Case Studies
MW Logistics quadruples warehouse productivity
The customer
MW Logistics is an e-commerce logistics service provider with a distribution center on the GermanPolish border. The company off ers full-service fulfillment, from warehousing to shipping, handling of returns, and telephone support.
The challenge
Manual picking proved to be a constraint to the rapid growth of the company. MW wanted to increase efficiency significantly without hiring additional workers.
Our solution
A total of 57 Geek + robots work on an area of 12,500 square meters with 650 shelves.
- The robots are designed to work safely with the warehouse staff.
- The system comprises 6 robot loading stations and 7 picking stations.
The Geek+ impact
- The implementation of the system led to an increase of 300% in picking efficiency by significantly reducing the distances employees have to travel in the warehouse.
- Extremely high picking accuracy of > 99 %.
- Picking rate of up to 400 pieces/h per picking station.
- Fast project implementation within 12 weeks.
- The robots do not need light during operation so that many lamps can be switched off . Thus, a saving potential of several thousand euros per year can be generated.
- The working conditions for the workers have improved, which leads to a lower employee fluctuation.
Geek+ and Paack Partner to Set European Benchmark for Ultra-Large Scale Sorting
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
Geek+ Rapid 12 day deployment helps Stork-Up 12-day deployment improve accuracy and efficiency by 300%
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
Catch.com.au improves services with over 100 AMRs
About Customer
Catch.com.au is one of Australia’s leading online retailers. Founded in 2006, they aim to bring new e-commerce solutions to Australia and support online shoppers with a wide range of brands and products at low prices. Purchased by Westfarmers Group in June 2019, they experienced rapid business growth.
The challenge
- Low warehouse storage efficiency cannot meet regular storage demands
- Rapid surge in demand
- Rapidly growing customer base with 30,000 new customers every week
- High expectations for fast and accurate deliveries
Our Solution
- Over 100 picking robots were deployed in Catch.com.au’s 2,000 sqm facility to manage an inventory of 80,000 SKUs
The Geek+ impact
- The ability to quickly expand operations in line with growth
- Improved picking efficiency; picking rates up to 2000 items / h
- Increased throughput capacity and speed of delivery
Geek+ implements first large-scale AMR sorting system for Banggood’s e-commerce business
The customer
Banggood is a global e-commerce player focused on B2C cross-border export. With 37 international warehouses and deliveries bound for over 200 countries, Banggood is committed to bringing high-quality goods, efficient supply chain and top-class customer service to the world.
The challenge
Due to the accelerated shift towards e-commerce, Banggood faced challenges of rapid growth in online sales, unpredictable demand, labor shortages, and higher requirements for safer operations. With labor-intense processes often subject to inaccurate sorting, the company turned to Geek+ to automate its warehouse and realize and upgrade in its sorting operations.
Our solution
- To meet customer demand, Banggood turned to Geek+ Fleetsort solution, using a combination of S20T and P500 robots and realize more efficient and accurate operations through automated parcel sorting.
The Geek+ impact
- Reduced labor costs
- Reduced investment in fixed facilities
- Significant improvements in sorting efficiency
- 99% sorting accuracy
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
Vipshop introduces ‘goods to person’ picking method, tripling the picking efficiency by 3 times
Geek+ deployed 100 robots, helping Vipshop save costs and increase efficiency.
The customer
Vip.com (NYSE: VIPS) is the third largest ecommerce platform in China, specializing in online branded discounts covering a wide range of products from apparels, shoes & bags, cosmetics, maternity and child products to home goods and more. With over 330 million members and 430 million annual orders, VIP.com is the world’s largest online discount retailer.
The challenge
VIP.com needed to rapidly increase the efficiency, agility and flexibility of its warehouses to support orders growth and assist the success of its flash sales business model. It was facing the following challenges:
- Large inbound and outbound traffic marred by lower manual efficiency and higher error rate
- Massive SKUs presenting various storage needs and high fluctuations
- Need for large-scale efficient and accurate small parts picking
Our solution
- The Geek+ picking system was implemented in under two months, launched in August 2016
- Full system included combination of wave picking and order picking
- Project area covered 6000m2, deploying 121 intelligent robots and 2000 shelves racks, accommodating an inventory of 1 million daily pieces
The Geek+ impact
- Daily shipping capacity reached 80,000-100,000 pieces
- Picking efficiency multiplied by three: 400-600 pieces / hour / station
- Significant labor cost saving
- Increased storage space
- A flexible picking tool, scalable during big promotional days
Suning Logistics smoothly operates intelligent warehouse, greatly improving picking efficiency and accuracy
Geek+ works with Suning to create an open, shared intelligent logistics ecosystem.
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%
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