Case Studies
Geekplus AMRs Revolutionize Bolloré Logistics’s Australian Luxury E-commerce Operations
The Customer
- Bolloré Logistics is a global leader in international transport and logistics, offering multimodal transport, customs and regulatory compliance, logistics, global supply chain, and industrial projects.
- 20,600 employees worldwide work at 609 offices in 107 countries with headquarters in Puteaux, France
- Geekplus AMRs solution, first in the Australian 3PL scene, allows Bolloré Logistics to offer state-of-the-art logistics services to their luxury retail clients.
The Challenge
- Bolloré Logistics aimed to meet the changing demand and order fulfillment in the logistics segment.
- To adhere to the elevated aesthetic standards of the luxury retail sector
Our Solution
- Geekplus implemented Shelf-to-Person solutions with 28 picking robots in just three months for fast, accurate picking.
- Integrated all AMRs into already functioning warehouse.
- Facilitates the efficient delivery of luxury goods for various brands via multiple e-commerce platforms and retail outlets across Australia and New Zealand.
The Geekplus impact
- The solution maximized storage density while leaving space for employees to pack parcels.
- Achieved the speed of more than 360 picks per hour per pick station.
- Increased storage density and raised order fulfilment efficiency to 8,000 orders per day.
- Flexible and scalable solutions empower Bolloré Logistics to swiftly respond to evolving market dynamics.
Geekplus Partners with Körber to Enhance S&S Activewear's Warehouse Operations
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
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Improved picking efficiency, accuracy and throughput
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S&S Activewear managed up to 16,000 orders daily during peak times
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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
Officeworks Transforms Supply Chain with Geek+'s Solar-powered Robot Fleet.
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
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Increased bulk storage capacity
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Improved stock fulfillment
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Maximized delivery operations
Newegg Enhances Warehouse Efficiency with Geekplus Robotics
About Customer
Newegg Commerce, Inc., founded in 2001 and based in the City of Industry, Calif., near Los Angeles, is a leading global online retailer for PC hardware, consumer electronics, gaming peripherals, home appliances, automotive and lifestyle technology. Newegg also serves businesses’ e-commerce needs with marketing, supply chain, and technical solutions in a single platform.
The Challenge
Newegg was looking to address two main challenges with its order fulfillment operations:
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ways in which it could improve safety for its associates by reducing physically demanding tasks and eliminating the need to walk long distances to fulfil orders.
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how the company could enhance its fulfillment operations with faster and more accurate order processing.
Our Solution
The Geekplus Shelf-to-Person picking solution augmented order fulfillment operations for Newegg's 240,000 sq. ft. warehouse in Onatrio, California. The solution equipped Newegg with the ability to seamlessly handle more than 20,000 SKUs, improved associate safety and well-being, and strengthened overall picking productivity and accuracy. Newegg has also realized cost savings and improved storage utilization.
The Geekplus impact
- Increased picking efficiency
- Reduced walking distances for associates
- Faster and easier training process for associates
- Implementation in 6 weeks
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Geek+ Empowers UPS with Flexible Solutions
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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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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153 AMRs in 15,000 square meters warehouse, German manufacturing leader OEG in 3 months to achieve the transformation
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
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
Geek+ Helps ALPEN, Japanese Sporting Goods Retailer, Boost Picking Efficiency by 4 Times with Three Repurchases in Four Years
The customer
Started in 1972, ALPEN has become one of the major sports goods retailers in Japan through its integrated business model of production and sales. At present, ALPEN has 8 private brands such as TIGORA and IGNIO in Japan, and represents world famous sports brands such as NIKE and adidas, with nearly 400 chain stores.
The challenge
- Difficult to cope with the huge number of SKUs
- Insufficient workforce
- Fragmentation of orders
Our solution
P800
Customer value
- 4X improvement in shipment picking efficiency
- 50% reduction in ALPEN order fulfillment time
- Achieved multiple warehouse expansions
- Achieve rapid sales growth
- Develop sales strategies that peers can't
- Improve customer shopping experience and satisfaction
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
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