Case Studies
Geek+ Equips UPS with Faster E-Commerce Order Fulfillment
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
Over 200 AMRs help DB Schenker speed up the delivery of Adidas orders
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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From Shelf-to-person to PopPick, Geek+ empowers Zongteng to intelligently upgrade its global warehouses
The customer
As a cross-border logistics service provider, we provide standardized and customized end-to-end supply chain solutions for first-haul trunking, global warehousing and distribution, and after-sales returns. Since its establishment, Zongteng Group has completed the international network layout in Europe, the United States, Australia and Asia, and its service capacity has been continuously improved, with the overseas warehouse area reaching 1.2 million square meters in the industry.
The challenge
- Difficult to recruit and expensive to employ overseas
- Higher standards for timeliness
- Highly flexible and stable solutions are needed to cope with business changes
- High compliance requirements for patents and certifications in overseas markets
Our solution
Shelf-to-person, P800, PopPick
Customer value
- Smoothly respond to the flood of the promotion and promote sales growth
- Significant reduction in warehouse operations staff
- New employee training reduced to 30 minutes
- Bringing high efficiency and satisfaction to logistics services
Geek+ and CJ Logistics lead the upgrade of 3PL smart logistics in Korea
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
Italian 3PL Leader Life365 Enhances Multinational Cloud Deployment with High Speed and Intelligence
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%
Geek+ solutions improved Verte's warehouse throughput by 4x
About Customer
Verte is an AI cloud-based supply platform provider that connects, unifies, and automates commerce operations, powering retailers to sell wherever their customers are and focus on scalable growth.
The challenge
- Complex requirements across multi-sellers
- Needing to implement faster throughput for better customer satisfaction
Our Solution
- After purchasing 45 picking robots initially, Verte asked Geek+ to scale the solution to 130 picking robots and 3,000 racks in Verte's 750,000 sqft. warehouse in Georgia. Geek+ solutions enabled Verte to achieve greater warehouse productivity and meet rising consumer expectations.
The Geek+ impact
- Scaled throughput 4x times
- Implemented in less than 3 months
- Improved inventory storage and picking efficiency for both inbound and outbound fulfillment
- During peak season, Verte received over 250,000 units on the first shift with fewer than 50 staff-hours and didn't miss a single inbound or outbound service level agreement (SLA).
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ASDA launches UKs first national sortation project
About Customer
Asda Logistics Services is a hub of activity, with 39 nationwide distribution operations including 21 food depots, three clothing centers, two ambient GM hubs, two import centers, two dot.com fulfillment centers, and nine ASCs. Supporting distribution across five types of store formats as well as the delivery of parcels to customers’ homes and to store for Click and Collect, Asda Logistics Services distributes an estimated 800,000 deliveries to store and 20,000,000 deliveries to customers a year.
The challenge
- More customers shopping online, followed by surges in forward and reversed volume
- Boost Asda’s toyou e-commerce service to better serve customers
- Respond to fluctuating order volumes without having to invest in additional warehouse space.
Our Solution
- 60 Geek+ S20C robots were deployed on a sorting area of 360 sqm in Asda’s cross-docking facility.
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Geek+ & eStore Logistics partner to implement the largest rollout of AMRs in Australian e-commerce
The customer
eStore Logistics is Australia’s largest 3PL e-commerce fulfillment business. With a network of warehouses in Melbourne and Sydney, eStore strives to enable retailers across Australia to meet higher customer expectations by providing them with accurate, fast, and cost-efficient deliveries.
The challenge
Serving over 50 of Australia’s leading online retailers, eStore Logistics has a very wide SKU range. In turn, eStore Logistics was looking for a technology partner that could support its multi-customer business, flexibly meet rapidly changing SKUs and enable retailers to improve fulfillment performance while remaining profitable.
Our solution
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On the company’s 26,000 sqm warehouse Geek+ deployed 200 picking robots.
The Geek+ impact
- 30% reduction in logistics costs for eStore’s customers
- Improved same-day delivery service
- Productivity increased by 300%
- 99 % Picking Accuracy
DSV doubled its productivity by deploying Geek+ picking system
The customer
DSV is a global supplier of transport and logistics solutions. With offices and facilities in more than 90 countries on six continents, DSV provides and runs supply chain solutions for thousands of companies on a daily basis.
The challenge
In its Hong Kong warehouse, they have more than 6,000 SKUs of tiny cosmetic items in a 45,000 sq.ft area. Workers take time to walk through the warehouse and spot the right item to fulfill each order. This lowers the picking productivity & accuracy.
Our solution
- Geek+ deployed 42 picking robots, 739 racks & 9 workstations in DSV warehouse. Once DSV received clients' order, Geek+ RMS would control the picking robots to bring the right rack with the right amount of items for workers to fulfill multi-order picking. Workers no longer need to walk through the warehouse.
The Geek+ impact
- Productivity has been doubled
- Improved picking accuracy
- Reduce in labor cost
- Overall 200% increase in bin location and thus increasing storage capacity
- Innovative product application, assist brand marketing effectively
ACCA is the first to introduce Chinese logistics ‘goods to person’ robotic warehouse, fulfilling increasing orders
Geek+ first execution of overseas project marks its official entry into the Japanese market.
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.
ALP introduces warehouse automation to solve its problem of limited resources
Geek+ AMRs help ALP reduce its picking labor by two thirds, improving space utilization of new storage layout by 20%.
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
Empower teams up with Geek+ to build a fully automated logistics warehouse for clients
Geek+ flexible logistics solutions lead clients from convenience to agility.
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.
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