world’s largest automotive interior company. It currently has more than 230 factories worldwide and employs more than 65,000 people (including more than 6,700 engineering and design staff).

The challenge

• Cost: Labor costs are rising year by year
• Efficiency: It is increasingly difficult for logistics to meet high-frequency production needs
• Safety: High risk for manual handling
• Management: Unable to conduct WIP inventory management and data traceability

Our solution

• Geek+ provides Yanfeng with 18 P800 for picking and handling and introduces a self-developed inventory process management system
• Geek+ solutions take care of the handling and buffering of finished products after injection molding; before and after secondary processing, and picking and handling before delivery, effectively achieving unmanned and intelligent automation

The Geek+ impact

• 4 production areas are linked with robots for better efficiency, increasing average production tempo to 60s
• Average production tempo increased to 60S
• Feeding flow rate up to 60 cars / hour, twice the efficiency of traditional AGV
• Efficient and timely management of production flow, achieving a neat and organized site layout and scoring a system management accuracy rate of 100%
• Return on investment achieved in less than 2 years

The Customer

ACCA is the logistics arm of Daiwa House Group, a leading provider of construction and real estate services in Japan. ACCA is an advanced 3PL in Japan, using robotic automation to improve its operational efficiency.

The Challenge

With a fast increasing sales of shoes and clothes in Japan, more and more warehouse operators have to walk long distances back and forth between the storage area and delivering area. Aging population has increased scarcity and cost of labor. Geek+ solutions help decrease labor costs and make warehouse operations smooth and efficient.

Our Solution

• In 2017, ACCA first introduced 30 P500 P series robots and 800 Sets rack in a 2600㎡ area.
• In 2018, ACCA expanded the operations with 90 additional robots and 2400 Sets rack, with the warehouse expanding to 8000㎡.

The Geek+ impact

• Warehouse area: 8000㎡
• AGV: P500 120 Pcs
• Rack: 3200 Sets
• Working station: 12 Sets
• In the past two years, warehouse operations have significantly improved in efficiency.
• The number of workers decreased from 20 person to only 4 person by using only 30 Pcs robots.
• By using Geek+ solution, ACCA has also improved its brand image and become a renowned 3PL in Japan, attracting world renowned brands in their warehouse.

The customer

Ally Logistic Property, Co., Ltd (ALP) is the first professional logistic property developer in Taiwan. With its award winning warehouse solution Logistics Republic, the Company aims to create a new generation of logistics facility, by developing the logistics network, integrating resources and implementing the latest technology equipment, providing a highly efficient industrial environment for major industries and logistics services providers.

The challenge

Faced with an increasing variety of SKUs but restricted quantities, ALP decided to implement warehouse automation to facilitate its operation.

Our solution

• Geek+ implemented its picking solution in a 5776 square meter warehouse covering 10,000 active SKUs, for an improved picking rate of 450 pieces per hour.

The Geek+ impact

• Significant warehouse operation improvement
• Implementation of Geek+ AMR reduced picking workforce by 2/3
• New layout helped enhance 20% of space utilization
• No. of racks: 800
• No. of workstation: 15 (putaway: 6, picking: 9)
• No. of robots applied: 70*P800
• Picking rate/hr: 450/hr

The Customer

Empower is a new company which offers tailor-made logistics solutions for E-Commerce Industry. It is based in Hong Kong and it mainly caters needs for the client in the asia pacific (inc. XiaoHongShu and Globalegrow E-Commerce).

The Challenge

Develop an automated warehouse for mainland e-commerce client to increase its efficiency and meet peak requirement.

Our Solution

• Warehouse size: 1500 sqm; No. of workstation: 6+1
• No. of racks: 331* racks + 6* pallets; No. of robots applied: 15* P800

The Geek+ impact

• Combination of standard and simplified workstation to adapt picking process for both bin picking and pallet picking.
• The standard workstation is for piece picking while the simplified workstation is for large carton box picking only. Thus, forklift can directly pick the pallet at the simplified workstation to enhance the picking process.

The customer

Kerry Logistics is a third party logistics provider, warehouse operator and the oldest international freight services company in mainland China.

Dell is a multinational computer technology company that develops, repairs and supports computers and related products and services.

The challenge

Kerry Logistics manages and operates Dell’s Xiamen spare parts warehouse. The layout of the warehouse area is very compact, and the usage rate of the storage area is very high, which increases the difficulty of manual selection. The traditional manual picking efficiency cannot meet the timeliness of Dell’s outbound storage requirements.

