DC Velocity - December 2017

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Looking ahead to 2018, Dematic will continue to expand capabilities and solution sets with a focus on designing modular, scalable and flexible intra-logistics systems for your operations. Here are some examples of how Dematic order fulfillment and automated material handing systems can help your company gain efficiencies, expand functionality, improve performance and thrive in this era of acceleration and disruption.

Operational Excellence — As a system integrator and solution provider, our approach is centered on achieving operational excellence for each Dematic customer, in both production and distribution environments. It is all about engineering solutions that respond to your operational issues: shortage of labor and space, growth of slow moving inventory, fluctuations in order volume, processing time, and effectively accommodating multiple distribution channels to market.

Omni-channel — Dematic continues to support omni-channel strategies. For example, the Dematic Goods-to-Person Piece Pick Solution can process orders accurately/ efficiently for multiple channels while sharing the same inventory and labor pool, thus reducing your company’s order fulfillment costs.

Warehouse Execution System (WES) — In the era of the industrial internet of things, Dematic iQ WES software can optimize and synchronize workflows more effectively. For example, the Dematic iQ WES receives extensive real time data about the current state of all the processes in the warehouse. Software optimization algorithms continuously assess the orders to be filled, the resources available, and the inventory to dynamically adjust workflows. The results: you can drop in orders at the last minute, reduce fulfillment time, and extend order cut off time.

Robotic Picking — Dematic robotic solutions can automate the most labor intensive, repetitive tasks such as piece picking. “Goods-to-robot” piece picking systems are available today for a specific range of product types, dimensions, weights, and sizes.

Like “goods-to-person” picking, the SKU totes are delivered to the robot for piece picking. The robot picks and places items to an order container. This solution reduces labor costs, picks faster, and can scale up for peak season as the robots operate on multiple shifts and weekends, omitting the need for temporary staff.

As always, we are dedicated to improving the effectiveness of your receiving-to-shipping operation. We welcome the opportunity to design, build and implement an automated material handling solution for your new or existing operation.