The Customer

• Circle K is a brand under Alimentation Couche-Tard, renowned globally for its convenience retail network.
• Hong Kong’s Circle K Convenience Stores embody the spirit of "daring to innovate and experiment," offering customers ever-changing shopping experiences and a sense of freshness.
• With over 300 stores across Hong Kong, Circle K Convenience Stores introduce diverse new products and innovative convenience services to enhance the daily lives of their customers.

The Challenge​

• Circle K Convenience Stores' new logistics distribution center spans an impressive 13,000 square meters, supporting over 300 stores across Hong Kong.
• The center is designed to meet the needs of 600,000 daily customers, ensuring a seamless supply of in-demand products.
• It handles a wide variety of goods, including food, refrigerated items, and daily necessities, with over one million items processed daily.

Our Solution

• Geekplus implemented 100 P800 picking robots in the new order fulfillment center, spanning 14,000 square meters. This center operates 24/7 to ensure continuous productivity.
• This solution enables the center to process over one million items daily, enhancing efficiency and reliability in supply chain operations.

The Geekplus impact

• Efficiency increased by 3x, significantly improving warehouse operations.
• Reduced labor intensity and minimized manual errors, ensuring smoother workflows.
• Picking accuracy greatly improved, enhancing order fulfillment reliability.
• Enabled the effective daily handling of over 1,000,000 products, meeting high customer demands with precision and speed.

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The Challenge 

With a variety of different SKUs, S&S Activewear needed an automation system that could seamlessly adapt and expand as their business grew.

Our Solution

Geekplus collaborated closely with Körber Supply Chain to optimize warehouse processes at S&S Activewear’s 750,000 sq. ft. facility in Lockport, Illinois. The implementation of Geekplus PopPick robotic solutions enabled S&S Activewear to achieve greater operational speed and throughput. Following the initial deployment, S&S Activewear expanded its partnership with Körber and Geekplus, rolling out Geekplus robotic solutions to three additional warehouse locations across the Americas.

The Geekplus impact

• Improved picking efficiency, accuracy and throughput

• S&S Activewear managed up to 16,000 orders daily during peak times 

• Easily scaled to meet the needs of S&S Activewear's growing business

About Customer

Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Bolingbrook, Illinois, S&S Activewear is a the leading technology-enabled distributor of apparel and accessories in the United States and Canada. S&S offers more than 80 brands, including basic garments to fashion-forward styles, with over 4 million square feet of warehouse space across North America. S&S services a broad range of customers through its nationwide network, including retail brands, e-commerce companies, garment decorators, promotional products distributors, entertainment merchandisers, lifestyle brands and web-based platforms for apparel customization.

About Partner

Supply chains are growing more complex by the day. Körber uniquely provides a broad range of proven end-to-end solutions tailored to help manage the supply chain as a competitive advantage. Fitting any business size, strategy or industry, our customers conquer the complexity of the supply chain thanks to our portfolio of software, voice, and robotics solutions – plus the expertise to tie it all together. Conquer supply chain complexity, with Körber. Find out more on www.koerber-supplychain-software.com

About Customer

Officeworks is a chain of Australian office supply stores. Officeworks offers customers a wide range of office supplies, technology, furniture and art supplies. It operates 168 stores across Australia, a website that is home to more than 40,000 products, a national call centre, and a business team that helps micro, small and medium-sized businesses start, run and grow.

The Challenge 

Officeworks needed to enhance its supply chain efficiency and manage a vast product range across multiple distribution functions, including online orders, cross-docking, and international distribution.

Our Solution

Officeworks launch an 15,000 sqm advanced customer fulfilment center (CFC) in Perth, Western Australia, equipped with 90 Geek+ autonomous solar-powered Geek+ mobile robots. 

The Geekplus impact

• Increased bulk storage capacity

• Improved stock fulfillment

• Maximized delivery operations

About Customer

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

The Challenge 

To meet the growing demand of a new customer, UPS Supply Chain Solutions® needed to reconfigure its warehouse layout to make room for new products and to scale up its operations with more Shelf-to-Person mobile robotic automation.

Our Solution

The relocation of 1,018 racks to a different warehouse area was completed in less than four hours. This ensured minimal disruptions to UPS's existing operations, and also provided the necessary space to begin deploying a new Geek+ Shelf-to-Person PopPick solution. Together, the existing standard system and the new PopPick system serve multiple UPS clients with different product categories in the same solution.  

The Geek+ impact

• Scaled easily to meet the demands of UPS's growing business 
• No infrastructure changes - flexibility to adjust automation layout and location within the same facility
• Minimal disruption to existing operations
• Ability to serve multiple clients with different product categories in one solution
  

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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

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