For 20 years, AutoStore™ has provided the industry’s highest-density cube-based automated storage and retrieval system. The solution of today is the company’s micro-fulfillment center at the grocery store level. Flexibility in grid design provides the highest utilization of available space including unusual configurations.
AutoStore MFCs combines award-winning design with high-volume throughput becoming ultra-optimized to meet the various needs of retailers across multiple industries, particularly today’s e-grocery demand. State-of-the-art improvements to the robot and workstation modules provide retailers the tools they need to provide 24/7 service.
AutoStore MFCs enables retailers to stay close to their customers and run an extremely efficient e-commerce fulfillment alongside a more customer-centric store.
Key Features
- 4x More Products: AutoStore MFCs provide grocers with four times the storage capacity in the same footprint as manual storage. With substantial space-savings, grocery retailers can adapt and customize existing store space and backroom for storage, based on their needs. Grocers can increase the online inventory available to customers, leading to larger baskets.
- Curbside & Last-Mile Delivery: With faster order-fulfillment through an AutoStore MFC than manual picking, grocers meet today’s customers’ growing demands and expectations of same-day delivery and immediate local-store pick-up. These collection options include pre-picked orders in-store, curbside pick-up, or home delivery.
- Better Customer Experience: Utilizing an AutoStore MFC solution, grocers remove the congestion from store aisles resulting from manual in-store fulfillment or third-party shoppers. This provides a more enjoyable experience for in-store customers while online shoppers experience faster service. Grocers also have increased visibility when it comes to inventory control, reducing the number of out-of-stock items online shoppers see. And with no single point of failure design and a global uptime of 99.6%, AutoStore is always ready for the next order and ensures grocers have access to 100% of their stock.
Company Product Description
eCommerce growth in grocery retailing continues to expand. To remain competitive, grocery retailers require a presence across many channels – stores, online, social networking and mobile. Same-day delivery and immediate local-store pick-up are no longer perks for consumers. They are expectations.
eCommerce fulfillment presents a significant challenge for hypermarkets, supermarkets, and discounters. Managing grocery eCommerce fulfillment from regional distribution centers cannot accommodate the demands of today’s consumers, nor can it sustain cost efficiency.
The Solution: Micro-fulfillment at the grocery store level.
Benefits for Customers:
Customers can decide their preferred option to collect pre-picked orders in-store, curbside, or through home delivery.
Let customers collect their online purchases at a time best for them from a self-service pick-up point.
Allow customers to decide their preferred service level in-store with the confidence that the automated storage and retrieval system will provide a full self-service experience.
What it means for Retailers:
- Consolidate eCommerce orders in less than 10 minutes and prepare an order for pickup for customers or last-mile delivery companies to collect at any time.
- The high-density storage is allowing better utilization of the grocery store space to give customers a better in-store experience.
- Staff picking orders from an AutoStore is highly efficient and needs much less time than walking aisles. It’s accurate and you gain full control of your stock at all times.
- Extend operating hours and complete the omnichannel experience by making products from online orders available 24/7 from a self-service pick-up point.
This product is a recipient of the product of the year award for 2020
