Overview
This paper reviews popular approaches to reducing travel (slotting, process engineering, robotics, etc.) in distribution center operations. Secondly, the paper discusses how AI-based optimization is providing distributors with double and triple-digit productivity gains at a fraction of the cost of robotic or automation systems.
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Table of Contents
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- DC Labor Shortages And The Productivity Challenge
- Travel is the Lynchpin
- Tried and True Travel Reduction Strategies
- Slotting
- Carousels
- AS/RS Systems
- “Robotic” Picking Systems
- Autonomous Mobile Robots
- Kiva’s Lead
- Goods-to-Person AMRs
- Autonomous Picking Carts
- Conveyance Robots
- Autonomous Lift Trucks
- Robots-to-Goods AMRs
- The Advantages of AMRs
- ROI Considerations
- A Software Approach To Reducing Travel: AI-Based Optimization
- Intelligent Batching
- Path Optimization
- Using AI-Based Optimization With Robots
- Results
- Eliminating Travel Without Automation
Eliminating DC Travel With Artificial Intelligence
This paper reviews popular approaches to reducing travel (slotting, process engineering, robotics, etc.) in distribution center operations. Secondly, the paper discusses how AI-based optimization is providing distributors with double and triple-digit productivity gains at a fraction of the cost of robotic or automation systems.
Fill out the form below to get the white paper.
Table of Contents
- DC Labor Shortages And The Productivity Challenge
- Travel is the Lynchpin
- Tried and True Travel Reduction Strategies
- Slotting
- Carousels
- AS/RS Systems
- “Robotic” Picking Systems
- Autonomous Mobile Robots
- Kiva’s Lead
- Goods-to-Person AMRs
- Autonomous Picking Carts
- Conveyance Robots
- Autonomous Lift Trucks
- Robots-to-Goods AMRs
- The Advantages of AMRs
- ROI Considerations
- A Software Approach To Reducing Travel: AI-Based Optimization
- Intelligent Batching
- Path Optimization
- Using AI-Based Optimization With Robots
- Results
- Eliminating Travel Without Automation
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How does AI-based travel optimization work?
Watch our brief overview to learn how Lucas applies multiple AI-based algorithms to all available orders in the system to create optimized batches and pick paths for associates.