Brightpick, a supplier of warehouse automation options for order success, says that The Feed, a US-based sports activities diet and kit ecommerce retailer, has begun set up of 48 Brightpick Autopicker robots that can go stay at their warehouse on the finish of March 2024.
Brightpick additionally introduced that one other set up of Brightpick Autopickers went stay in November 2023 in an EU-based Dr Max distribution heart that replenishes Dr Max pharmacies.
Dr Max is the second largest pharmacy chain in Europe with 3,000 pharmacies throughout six international locations.
Brightpick Autopicker is the one autonomous cell robotic on this planet able to selecting and consolidating orders straight within the warehouse aisles.
The robotic’s patented two-tote design permits it to retrieve storage totes (bins) from shelving and robotically decide particular person gadgets from these storage totes into an adjoining order tote.
It does this repeatedly because it strikes via the warehouse aisles till the order or batch has been absolutely picked.
Along with in-aisle robotic selecting, Brightpick Autopicker can be utilized for different duties similar to Items-to-Individual selecting, pallet selecting, inventory replenishment, dynamic slotting, order consolidation, buffering and dispatch.
Jan Zizka, CEO and co-founder of Brightpick, says: “It’s thrilling to see the sturdy traction we’re receiving for Brightpick Autopicker robots in ecommerce, prescription drugs, and e-grocery.
“The current wins with The Feed and Dr Max reveal the belief that main corporations within the US and EU have for our robots and our firm. As we full extra pilots this 12 months, we anticipate to have extra excellent news to share about Brightpick Autopicker installations.”
The Feed, based mostly close to Denver, Colorado, is a thriving ecommerce retailer for athletes. The corporate is aware of that consuming smarter could make a distinction in sports activities coaching and provides a wide selection of sports activities diet and dietary supplements, in addition to gear, to its clients.
It’s at present putting in 48 Brightpick Autopickers in its warehouse for selecting, kitting (creating ready-to-ship orders) and buffering (storing) completed orders, in addition to to replenish stock.
Within the first section of the venture, the robots will allow The Feed to satisfy 5,000 orders per day whereas eliminating its reliance on handbook labor.
The Feed needed to scale back operational and success bills and selected the Brightpick resolution due to the velocity of deployment and skill to scale with the corporate’s sturdy development trajectory.
In addition they needed, and obtained, an automatic resolution that didn’t require extra energy modifications of their warehouse and integrates effectively with its current in-house software program programs.
Matt Johnson, founding father of The Feed, says: “The Feed’s e-commerce platform is a performance-minded market for athletes.
“We’ve got scaled considerably over the previous few years and are transferring into a brand new, bigger warehouse. Brightpick Autopickers are a strong manner for us to maintain up with our excessive demand now and sooner or later.”
Amongst different issues, Dr Max operates three fashionable pharmaceutical distribution facilities within the Czech Republic, and the one in Prague is now geared up with eight Brightpick Autopicker robots.
The robots are selecting as much as 7,000 gadgets per day and consolidating orders to often replenish Dr Max pharmacies and hospitals within the nation.
Brightpick Autopickers assist make sure the dependable provide of medicines which are sometimes very important for sustaining the well being and lifetime of Dr Max clients.
Distributors of prescription drugs usually face stringent regulatory necessities. To satisfy these necessities, the Brightpick resolution can simply decide and decide pharmaceutical gadgets with the earliest expiration date, and shortly cease selecting from any batch (for instance whether it is discovered to be faulty).
Brightpick Autopicker can even reliably decide ambient and chilled groceries, packaged items, cosmetics, electronics, medical gadgets, polybagged attire and extra.
The Brightpick resolution takes simply weeks to deploy and permits corporations to scale back their selecting labor by 98 % and minimize selecting prices by half.