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

Ariat International, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of innovative performance equestrian footwear, apparel and belts. Featuring a patented technology designed to deliver stability, durability and comfort, Ariat pioneered the application of advanced athletic shoe technology into English riding boots and authentic Western boots, Ariat products are sold in a network of retail outlets throughout the world. 

About Partner

Supply Chains are growing more complex by the day. Körber Supply Chain uniquely provides a broad range of proven, end-to-end supply chain solutions fitting any business size, strategy or appetite for growth. Capable of delivering not just software, but automation, voice, robotics, and materials handling - plus the expertise to tie it all together. We are a global partner not just for today, but also as the needs of supply chains continue to evolve. 

The Challenge 

• Labor Shortages created by the rise in demand 
• Needing to optimize the warehouse and increase throughput
• Needing to reduce physical strain for associates

Our Solution

Geek+ worked collaboratively with Körber Supply Chain to optimize throughput and increase storage capacity in Ariat's 1 million sq. ft warehouse operations. Integrating with K. Motion Warehouse Advantage (WMS), 88 Geek+ picking robots and 2,000 racks helped Ariat to achieve greater operational speed and end-customer experience. After its initial order, Ariat expanded the solution with an additional 30 picking robots.                                                          

The Geek+ impact

• Improved picking efficiency, accuracy and throughput
• Decreased walking distance by 82% - from 40,000 steps a day to 7,000 steps a day
• Increased associates' productivity by 100%
• Faster and easier training process for associates
• Moral boosting - staff see automation as a way to support them, instead of replacing them 

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

New customer expectations for e-commerce – higher volumes of orders and returns, same- and next-day delivery, and nearly perfect accuracy – have brought

new challenges for retailers and a need to address logistics bottlenecks. With 1045 stores in 25 European countries, Decathlon requires a highly flexible and fast supply chain and has turned to Geek+’s goods-to-person solutions to optimize its B2C logistics.

Our Solution

Geek+ tailor-made new robotics solutions for three distribution centers located in Castelnau, France,

Łódź, Poland, and Campania, Italy, use hundreds of P-series picking robots. Unlike traditional infrastructure, the AMR systems allow for flexible maintenance and modification without any interruption of service.

The Geek+ impact

• Expansion of the online customer base across EU

• Increase storage capacity by up to 30%

• Increase picking efficiency: 250 order lines per hour per station

• Increase putaway efficiency: 339 articles per hour per station

• 3x efficiency vs. manual operations

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

About Customer

Siemens Switchgear is a world-leading manufacturer of switchgear equipment.

The Challenge

• Low warehouse storage efficiency cannot meet regular storage demands
• Low picking efficiency and accuracy
• Labor-intensive operations in in the warehouse
• Inefficient quality inspection process
• Manual handling of heavy materials

Our Solution

• Smart Factory solution of integrated logistics robots
• Four-way shuttles
• P800 Goods-to-Person robots
• C200S Bin-to-Person robots
• heavy-load handling robot M1000s

The Geek+ impact

• 2-3 x improved storage capacity
• 99.99% accurate operations
• 2.5 x storing efficiency 
• Outbound collection process improved by 2.15 x
• 30% less manual labor
• More visibility across the production flow through integrated solutions

The customer

Konica Minolta is a Japanese multinational technology company headquartered in Tokyo, with offices in 49 countries worldwide. The company manufactures business and industrial imaging products, including copiers, laser printers, multi-functional peripherals (MFPs) and digital print systems for the production printing market.

The challenge

• Konica was looking for an AMR solution to achieve higher accuracy of materials handling in its warehouse and replace its magnetic stripe AGVs which offer little flexibility, are subject to low operating efficiency, and lead to high maintenance costs.
• Production line consists of more than 30,000 different materials, it is costly to manage the inventory and accuracy.
• High frequency of material delivery, low efficiency of manual material delivery, poor timeliness, and high labor-intensity.

Our solution

• 10 P800 robots in the warehouse and make use of Geek+ iWMS , for precise management of materials
• 3 M100 robots featuring SLAM navigation at the production line to deliver the materials from warehouse to production line
• Geek+ Moving System (GMS) receives task from iWMS and deliver the materials to production line automatically.
  
  

The Geek+ impact

• Improved inventory accuracy
• Stock-taking frequency reduced by 92%
• Material delivery efficiency increased by 31~42%
• Storage area saved by more than 32%
• Reduced labor intensity

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