AutoStore, a specialist in automated storage and retrieval techniques, has unveiled what it says is “the world’s first in-store answer geared up with an AutoStore PickUpPort”.
The system allows “totally computerized supply of products to clients”, and is now operational at thansen’s brand-new retailer in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The “cutting-edge expertise” is made potential by means of AutoStore, in collaboration with its associate, Factor Logic.
Based in 1991 in Denmark, thansen focuses on delivering spare elements, tools for autos, tenting gear, and leisure tools throughout Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Germany.
The brand new retailer close to Copenhagen units the stage for a groundbreaking buyer expertise. Founder and CEO at thansen, Bent Jensen, envisions a future the place clients should purchase and decide up items at any time of the day, with out queues or fastened opening hours.
This progressive AutoStore answer, applied by Factor Logic, options 14 robots and over 18,000 bins, optimizing cupboard space for greater than 32,000 of thansen’s 200,000 gadgets.
The warehouse’s modest dimension doesn’t compromise the vary of products obtainable to clients, as gadgets are straight accessible within the retailer with out the must be ordered from a central warehouse.
Nikolaj Bjørn Eriksen, managing director of Factor Logic Denmark, says: “Shoppers are consistently pushing the boundaries for supply occasions and the diploma of flexibility, and as an organization, you can’t meet these calls for with out pondering when it comes to good, computerized options.”
The system in Rødovre signifies a paradigm shift, transferring robots straight into particular person shops, addressing the evolving expectations of recent shoppers.
This aligns completely with what Carlos Fernández, chief product officer of AutoStore, expressed earlier in reference to the product launch of the PickUpPort.
Fernández says: “The PickUpPort is a crucial step in direction of offering clients with a seamless and versatile procuring expertise.
“Not solely does it streamline the in-store pick-up course of for retailers, nevertheless it additionally enhances the general procuring expertise for patrons, providing them larger flexibility and freedom.”