Our solution

• Geek+ deployed 32 P500 picking robots and over 2,000 sets of shelves
• A dense storage method was implemented to meet high storage capacity and high space utilization requirements
• The solutions allows to manage massive SKUs and the solution is highly flexible, functions such as picking, loading, and inventory can be switched at any time according to business needs

The Geek+ impact

• Single package inventory efficiency multiplied by 10 with the integration of a fast visual inventory device
• Entirely open and unmanned process, optimizing space utilization
• The number of on-site operators has been reduced, and the timeliness and accuracy of the overall operation has been improved, saving labor and management costs

The customer

Bosideng, founded in 1976, is the largest manufacturer of down jackets， operating the most advanced production equipment in China, and has over 20,000 employees. Bosideng down jackets are hugely popular in 72 countries, such as the United States, France, Italy, with more than 200 million people wearing them in the world.

The challenge

• In-store sales are growing rapidly, and manual picking has become a bottleneck
• Forklift quantity is overly large, resulting in high costs, and personnel management is difficult；
• Automation rate is low, operation error rate is high

Our solution

• Provide an innovative storage solution for the warehouse operation of the Bosideng warehouse. The seeding container is directly the shipping carton, which is transported to the station through the suspension chain; the seeding wall is of two-layer fluent type, and the back is directly connected with the conveyor line and transported to the packing station for packaging.
• Build a logistics information platform via the logistics information exchange and warning feedback between the functional modules (WMS, WCS, TMS)
• Phase 1 project area covered 5000 square meters, utilizing 116 P800 robots, 15 picking stations and 3 single point stations are deployed. The total design inventory of the whole warehouse is nearly 150000, involving more than 6000 SKUs.
• Phase 2 project area covered 20,000 square meters and utilized 200 sets of P800 robots.

The Geek+ impact

• Delivery capacity increased to 3500 pieces / hour
• Single point RF putaway, reduced site occupation
• Enabled multi batch and small batch store replenishment
• Saved over 10 units of forklifts and over 50 manual workers
• Difficulty of personnel management is reduced, and the operation accuracy is established at 100%

The customer

Suning Logistics is China’s leading retail logistics company and the logistics arm of Suning.com, one of China’s largest retailers. Suning Logistics provides warehousing, distribution and other supply chain services and is dedicated to building the most efficient consumer goods warehousing services and smart logistics platform in China. At the end of 2018, Suning Logistics and subsidiary TTK Express had a total storage area of 9.5 million ㎡ covering 351 cities and over 2,858 districts and counties. Suning Logistics has over 2000 business partners around the world from a wide range of industries.

The challenge

To enhance customer service and support growing demand, Suning has been looking into new efficiency drivers for its warehouses, including unmanned warehouse technologies. In 2010, it started implementing traditional automation processes in its warehouses. Realizing the limits of traditional automation processes, specifically the lack of autonomy and AI applications, Suning started looking into autonomous mobile robotics solution.

Our solution

• In 2017, Geek+ deployed 70 P800 picking robots carrying 1058 shelves and pallet racks, and integrated their management system into Suning’s warehouse management system (WMS) to achieve full goods to person automated picking
• In 2019, Geek+ deployed 15 P800 picking robots and 193 shelves, integrating the robots’ management system with Suning Logistics’

The Geek+ impact

• Warehouse daily orders multiplied by three
• Picking efficiency 3 to 7 times higher: overall average picking capacity of 300 pieces/hour/station compared to 100 pieces before
• Incredible impact during 11/11 international shopping festival, with maximum picking capacity of 700+ pieces per hour per station, for average of 500 pieces per hour per station
• Overall storage capacity increased by 40%
• Increased storage capacity thanks to flexible layout of shelves
• Picking capacity reached 600 pieces/station/hour
• Overall productivity increased by nearly 50%

Established in 2001, Yonghui Superstores is a Shanghai-listed (601933) company operating supermarket chains. It has nearly 900 supermarkets in 24 provinces and cities across China, covering over 6 million square meters. China’s biggest supermarket chain in 2018, it is a top 100 China Company.

The challenge

• Significant increase of single item orders
• Need to improve warehouse in and outbound order processing efficiency to meet higher volume demand
• High labor costs

Our solution

• Yonghui Superstores’Kunshan Warehouse in April 2019. Operated by Geek+, we provide a comprehensive robotics solution with full picking system and business intelligence monitoring
• The project area is about 1600 square meters, using 43 P800 robots, 186 shelves, and 80 tray holders, focusing in and out processing of food and daily consumer goods

The Geek+ impact

• Average picking efficiency multiplied by three (153 lines / hour)
• Daily shipping processing capacity is in the 5000-7000 order line, easily solving the increased demand requirements for East China region
• Picking error rate significantly decreased
• Shorter working time and more cost-efficient on-site management
• Reduction of on-site manual labor to achieve cost reduction and efficiency gains