CALGARY, Alberta: Attabotics, a leader in raising the efficiency, productivity, and capacity of retail fulfillment operations through the fusion of better technology and innovative process, today adds AI-orchestrated fulfillment to its technology line-up.

FulfillAI is a newly developed and field-tested software algorithm that offers a novel approach to automated fulfillment for retailers with in-store and wholesale distribution challenges seeking faster fulfillment.

Automation providers typically tackle the challenge of faster fulfillment by raising machine rates. But since machines are often running near capacity, this doesn’t allow for much improvement. Rather, it puts constraints on the business by maxing out machine capacity and putting greater strain on associated labor, equipment, and resources.

But FulfillAI is changing that dynamic by reimagining the automated retail distribution process – and reconfiguring it in ways that dramatically increase efficiencies across retail warehouses.

FulfillAI uses a many-to-many picking process versus the one-to-one picking method used by most automation providers today. Many-to-many picking allows warehouse workers to move beyond picking one SKU for one order at a time, to filling multiple lines for multiple orders with multiple units of multiple SKUs in a single machine presentation.

This lowers machine rates – and in doing so, triggers an across-the-board bump in capacity for all associated fulfillment functions. Suddenly, fulfillment systems have the capacity to take on new growth, warehouse workers are much more productive, it takes fewer robots to get the same work done, and fulfillment operations consume fewer resources to do the same work as before.

The level of processing sophistication that FulfillAI brings to smaller operations is typically reserved for enterprise-level fulfillment systems. But by using artificial intelligence, Attabotics is able to democratize that sophistication for smaller operations at a fraction of the cost of enterprise operations.

“Field testing over the past year has yielded a 5.4x increase in picking throughput over manual picking with an 80% drop in labor dependency and a bump in accuracy to 99.9%,” says Scott Gravelle, CEO of Attabotics. “What’s more, FulfillAI has raised the capacity of our test client’s fulfillment operation such that the company was able to more than double the size of its business without scaling its fulfillment technology in any way.”

“We're definitely more confident in the go-forward strategy of our organization and we've been able to grow with the Attabotics system," says Amer Jomaa, CEO of Modern Beauty. “We acquired a few organizations over the last two years and are able to keep up with the demand and the growth, while maintaining the exact same staff with twice the volume."

About Attabotics

The Attabotics fulfillment system offers the highest solution density in the market today. A reinvention and merger of many proven technologies, the system features:

• An automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) that dramatically reduces warehouse storage footprints by up to 85% and is built around a cubic storage concept that stores inventory in vertical columns up to 8 meters high.
• Robots that travel in 3-dimensions and can access bins from all four sides as they ascend or descend through ASRS vertical columns and charge on-the-go.
• A built-in sortation system within the ASRS that also enables sorting, sequencing, and buffering of goods on route to picking, packing, or shipping.
• Inventory replenishment stations.
• Goods-to-person (GTP) fulfillment stations.
• Put-to-light fulfillment technology that’s integrates directly with the ASRS and GTPs.
• Advanced fulfillment software.
• Large SKU-friendly bins with a weight capacity up to 100 lbs.

Attabotics focuses on empowering its clients with the highest number of units shipped per day at the lowest cost and the highest accuracy. That’s why with an Attabotics solution there are no non-productive moves for robots and no digging or pre-sorting required to access any item in the system in 90 seconds or less.

Attabotics manufactures all of its products in-house and holds more than 150 patents on its technology.

About Modern Beauty

Modern Beauty is one of the leading beauty supply distributors in Canada, selling sell hair care products across the country to salons, spas, and barbershops. They currently have 65 store locations and 125 business consultants that service the beauty industry. They service their customers, stores, and distributors through two warehouses, one in Calgary, Alberta and one in Mississauga, Ontario.

Fonte: Business Wire