The Business Case for Robotics in Distribution Centers

Market Forces and New Technologies Give Automated DCs the Edge

The volume of e-commerce keeps growing. Associated distribution demands were already accelerating at a rate of 25 percent before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw spikes in consumer e-commerce sales of more than 50%. Meeting e-commerce demands is a challenge — with 80 percent of distribution centers (DCs) operating manually yet drawing from a very limited labor pool.

Just how serious is the labor shortage? Industry growth outpaces that of the labor pool by a rate of six to one, making the DC a prime environment for robotics. But deployment is limited. Why is that?

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