Flexible Warehouse Automation: The Future of Order Fulfillment

Success in the e-commerce age hinges on being able to automate and execute fulfillment in a flexible manner.

With more single-line orders and many more “each” picks to process, as well as tight delivery windows to hit and a challenging labor market, further automation stands out as the only way to meet customer demands while controlling costs.

However, automation needs to be flexible to respond to changes in customer demand, channel or market strategies, or simply to keep up with the pace of change forced by rapid business growth.

This paper takes a look at the building blocks of flexible automation and explains how systems that embody mobility, modularity, collaboration, and connectivity, and driven by intelligent software are the systems that are going to be most adaptable to change.