GEODIS

The 3PL’s new facility in Asheville, Ohio, is a showcase for next-generation technologies, including robotics and automated packaging.

Major 3PL nearly doubles case picking throughput at site in Indiana by deploying Vecna's pallet jack AMRs and orchestrating the mobile robots with human pickers via Vecna's software.

GEODIS has currently deployed Locus AMRs at 14 sites around the world, serving a wide range of retail and consumer brands, including warehouses in the U.S and Europe. The agreement will expand that footprint significantly as new sites are deployed.

New collaboration will deploy more than $80 million in advanced automation into two omnichannel fulfillment centers on behalf of a leading retailer, with phase one of the implementation expected to be complete in September of next year. The combined fulfillment centers are expected to move over 270,000 units per day across its total of more than 850,000 square feet of operations.

Modern sat down with Rob Thyen to discuss 3PLs and Piece Picking Robotics.

With e-commerce fulfillment as a catalyst, both the third-party logistics and cold storage warehousing market in North America continue to post healthy gains.

The system, to support fulfillment for a leading clothing retailer, is expected to deliver the highest throughput documented for an AutoStore system globally

GEODIS to partner with AHS to integrate the Exotec Skypod system into GEODIS’ automated facility that will go live in Nashville, Tenn., in Q1 of 2022.

Once thought of as reliant on fixed guidance infrastructure and aimed at moving larger loads across facilities, the automatic guided vehicle evolved. AGVs today can move loads large and small, and some can reliably lift multiple levels high. Some now even use natural feature navigation and collaborate more closely with people.

The project for a retailer will include a unique combination of multiple KNAPP technologies, with project aims that include reducing the challenge of hard-to-find labor, while simultaneously delivering a solution that is flexible, scalable and minimizes the variable cost per order

GEODIS in Americas, a top 3PL in the U.S., continued to expand on e-logistics solutions for customers with the announcement of marketplace integrations with Shopify and Amazon Drop Shipping

Brands estimate that ecommerce in 2020 will represent nearly half of their sales compared to a third before COVID-19

Mobile collaborative robots have increased productivity and throughput at GEODIS’ Indianapolis e-fulfillment center.

The global 3PL turned to mobile collaborative robots to rev up its e-commerce fulfillment operations. One measurable result: a 2x improvement in productivity.

You can let yourself get caught up in this whirlpool, or you can take a step back, think through what your operation needs to keep pace with today’s demands, and then take action to control what you can control.