Connecting Islands Of Automation for Rapid Order Fulfillment Success

Deployment of automated storage & retrieval (AS/RS) solutions has been delivering impressive improvements in labor or space savings within facilities for decades.

Manufacturing and distribution center (DC) operations now face struggles around customer service expectations such as being able to process and ship item-level orders for next-day delivery and many find themselves with several islands of automation, each providing high efficiencies to the intended area, but these disconnected islands make it difficult to meet bigger order fulfillment challenges.

Connecting these existing islands of automation is the key to an efficient customer service process. Through customer examples, this white paper will examine how individual islands of automated solutions function more efficiently within a connected fulfillment process.