Over the last few years, online shopping has gained huge momentum across the world. The e-commerce players allure the customers with huge slashed prices and prompt and swift deliveries. The customers get to choose if they want next-day delivery or express delivery within hours or even a store-pickup. The big sale days that the e-commerce giants feature also puts a lot of pressure on the warehouses to handle the huge volume of orders and offer impeccable product deliveries. Such customer preferences are hard to be met by the traditional warehouses where the processes are predominantly unorganized and the arrangements are rigid.
Robotic warehouses handle such customer preferences with ease. From docking to order fulfillment, the automated warehouses efficiently optimize the warehouse processes and track the statuses of all the processes in real time. Goods-to-man automation is the process where the Autonomous Mobile Robots in a warehouse bring the MSU (Mobile Storage Units) to the operator for order fulfillment. GreyOrange does Goods-to-man automation in a warehouse with their Butler robots. Butler Robots along with MSUs, SKUs (Stock Keeping Units), PPS (Pick Put Stations) and charging stations automate order fulfillment end-to-end. The Butlers and the entire system is collaborated and managed by GreyMatter, the intelligent, decision-driven Warehouse Execution Software (WES) from GreyOrange.
You should you consider GreyOrange Goods-to-man automation for your warehouse
An automated warehouse with an intelligent WES results in a much efficient storage space utilization. The Autonomous Mobile Robots (Butlers) in a warehouse ensure denser storage with minimal aisle space.
The demand patterns are captured in real time and warehouse storage is customized accordingly. For example, when a seasonal surge is found for a particular product, it is placed close to the operator for easy retrieval without disturbing the other MSUs.
The Autonomous Mobile Robots in a warehouse can independently move across the various floors of the warehouse.
The Butlers come in two variants – M and XL based on their payload capacity and can carry payloads as high as 1600 kgs. They are 360 degrees rotatable and are built with AI, Sensor and complex Vision Technology and Machine Learning.
The MSUs can handle all types of Stock Keeping Units (SKU) like boxes, sacks, fragile items, apparel hangers, drums and poly bags and the MSUs can be customized.
When an order arrives, the Butlers find the optimal way to reach the MSUs with the order items and coordinate with other Butlers robots in operation and bring them safely to the operator in the Pick/Put Station (PPS). The operator then picks the item from the MSUs and puts them in the customer tote.
With the Butler range of robots, the warehouse can process order fulfillment 24 * 7. At any point of time, 48 orders can be seamlessly fulfilled.
If you are looking to automate the order fulfillment process of your warehouse, do get in touch with us and we shall be happy to help you. While our Butler range of products do Goods to man Automation for your warehouse, the Butler PickPal can help you automate the picking process too! Call us today to know more about our ingenious product range.
