To increase throughput and order fulfillment speed in a challenging labor market, Evergreen Enterprises implemented a fleet of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) at theirRichmond, Virginia warehouse.The wholesale home and garden décor retailer, headquartered at the same location, had relied on 90 associates to push picking carts through static storage racks to manually pick orders across two shifts.But the operation found it difficult to scale up during seasonal peak periods and maintain order accuracy and inventory control.

Pushback racking gives Denali the high-density storage it needs, providing more pallet positions and requiring fewer aisles. The new racking uses the FIFO (First In First Out) inventory system – commonly used in the food industry. A pushback storage rack can offer up to 90% more storage space than traditional selective pallet racking.

When Central Steel & Wire (CS&W), a high-quality metal products and services supplier, decided to move from the Chicago facility that had been its home for 80 years, it envisioned creating a state-of-the-art product depot and service center that used the industry’s most efficient material handling technology. It would be a major transformation for CS&W because the company was leaving behind a labor-intensive method of material handling in favor of using automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to move its wide range of metal products.