Ariat cuts walking 82%, doubles productivity
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266 %Increase in productivity
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4Month deployment
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110UPH
Challenge
- Scalability: ISN experienced rapid business growth, prompting a tenfold expansion of its distribution centers to over 1 million square feet.
- Improve productivity: the company saw a drop in productivity due to long travel times in the larger warehouses. Needed to maintain “pick and ship same day” service while mitigating labor shortages and inefficiencies.
- Changes in customer buying behavior: surge in small package shipments (from 50% to 80% of orders) increased pressure on throughput.
Solution
- Fast integration and deployment: Infios WM (Warehouse Management) integrated with 49 Locus Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) across 3 sites for same-day go live with no operational downtime.
- Increased efficiency: picking paths reduced travel time for the robots, while associates focus on picking to improve accuracy.
- Stabilized workforce: training time is reduced, and AMRs are augmenting the work of associates--not replacing them.
- Increased associate wages: cost savings from integrating AMRs allows ISN to reinvest in its workforce.
“We were picking the same day and doing the same volume. We didn’t have to take a break to deploy and implement.”
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