The complex business formats, a wide variety of commodities and the "fast-paced" distribution demand of the retail industry have all posed higher challenges to warehousing and logistics. The end customers of the retail industry are mostly individual consumers, and the purchase Xi is mainly a single piece and multiple products, and the purchase Xi habits are cyclical and explosive, so the logistics challenges faced by the retail industry are significantly different from those of other industries.
In the order fulfillment process in the retail industry, B2B and B2C split picking is the most time-consuming and labor-expensive part of the process. How to reduce costs and increase efficiency in this critical link is the focus of all retail enterprises.
There are two main forms of picking.
As a global leader in warehousing robots, GeekPlus has served many well-known retail companies around the world, such as Walmart, Circle K, eStore, and ASDA. Based on the experience accumulated in the retail industry for more than 8 years, Geekplus believes that the shelf-to-person solution is a better choice for the zero dismantling scenario.
The Jizhijia shelf-to-person solution uses mobile robots to move shelves to the storage area and workstations for automatic storage of goods, and realizes shelf, picking, tallying, inventory and other work.
Jizhijia shelf-to-person solution composition.
Why is the shelf-to-person solution more preferable for retail dismantling and picking?
First, read the advantages of shelf-to-person solutions in the retail industry.
The efficiency of efficient picking is 2-4 times higher than that of manual picking.
1.Rich business system picking strategies and tally strategies, such as pull picking, dynamic waves, automatic tallying, etc., continuously improve the picking hit rate.
2.Improvements in the efficiency of hardware such as robots and workstations, as well as human-machine interaction, continue to improve overall operational efficiency and the comfort and safety of personnel.
3.Picking and sowing automation: from manual sowing to automatic sowing, the picking efficiency is increased by 37%-60%.
Multi-category compatible with diversified product picking strategies.
The retail business has a wide range of products, different sizes and weights, and different requirements for vehicle sizes and loads. The shelf-to-person solution can adapt to multiple types of shelves such as shelves such as shelves, carton shelves, hanging shelves, pallet shelves, etc., and the mobile robot can support a load of 500kg-1200kg, so it supports a wide range of commodity storage, and different types of goods can be picked in one-stop at work, reducing the subsequent order merging operation and reducing the difficulty of management.
Rich categories lead to large differences in the characteristics of different categories, which require a variety of business strategies to support the storage and delivery of goods, such as warranty management products, which need to be first-in, first-out;Some product features are mutually exclusive and need to be accessed separately, etc., and the system strategy with rich shelf-to-person solutions can comprehensively consider product characteristics, such as category mutual exclusivity, according to ABC, batch, quality level, etc., to achieve efficient inventory management.
Flexible and easy to expand.
Respond steadily to major promotions and business growth.
1.Flexible production capacity, easy to cope with big promotions. The bot can enable the corresponding quantity according to the traffic volume;The number of corresponding robots and workstations can also be increased according to the changes in business volume, effectively balancing the pressure on logistics from business peaks and troughs.
2.The modular solution supports rapid expansion and layout adjustment, and flexibly responds to business changes. Mobile shelves and robots have innate flexibility, and can quickly adjust and replicate solutions in various situations such as rapid changes in business scale, layout adjustment, and picking area expansion.
3.Stable and reliable. The system availability rate is 9998%ï¼›Decoupling scheme design, a single point of failure does not affect the overall situation, and there is no need to worry about falling behind in the "picking area".
Low initial investment.
Flexibility to scale your business.
The new retail industry is facing great uncertainty about the future of business development, so companies are becoming more cautious when upgrading logistics equipment.
As a mature modular solution, the shelf-to-person solution has a low initial cost investment and can be rapidly expanded in the later stage. It not only ensures the phased investment, does not occupy funds, but also ensures the rapid change of the logistics plan after the rapid development of the business.