Geek+ Equips UPS with Faster E-Commerce Order Fulfillment
Customer Challenges
The Geek+ Solution
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.
💡 After initially starting with 27 P-800 shelf-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.
Geek+ Impact
97% increase in peak unit throughput YOY
400% increase in picked units per hour YOY
Experienced back-to-back record days during Peak
Shortened training time from 1 week to 2 hours
Flexibility to share labor between multiple operations
Multi-lingual system allows for greater employee inclusion
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Automation has really helped us to be more flexible in being able to adapt to customers’ ever changing order profiles and growth. We went into Cyber Monday clean and received tons of praise from our customers.
My favorite part about the automation is that it’s available in multiple languages, offering us a unique opportunity for inclusion with our employees who don’t speak English. When you hit the warehouse floor, you can feel the excitement. People are very enthusiastic about having a chance to be a part of changing the way that we do logistics.
About
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.