The most comprehensive book to successfully mechanize, automate, and robotize your warehouse and the impacts on the building. A guide to existing sorting, storage, handling, picking and packaging technologies based on massive data and flow processing.
The mechanisation, automation and robotisation of logistics centres has been the subject of debate for several decades now between the pros and cons. The "pros" refer to the ability of these systems to help operators perform demanding and repetitive tasks, handle large flows and reduce logistics costs.
The "cons" are the high investment costs of these systems, their sometimes complex management, costly maintenance and a lack of flexibility in the face of constantly changing mix references and flow typology.
But the advent of "Omnicanal" distribution and the volumetric peaks of eCommerce (11-11, Cyberweek, Black-Friday...) combined with advances in technology have considerably changed the terms of the debate. It is no longer a question of being "for" or "against". It is a question of rethinking logistics processes and organisations in depth in order to meet the growing demands of the consumer in the best conditions of service and cost; and in doing so, identifying at which level of the process and to what end technology can be an effective lever.
Yann de FERAUDY
President of the ASLOG
In order to provide a satisfactory "service" response to this new form of "centralized customer" type distribution, the logistics plans have been reviewed to enable the same stock to serve the different sales channels, to prepare orders of different sizes simultaneously (pallet, full-package and multi-package) and to integrate heterogeneous products in the same order.
We will see throughout this book that mechanization, automated and robotic systems provide new answers and solutions to logistics operators and are of great help in satisfying the company's stakeholders*.
This is why our management committee was keen to associate ASLOG with EOL, GS1 France and EVOLIS in the writing and publication of this book, which should enable everyone to find avenues for reflection on the current and future problems of our companies, whose warehouses, due to their complexity and processes, are increasingly becoming "logistics factories" or "fulfillment factories".
Laurent SABATUCCI
Founder and President of EOL
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