Managing inventory is tougher than ever. Today’s volatile marketplace is throwing a host of new challenges at companies large and small. How can they respond quickly and efficiently when viral buying trends, sparked by social media, turn a formerly sleepy product into a hot item? Or when seasonal demands introduce spikes in purchasing patterns? Or when changing market conditions cause customers to suddenly modify their ordering profiles? Or when larger economic trends translate into broad based changes in a distribution center’s channel mix?

For all of these challenges, legacy automation systems with inflexible footprints are no longer adequate. But help is at hand. A new generation of robots is providing the flexibility, speed and accuracy that today’s marketplace demands.

Just what is it about robotics that makes them perform so well?”

Readers will get answers to the following questions:

• Scalability: How do robotics allow companies to “right size” their next automation installation, even if they lack knowledge about future revenue trends?

• Flexibility: How is it possible to easily adjust the size of a robotics installation by adding or deleting operational modules as revenues rise or fall in the years ahead?

• Reactivity: How does the sophisticated processing of robotics allow companies to meet customer commitments for quick delivery, while easily handling seasonal demand spikes, viral buying trends, as well as unanticipated changes in customer buying profiles?

• Portability: How does the modular nature of robotics systems facilitate the movement of an installation to a new building when conditions demand?

And there’s more: Robots can take full advantage of a warehouse’s vertical cube, require less costly smaller buildings that are more easily located in proximity to vendors and customers, and concurrently handle retail, wholesale and e-commerce channels. 

Essential insights into the above topics will help readers center their business cases not just on a few individual distribution centers, but on the entire supply chain.

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