In warehousing operations for footwear companies, the two most important considerations are high storage density and high efficiency. Sky Storage & Ground Pick, Geek+'s one-stop four-way shuttle solution, provides a solution for both.
High density: At the same shelf height, the storage density is 60% higher than that of traditional very narrow aisle (VNA) shelves
High efficiency: Picking efficiency is 2-3 times that of manual efficiency; with full-pallet picking, the more orders there are, the higher the picking efficiency
High flexibility: It can flexibly match fluctuating production capacity and orders by rapidly adding or removing robots
Saving labor costs: Automatic shelf placement, automatic replenishment, and automated goods-to-person picking allows employees to focus on value-added tasks
Low picking efficiency: Manual picking selects one pair at a time with one hand, leading to low efficiency
Replenishment timeliness: Stores have limited storage capacity, frequent replenishment, and new updates, and have high requirements for timeliness
Flexibility requirements: When footwear seasons change or special promotions are done, demand fluctuates greatly, so flexibility is a must
Traditional solutions have problems such as low picking efficiency, low storage density, difficult expansion, and insufficient flexibility, meaning they cannot meet customers’ needs.
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Picking on ordinary heavy-duty shelf |
Picking on VNA heavy-duty racks |
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Risk |
Shelving and picking are cross-operated, with high safety risks |
The VNA channel is narrow, the forklift operation requires high certifications, and there are operational risks |
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Capacity |
Wide forklift aisle, single-depth storage, low storage density |
The storage density of the whole pallet is higher, and the storage density of the whole box is lower |
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Labor |
There is a lot of labor input in each step, and professional forklift workers are required |
High labor requirements, VNA forklift operators with professional certificates are required, and it is difficult to recruit |
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Efficiency |
The whole pallet and piece picking are operated at the same time, which affects each other and reduces the efficiency; Piece picking requires walking long distances, and the picking efficiency is low |
The equipment operation requires high precision, the operation takes a long time, and the efficiency is low. |
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Flexibility |
It is difficult to rapidly expand the storage capacity, and the upper limit of picking capacity is low, making it difficult to increase |
VNA layout has very specific on-site requirements, high requirements, complicated construction and a long implementation period |
01 Putaway: Allocate place, automatic putaway.
02 Storage: Multi-type, multi-strategy storage.
03 Order dispatch: Automatic picking task allocation.
04 Location hit: Multi-strategy smart location hit.
05 Goods-to-Person (G2P) Picking: Smart picking indications and dispatch to picking wall.
06 Shelf return: Multi-strategy intelligent shelf returns.
Restocking process
01 Replenishment tasks issued by the system
02 Four-way shuttle system automatic outbound
03 Automatic replenishment of the whole pallet to the G2P area
04 Necessary replenishment picking
05 Unfinished pallets are returned to the four-way shuttle area for storage
06 Manual replenishment to the goods-to-person area
Geek+ has over 6 years’ practical experience in the apparel industry, is trusted by many industry leaders, and has successfully achieved global expansion through project replication. Its full range of robots can be adopted into a variety of integrated schemes, covering various scenarios in the apparel industry.
Through continuous activity in the apparel industry, Geek+ is accumulating greater understanding and field experience to empower even more apparel customers to achieve intelligent upgrading and transformation.