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.

The customer

Kerry Logistics is a third party logistics provider, warehouse operator and the oldest international freight services company in mainland China.

Dell is a multinational computer technology company that develops, repairs and supports computers and related products and services.

The challenge

Kerry Logistics manages and operates Dell’s Xiamen spare parts warehouse. The layout of the warehouse area is very compact, and the usage rate of the storage area is very high, which increases the difficulty of manual selection. The traditional manual picking efficiency cannot meet the timeliness of Dell’s outbound storage requirements.

Our solution

• Geek+ deployed 32 P500 picking robots and over 2,000 sets of shelves
• A dense storage method was implemented to meet high storage capacity and high space utilization requirements
• The solutions allows to manage massive SKUs and the solution is highly flexible, functions such as picking, loading, and inventory can be switched at any time according to business needs

The Geek+ impact

• Single package inventory efficiency multiplied by 10 with the integration of a fast visual inventory device
• Entirely open and unmanned process, optimizing space utilization
• The number of on-site operators has been reduced, and the timeliness and accuracy of the overall operation has been improved, saving labor and management costs

The customer

Bosideng, founded in 1976, is the largest manufacturer of down jackets， operating the most advanced production equipment in China, and has over 20,000 employees. Bosideng down jackets are hugely popular in 72 countries, such as the United States, France, Italy, with more than 200 million people wearing them in the world.

The challenge

• In-store sales are growing rapidly, and manual picking has become a bottleneck
• Forklift quantity is overly large, resulting in high costs, and personnel management is difficult；
• Automation rate is low, operation error rate is high

Our solution

• Provide an innovative storage solution for the warehouse operation of the Bosideng warehouse. The seeding container is directly the shipping carton, which is transported to the station through the suspension chain; the seeding wall is of two-layer fluent type, and the back is directly connected with the conveyor line and transported to the packing station for packaging.
• Build a logistics information platform via the logistics information exchange and warning feedback between the functional modules (WMS, WCS, TMS)
• Phase 1 project area covered 5000 square meters, utilizing 116 P800 robots, 15 picking stations and 3 single point stations are deployed. The total design inventory of the whole warehouse is nearly 150000, involving more than 6000 SKUs.
• Phase 2 project area covered 20,000 square meters and utilized 200 sets of P800 robots.

The Geek+ impact

• Delivery capacity increased to 3500 pieces / hour
• Single point RF putaway, reduced site occupation
• Enabled multi batch and small batch store replenishment
• Saved over 10 units of forklifts and over 50 manual workers
• Difficulty of personnel management is reduced, and the operation accuracy is established at 100%

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%

Established in 2001, Yonghui Superstores is a Shanghai-listed (601933) company operating supermarket chains. It has nearly 900 supermarkets in 24 provinces and cities across China, covering over 6 million square meters. China’s biggest supermarket chain in 2018, it is a top 100 China Company.

The challenge

• Significant increase of single item orders
• Need to improve warehouse in and outbound order processing efficiency to meet higher volume demand
• High labor costs

Our solution

• Yonghui Superstores’Kunshan Warehouse in April 2019. Operated by Geek+, we provide a comprehensive robotics solution with full picking system and business intelligence monitoring
• The project area is about 1600 square meters, using 43 P800 robots, 186 shelves, and 80 tray holders, focusing in and out processing of food and daily consumer goods

The Geek+ impact

• Average picking efficiency multiplied by three (153 lines / hour)
• Daily shipping processing capacity is in the 5000-7000 order line, easily solving the increased demand requirements for East China region
• Picking error rate significantly decreased
• Shorter working time and more cost-efficient on-site management
• Reduction of on-site manual labor to achieve cost reduction and efficiency gains

The customer

Sinopharm Logistics is the logistics arm of Sinopharm, China’s largest pharmaceutical distributor. It is the first third-party professional pharmaceutical logistics company in China, covering warehousing services, drug sales, domestic road freight forwarding and other services.

The challenge

Sinopharm Logistics implements a single drug traceability system to ensure the accuracy of drug shipments, and has a strict multi-vendor, multi-channel and drug quality status management system, which has significantly increased the need for accurate small part picking while increasing overall productivity and lowering labor costs and worker intensity.

Our solution

• Geek+ picking system deployed in 1500sm warehouse, covering 10 workstations and 399 shelving units
• Solution customized for the pharmaceutical industry customized solution such as batch management, quality status management, drug storage compliance management, and expiration date management
• First time use of light selection technology applied to the workstations, so that the individual workstation picking efficiency can be increased to 80-120 lines/hour/person

The Geek+ impact

• Significant picking efficiency increased, from 30-40 lines/hour/person tp 80-120 lines/hour/person
• Manual picking efficiency increased by about 3 times
• Labor intensity greatly reduced
• Ultra-high picking accuracy

The customer

Jointown Pharmaceutical Group is the largest private pharmaceutical distribution company in China, distributing international and Chinese drugs and medical equipment. In 2018, the company reported revenues of over $20 billion USD (RMB87 billion yuan) and 1,287 retail points.

The challenge

Jointown Pharmaceutical Group has 127 pharmaceutical logistics centers with a storage capacity of 10 million pieces. Under new requirements the Company set an overall processing volume of 10,000 pieces/hour with 99.9% accuracy.

Our solution

• 100 picking robots deployed and integrated with existing automation, combining with the facility’s conveyor belts and forklifts to provide complete automation over multi-floor temporary storage, involving 1,736 storage space
• Picking robots transport goods directly to the platform for unmanned unloading
• User friendly interface providing multiple data gathering, reducing operation risks and increasing transportation safety

The Geek+ impact

• Saving space: smaller space needed for robot movement and storage capacity increased by 1/3 compared with conventional manual forklift operations
• Significant labor and equipment cost reduction
• ROI under two years
• An innovative model of temporary storage automation and unmanned operations, a blueprint for new pharmaceutical warehouses