Mubasher: The global tech company AutoStore has offered a flexible and high-density storage solution to meet the growing demands on retailers to change and stock inventory at a quick pace while delivering goods to customers as quickly as possible, either within same-day or several hours timeframes, BusinessWire reported on Monday.
AutoStore will transform the retail industry through its existing award-winning robotic cube-based and automated storage and retrieval system.
Today’s consumers dream of more options and are willing to alternate from a certain brand for the sake of better values and services. Building on this, same-day delivery or immediate local-store pick-up became ‘expectations’ and are no longer ‘perks’. Accordingly, retailers should secure a presence across multiple channels, including stores, online, or social networking and mobile.
Commenting on this, the CEO and president of AutoStore, Karl Johan Lier, said, "AutoStore delivers the flexibility and scalability needed for streamlining automated fulfilment of online orders, which is absolutely critical to accommodate increasingly higher numbers of SKUs, and seasonal spikes in ordering."
"It gives retailers the flexibility to make more targeted decisions about where they believe automated micro-fulfilment will be most beneficial," Lier added.
In addition, AutoStore provides a solution for the future of logistics and warehousing with micro-fulfilment at the retail store level, offering the densest product/inventory storage solution in existence, where up to 15,000 SKUs can be stored within 604 square metres.
With its modular design, the system suits a range of environments, from back-of-house of a grocery retailer to retail spaces for consumer products.
"Each robot has two sets of wheels that enable it to move along perpendicular axes, and this makes it possible for all robots to reach any position, and any crate on the grid independently – providing near 100% system availability," BusinessWire added.
Through AutoStore, online orders can be easily collected in less than ten minutes, to be then confirmed in the system for customers to grab at their preferred time.
