The Project ChallengeWith 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.Our SolutionAfter initially starting with 27 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. The successful implementation equipped UPS Supply Chain Solutions® and Allbirds with the agility and scalability needed to navigate changes in channel shifts, consumer expectations, seasonality and product categories. By leveraging mobile robotic solutions, UPS Supply Chain Solutions® and Alllbirds have achieved higher warehouse productivity and efficiency with faster and more accurate order fulfillment operations.

The Project ChallengeWith the increased demand in ecommerce and need for facility optimization at their new 1 million sq. ft. distribution hub, Ariat searched for ways to automate their warehouse throughput, productivity, and reduce physical strain for associates.Our SolutionGeek+ worked together with its strategic partner, Körber Supply Chain Solutions, to deploy 88 shelf-to-person picking robots and 2,000 racks in Ariat's new distribution hub. After their initial order, Ariat expanded the solution with an additional 30 picking robots. Since then, Ariat has experienced a significant increase in picking efficiency and warehouse productivity.

Supply Chain leaders were looking for a cost-effective solution to build a system that sorts customer prescription orders to hundreds of stores. The client successfully implemented a dynamic sortation solution to service 447 stores while improving sortation accuracy for the 3-level system design allowed the company to meet their increased production requirements, while remaining within the existing footprint. tSort ensures high throughput per square foot with low capital investment relative to traditional sortation systems.

In the case of Wesfarmers retail division Kmart, the continued growth in their business necessitated evaluating new technologies to pilot and implement in their New Zealand D&F hub. Seeking a best-in-class automation solution and through a detailed RFP process, Kmart ultimately selected Tompkins Robotics’ tSort system. This tSort system and program was implemented remotely across multiple time zones including the USA, Australia, New Zealand, and India. This was achieved through the challenges of a global pandemic with strong collaboration and teamwork.

Project Overview: Provided alternative designs for proposed new 2.1M sq. ft. omni-channel warehouse in the central US market. Key Project Elements: SKU base of 5K items – mixture of case pick and unit pick processing. Volume split was 95% retail and 5% e-com. Design automation include case pick modules (pallet flow), auto de-palletization robots, shuttle system for e-com inventory storage (residuals) and outbound retail carton buffering, put walls, routing shoe sorter, shipping shoe sorter (150 cases/min), high density pallet storage (mole system), reach truck and turret truck AGVs, and WCS systems integration. Storage capacity of 200K+ pallets in a combination of floor storage

Coop, a Switzerland-based retail and wholesale grocery business, chose to centralize three regional DCs, three freezer DCs, and three large bakeries into a single multi-building. Splitex robots depalletize goods from the high-bay and send them to a shuttle warehouse as a picking buffer. From there, mixed case orders are built by AutoStax palletizing robots in an optimized and store-friendly manner on roll cages.

When a financial company reached out to Jeff Andrews, President of Hammerhead Material Handling, for a new archival storage project that would be warehoused in California’s Inland Empire he knew that finding the right storage system could pose a challenge. "The geographic location is considered a very high seismic area and paper is flammable, so we needed to find a solution that would also meet fire codes.” TubeRack, made by Hannibal Industries, would work.

Steele Solutions recently completed the design and installation of multiple mezzanines and elevated work platforms in three new, greenfield facilities built by one of North America’s largest big box omni-channel retailer. The new distribution centers located in Logan, New Jersey; Chicago, Illinois; and Riverside, California feature advanced conveyor and sortation systems running throughout the buildings. The retailer insisted on using the ResinDek LD flooring with the Gray Diamond Seal 2 finish throughout each distribution center, because of its ergonomic benefits to its workforce.

City Furniture was tasked with figuring out how to create additional space for both employee training and inventory storage at their 940,000-square-foot facility, headquartered in Tamarac, Florida. City Furniture worked with Steel Storage Inc. (USSI) to add two new mezzanines. In addition to gaining a total of 19,000 additional square feet inside City Furniture’s existing warehouse space, achieving a UL fire rated assembly for the occupied training mezzanine, and adding three levels of extra storage for clearance products, City Furniture noted that using ResinDek flooring system cut down on the overall installation time.

Legacy Platform Co-Founder’s Bill Jones and John Sloan have been specifying ResinDek flooring panels from Cornerstone Special Wood Products for over 10 years. So, when a general contractor asked Bill to recommend an electrostatic dissipative (ESD) flooring product for a mezzanine being constructed in an e-commerce fulfillment center in northern Ohio, Jones knew precisely where to turn. Given the requirements of the project, Cornerstone’s engineering team specified ResinDek LD panels with Gray Diamond Seal® 2 ESD coating. ResinDek LD is a cost-effective flooring solution that supports dynamic and static pallet jack loads up to 2,000 pounds.