The Client

A leading third-party logistics (3PL) provider company specializing in the ecommerce and wholesale fulfillment industry with multiple warehouses across the southeast with over 10 years of experience. Their goal is to reach 85% of their consumers with standard 2-day shipping while providing industry leading customer service.

Challenge

The distributor was facing challenges meeting increased consumer demands, with growth of over 300% in 2020. Conventional methods utilizing selective pallet racks and manually operated equipment could not keep up with the volume of their growing business. They also had labor shortages using temporary staffing agencies to fill vacant positions.

Solution

BlueSkye Automation partnered with Geek+ to fully automate this company’s one million sq. ft. fulfillment center, requiring only 250,000 sq. ft. to deploy eight integrated technologies consisting of conveyors, robotic arms and four-way pallet shuttle systems. From receiving to packing, we eased their space constraints by adding 27,000 pallet positions allowing them to store more product in their existing space, reduce their labor reliance by 51% and improve their average velocity to 2,200 picks per hour leveraging four-way shuttles, floor based mobile sorting systems and our revolutionary goods-to-person picking solution.